Road-building madness

Coming back from Dover via the M25 and M1 on the European Bike Express after cycle-camping in the Moselle valley, we were struck by the huge amount of road building going on in the south east of England.

Oil’s running out, and there’s not enough land to grow food and biofuel crops. So let’s spend money and energy on road building.

Oh well, all that new tarmac will make wonderful cycle paths one day soon.

Towpath stoppage in Chester until 11th June 07

Post from Alec

Just discovered that there's useful info about cycling on the British Waterways' leisure site (www.waterscape.com) - including towpath closures on the Cheshire Cycleway and elsewhere:

Chester
16 Apr 2007 - 11 Jun 2007

Towpath Closure - South View at Tower Wharf and Blacon Ave Bridge 129
A section of the Shropshire Union Canal towpath in Chester will be closed temporarily to allow work to take place on mains replacement work to the city's gas supply. Closed to pedestrians from Monday 16th April for eight weeks. This is to enable National Grid to undertake the works. Towpath closure notices with diversions will be put in place while signage is already in place informing local communities of the works.

Kidsgrove railway station - correction to website entry

Post from Val:
Coming back from London on the train yesterday, I realised that the footbridge at Kidsgrove is continuous across both tracks, but on our Cheshire Cycleway website we've said there are two footbridges. So good news that there's only flight of steps to lug the bike up, not two as we had thought (memory must be going - aaaaaaaaah).