Photo listing : other (good practice)
The most recent photos are listed first. See also photomap view.
[Image taken 17.11.21] Railway Walk, Marygate car park, York. [Note: No street view at this location.] Cutting foliage has improved sight lines. Context: #175981 and links.
[Image taken 13.11.21] Monks Cross retail park, Monks Cross, Huntington, York. [NOTE: streetview shows the previous site layout.] Last year the Minster Lions fundraising rig (see: #157151) was more ‘Blocking Rudolf’ than Rocking Rudolf ... [more]
[Image taken 8.11.21] Blake Street, York. Half of a notice for a possibly abandoned cycle. Other half: #175638. It’s reassuring to know the racks – Sheffields – are checked (see also: #171434) not least as they are oversubscribed. The ... [more]
[Image taken 8.11.21] Blake Street, York. Other half of a notice on a possibly abandoned cycle. See: #175637 and links.
[Image taken 29.10.21] Gillygate, York, direction of Bootham (right), St Leonard's Place (ahead). This early green went live this week. Other images today: #175350 and links.
[Image taken 24.10.21] York rail station, York. Free water dispensers have now come to York. They reduce plastic waste as you supply the container. (Ideally one you can you over and over.) This one is on the main concourse. There’s a seco ... [more]
There are regular water points along this section of the Via Francigena south from Radicofani, with clear indications of the distance to the next one.
[Image taken 18.10.21] Bootham Row, York. The image shows the need for wider spacing or positioning racks so the ends can be used by other longer and wider designs. The owner says it’s the only one – so far – in the city; that it does ... [more]
[Image taken 17.10.21] York railway station, York. [NOTE: No streetview at this location.] Hurrah! At last the two underpasses have imagery in them. The photos are of places along the LNER route. Several years ago I did a walk around with a ... [more]
[Image taken 13.10.21] York railway station, York at entrance from Scarborough Bridge. [NOTE: No streetview at this location.] Location of a poster about cycle marking on the coming weekend. It's well placed to catch the attention of the ma ... [more]
[Image taken 13.10.21] York railway station, York at entrance from Scarborough Bridge/riverside routes. [NOTE: No streetview at this location.] Poster alerting cyclists to an upcoming cycle marking session. Location see: #174983. Other imag ... [more]
Good advice on road positioning at junctions from Cycling UK. https://www.cyclinguk.org/road-position Shot in this part of Guildford. https://twitter.com/wearecyclinguk/status/1446385167090790466
[Image taken 29.9.21] Peasholme Green, junction with St Saviour’s Place and Aldwark, York. Bill one of the Edible York (www.edibleyork.org.uk/) volunteers. This herb bed “sequesters CO2 as well as providing food”, he told me. It also ... [more]
[Image taken: 16.9.21] Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.] NOTE: No streetview at this location. Position approximate.] Cycling is permitted on the castle walls. As is walking. But as there are two rings - pedestrians tend to use the short ... [more]
[Image taken 17.9.21] Scarborough Bridge, York. [NOTE: No streetview at this location] Another cyclist alerted me to this chap doing a survey on the bridge this week. Great to be asked my opinion of something that is really good. The access ... [more]
[Image taken 5.9.21] Bootham Stray, York. [Note: No street view at this location.] Warm, bright evening, the last day before the start of the new school term for many. How to make the best of it? Go brambling (picking blackberries). How do ... [more]
[Image taken 3.9.21] Vicar Lane, Bradford. [Note: No streetview here.] Ah, taxis can be electric and therefore need charging points too. I haven't spotted any dedicated bays in York, yet. Other images today: #173801 and links
[Image taken 2.8.21] A Northern Rail service to Leeds from York via Starbeck - the Streetview station shown - and Harrogate. Flexible space (tip up seats and the 'supports' that protruded from the white item have been removed at least on th ... [more]
Bicycle Tool Kit serving the twin towns of Ballybofey and Stranorlar in County Donegal. Instructions in both English and Irish.
