Wroxham To Horning Cycle Path

[MikeO]

Could you write the script???

What is the last thing you would want in the middle of a cycle path - yes, a post for a road sign.

 

 

How many brain cells are needed to know this won't work

 

[imtamping2]

Need another sign on that post               "cyclists keep left "

[Broadsword]

Astonishing...  Bewildering even...

[Polly]

Cyclists duck?

[BroadScot]

Awe that is the cyclist version of Potter H bridge, needs a proper arch though !

[ExUserGone]

The sign should read 'No fat cyclists'

[ranworthbreeze]

What ever happened to a workman's common sense? or does that not apply to signage

Regards

Alan 

[JennyMorgan]

Whatever Bewilderwood wants Bewilderwood gets.

Alan, I'd go further up the food chain for the one lacking in common sense, the workman was only doing as he was instructed. Next week he might be told to take it down again, it's what keeps food on his table.

[Guest]

I'm afraid you're all jumping to the wrong conclusions here.

Although commonsense is often missing with signage, they're innocent in this instance, (so far).

When the sign was erected, both posts were  clear of the footpath, in the grass verge, as this Google street view shows.

The 3RW workforce have now stripped off the grass verge in preparation to widen the existing tarmac footpath, but have not surfaced it yet. They appear to be waiting till they've cleared the whole length, to then presumably do it all in one lay.

It may not look it, but it is exactly the same location and signposts, about 50 metres West of the Bewilderwood entrance, facing East. (The sign itself has changed since the Google Street view photo, but the posts haven't.)

Of course, if they leave it like that after they've tarmacked it, then we can have a good laugh.....

 

[MikeO]

I wish that were the case.

The original sign and posts were removed and later replaced with brand new posts and sign. They may be in the same position but they are new!

[JennyMorgan]

No doubt that the posts look both taller and further apart. Perhaps Bewilderwood is now catering for taller and wider cyclists.

[Guest]

Yes, the posts have indeed been renewed as well, but that was also before the path was widened.

The Google earth photo showed the old posts in 2012, and this still from a video taken from the other direction in 2014 showing the new posts with the old sign.

The giveaway is the black sections at to the bottom both posts, unlike the original posts where the roadside post was grey down to the ground.

I drive or cycle past that sign every day from when it first appeared when Bewilderwood was created.

[Guest]

Hang on, I apologise, you're quite right.

I've just checked my dashcam footage from last Sunday, and the posts do indeed look brand new, shiny and with a very clear black bottom edge, so it appears that they have been replaced yet again.

It does look pretty stupid.....

[Vaughan]

I always thought this wonderful new public investment was supposed to offer greater protection and safety?

Whether or not it is actually "on" the path, I wouldn't want to cycle into that on a dark night!