Linthorpe Road Cycle Path

ChrisTheRed said:
Well I'll never cycle to town, I'll just go elsewhere be be that Teesside Park or somewhere else.
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I don't know where you live but there must be other routes into town if you need to take your car. I live in Linthorpe so I can use Roman Rd/Ayrsome Green Lane down to Newport Roundabout. If you live in the South of the town you can use the A19/A66.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
I don't know where you live but there must be other routes into town if you need to take your car. I live in Linthorpe so I can use Roman Rd/Ayrsome Green Lane down to Newport Roundabout. If you live in the South of the town you can use the A19/A66.
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We're talking about convenience. If I just want to pop to a shop or whatever than I'm not going to cycle and I'm also not going park on the otherside of town. This was all put through in a darkened room with no real consultation. The shops and restaurants will end up losing out massively... As if the town centre wasn't bad enough as it is.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
Is the point not to encourage more cycling and public transport and lessen our addiction to the car?
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Yea great idea, "come everyone and cycle into town, then attempt to ride home with your shopping bags on your handlebars (if your bike hasn't been nicked)"! Or...alternatively, use public transport, that is completely unreliable, full of all kinds of crazy characters and also spews tonnes of lovely diesel fumes into the air (unlike your hybrid car).

Give it a rest.
 
asredastheycome said:
Look at Southfield Road being paved over a complete waste of time. For what reason to safeguard a few students with their headphones on and their faces glued to their phone screens.
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Southfield Rd is a fantastic space now. It links up the Uni, the areas outside the pubs are far better and there is a big open space with an outdoor screen. The Uni are spending £300m on that area on new buildings and nobody misses the road.
 
So if you want to drive into town early evening with a couple of kids to go to Akbar's or any of the other restaurants, where do you park ?
Will absolutely destroy some of the businesses down there...I despair of the decision making in this town !
 
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As a cyclist, I can't imagine wanting to go shopping on my bike.
Apart from a handful of commuters I can't see these lanes being used much, and we'll probably end up spending the same amount again on reversing the decision in a few years time.
 
Some much potential with these pedestrianised areas but we fail to use them. I just hope the underground car park brainwave for the MENA area is shoite canned.
 
Man_On said:
Yea great idea, "come everyone and cycle into town, then attempt to ride home with your shopping bags on your handlebars (if your bike hasn't been nicked)"! Or...alternatively, use public transport, that is completely unreliable, full of all kinds of crazy characters and also spews tonnes of lovely diesel fumes into the air (unlike your hybrid car).

Give it a rest.
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It's mainly restaurants and takeaways, nobody does a major shop on Linthorpe Rd. It seems that things that are taken for granted all over Europe are seen as impossible in the UK.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
Southfield Rd is a fantastic space now. It links up the Uni, the areas outside the pubs are far better and there is a big open space with an outdoor screen. The Uni are spending £300m on that area on new buildings and nobody misses the road.
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"Pubs" - there's only Dickens left now isn't there?
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
It's mainly restaurants and takeaways, nobody does a major shop on Linthorpe Rd. It seems that things that are taken for granted all over Europe are seen as impossible in the UK.
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I think you have missed the point mate. Its the shops (restaurants and takaways as you call them) on Linthorpe rd that will suffer loss of parking so that a cycle lane can run past all of those businesses to GET TO the town centre (where the shopping is done).
 
Man_On said:
I think you have missed the point mate. Its the shops (restaurants and takaways as you call them) on Linthorpe rd that will suffer loss of parking so that a cycle lane can run past all of those businesses to GET TO the town centre (where the shopping is done).
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Linthorpe Rd isn't the only route into town. In Germany the whole stretch would probably be pedestrianised.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
Linthorpe Rd isn't the only route into town. In Germany the whole stretch would probably be pedestrianised.
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'Linthorpe Rd isn't the only route into town'

I'm pretty sure you are on a wind up now like. We are discussing the impact on the businesses ON Linthorpe road which currently have parking outside which will be REMOVED to make way for the cycle lane.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
If that was the case why only use the section between Ayresome Street & Borough Road, why not extend all the way up to the Village?
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Absolutely.
Ideally you'd have them all the way from Nunthorpe down Marton Road, all along Acklam Road, with cross connections.
You've got to connect areas so people know the whole of their journey will be safe.
 
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