[Image taken 20.7.21] Marygate car park, York. [Note: No street view at this location.] The Network Rail employee removed this split bag (therefore redundant and a trip hazard) on his own initiative. Context image: #172322. Other images tod ... [more]
[Image taken 18.7.21] Nidderdale Greenway, Starbeck-Harrogate(Bilton)-Ripley. [Note: No street view at this location.] (www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/nidderdale-greenway-harrogate-to-ripley-cycle-route) Pro ... [more]
[Image taken 13.7.21] Exhibition Square, York. Transformation. Including Buzz About York planters (see link on: #170586). Compare with #160828 and links. I'd still like to see table tennis offered in the city centre year round. There's usua ... [more]
[Image taken 13.7.21] Parliament Street, York. Table tennis in the city centre. Part of the Summer of Sport (until Sunday 5 September 2021) www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19433194.york-embraces-summer-sport/ Alas, these are nothing to do with me ... [more]
[Image taken 28.6.21] Denning’s Yard access, York (between the junction of Crichton Avenue and Wigginton Road.) Wildflowers make the area attractive for all users between the Foss Islands Path (www.itravelyork.info/downloads/file/18/leisu ... [more]
[Image taken 27.6.21] Hazel Court, York. This really is a great innovation from City of York Council. A queue of motorists back to James Street and on both approaches to the Hazel Court turning. On a cycle we could bypass the motor vehicles ... [more]
[Image taken 27.6.21] Hazel Court, York. Cyclist and pedestrian-only part of the municipal recycling centre. Bins for most types of recycling and some waste. Hazel Court today see also: #170920 and links
MAV (Hungarian Railways) has adapted some old diesel railcars to serve as cycle trailers, as Scotrail is (slowly) doing with its Class 153 railcars. (Notional location)
[Image taken 25.6.21] Hall Ings, Bradford. Bradford Capital of Cycling is split across two sites - see also: #170654 and links. This building has work areas in the windows. During the day you can see volunteer mechanics working on cycles. T ... [more]
[Image taken 23.6.21] Rougier Street, York. The June 2021 newsletter of the York Cycle Campaign and the blog on the website (https://yorkcyclecampaign.bike/blog/) alerted members to this campaign (https://twitter.com/YorkCycle/status/139720 ... [more]
[Image taken 21.6.21] Iron bridge over the Leeds-York line linking Woodfield Close (Bilton) and Claro Road, Harrogate. Mural painted April 2021. See also: #170566. 'Woodfield Primary' is Woodfield Community Primary School whose pupils you c ... [more]
[Image taken 21.6.21] Iron bridge over the Leeds-York line linking Woodfield Close (Bilton) and Claro Road, Harrogate. Mural (see also: #170567) painted April 2021. https://thestrayferret.co.uk/bilton-bridge-mural-to-lift-communitys-spirits ... [more]
The footbridge destroyed in Storm Desmond in 2015 will be rebuilt as a foot and cycle bridge linking the centre of Kendal with NCN route 6.
[Image taken 30.5.21] Scarborough Bridge, York. Looking along the ped-cycle bridge from the train station end. Compare with this image of the previous bridge: #169478. More images of this bridge today: #169805, and links
[Image taken 30.5.21] Scarborough Bridge, York. The bridge opened to the public in April 2019: www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/17584357.yorks-scarborough-bridge-finally-reopens-4-4m-revamp/. The official opening was a couple of months later: https ... [more]
[Image taken 30.5.21] Scarborough Bridge, York. Panoramic image at the Marygate car park end. More images of this bridge today: #169805, and links
[Image taken 30.5.21] Scarborough Bridge, York. The 2019 iteration enhances the riverscape for all users including trip boat passengers. You can see into/onto the bridge. The previous version was like an iron trough. More images of this bri ... [more]
[Image taken 30.5.21] Scarborough Bridge, York. The previous bridge also spanned the river Ouse but there were steep steps at each end to/from the riversides: #169479, #169481. This Scarborough Bridge runs directly to/from the train station ... [more]
[Image taken 29.5.21] Scarborough Bridge, York. Wildflowers either side of the steeper of the two slopes down towards the route that passes between Marygate car park and the York-Scarborough rail line. See also: #169771 and links.
[Image taken 29.5.21] Scarborough Bridge, York. The Marygate car park side of the bridge is planted with (what I think of as) wild flowers. This is the view at the top of the descent. See also here today: #169772. 'Blooms' at other location ... [more]
[Image taken 24.5.21] Marygate car park. The hoardings not only make the area oppressive and unsafe-feeling (a reminder of the bad old days of the previous Scarborough Bridge: #169478) but they also block the little light left. (There was i ... [more]
[Image taken 19.5.21] Layerthorpe, York. City of York Council has replaced the slotted grating in the carriageway with a grille. I believe this is the safe pattern for carriageway drainage. The previous design was a hazard for people on cyc ... [more]
[Image taken 16.5.21] Rowntree Park, York. There are two table tennis tables in this park. There is around 211cm between the table and the seating. This is comfortable and practical. See also: #167766 and links
[Image taken 12.5.21] Bishopthorpe Road, York. Steps with slopes on both sides for wheeling a cycle to/from a car park. See also: #168823
[Image taken 4.4.21] Near New Bridge Lane, York. This 'self service' noticeboard always looks well used. It is likely much cheaper to source, install and maintain than the glass fronted ones administered by the wards. I often stop and look ... [more]
[Image taken 18.3.21] [Image taken 18.3.21] Glass Bridge, York between Scarborough Terrace and Bridge Lane. Looking towards the Bridge Lane end. See also #168589 and links.
[Image taken 18.3.21] York, Glass Bridge, York over York-Scarborough rail line. The image shows the Bridge Lane end. (The top of the steps is on the left.) The painting was made in mid-March 2021. See also #168589 and links.
[Image taken 18.3.21] [Image taken 18.3.21] Bridge Lane end of Glass Bridge, York. See also #168589 and links.
[Image taken 18.3.21] Detail of painting on Glass Bridge, York, looking towards the Scarborough Terrace end. See also #168589 and links.
[Image taken 18.3.21] Glass Bridge, York. The intimidating view of the ‘Glass Bridge’ as it’s known locally is mitigated this end by pink blooms on a white background. https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19161449.nhs-heroes-feature-hospi ... [more]
[Image taken 2.3.21] The hoardings at York St John University, York are attractive but also informative. This section provides a timeline of the University. See also: #165292, #165293, #165295, #165297. (For all the hoardings images I've pu ... [more]
[Image taken 2.3.21] York St John University, York uses the hoardings to promote itself and its achievements to all who pass by: staff, visitors, students, people working on the construction site. See also: #165292, #165293, #165294, #16529 ... [more]
[Image taken 26.2.21] Marygate carpark, York. Compost John on the original traffic-free all users route through Marygate carpark. On the other side of the low fencing is a 4.5m covid-19 popup corridor carved out of the car park and put in p ... [more]
[Image taken 23.2.21] York - transporting domestic compost by bike. Depositing the compost at the designated area Greenfields Community Garden. See also #164366, #164367, #164368, #164369
[Image taken 23.2.21] York - transporting domestic compost by bike. Approaching the composting area Greenfields Community Garden. See also #164366, #164367, #164368, #164370
[Image taken 23.2.21] York - transporting domestic compost by bike. The storage container and a view of some of the Greenfields Community Garden. See also #164366, #164367, #164369, #164370
[Image taken 23.2.21] York - transporting domestic compost by bike. Arrival at Greenfields Community Garden. See also #164366, #164368, #164369, #164370
[Image taken 23.2.21] We don't have a garden. We don't want to put compostable kitchen waste into landfill though. So we have a composter. When it fills up, we bag up some of the contents and carry it in our cycle trailer from home - this i ... [more]
The C5018 from Nibthwaite to Monk House, along the east side of Coniston Water, was closed to motor vehicles for the summer of 2020 as traffic jams and badly parked cars made access impossible for emergency vehicles. It will probably be clo ... [more]
South Bend, Indiana, where Mayor Pete Buttigieg supported a "Smart Streets" program that addressed the needs of bikers and pedestrians instead of solely centring on cars. www.southbendin.gov/initiative/safe-streets/
Rapid video Tottenham Court Road to London Fields Hackney LTN https://twitter.com/iambrianjones/status/1343976392518750209?s=21
Marygate Car Park gained a 'popup' social distancing covid-19 corridor in summer 2020. [But see update: #168548] It is coned off from the remaining parking area - the strip to the right of the wooden fencing, bound by the cones. It represen ... [more]
SarisInfrastructure Deluxe Public Repair Station, from Mad About Bikes grant program for improving bike access in underserved neighborhoods, installed Oct. 27, 2020 by JUST Bikes volunteers: Luna's Groceries
SarisInfrastructure Deluxe Public Repair Station, from Mad About Bikes grant program for improving bike access in underserved neighborhoods, installed Oct. 27, 2020 by JUST Bikes volunteers: Cherokee Heights Middle School
SarisInfrastructure Deluxe Public Repair Station, from Mad About Bikes grant program for improving bike access in underserved neighborhoods, installed Oct. 27, 2020 by JUST Bikes volunteers: The Beacon
Plenty of cycle space on this double-deck Regional Express train from Travemunde to Lübeck and Hamburg
Cycleway between Alconbury and Brampton. More photos: https://www.cyclestreets.net/location/152293-152324/
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