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Transcription: a photo of a shared pathway entrance with a series of steel pipes placed to create very narrow pathways to enter. The width is hard to tell from the angle of the photo, but far too narrow for a wheelchair or bicycle to fit.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Supposedly it's to keep motorbikes out.

But when your design also forces bikes to be lifted up, cuts out wheelchairs and even fat people...it's astonishing to me that any government department could think this was OK.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Motorbikes will 100% go round via that patch of dirt next to it.

~~I reckon (could be way wrong) that you could get a bicycle through by turning the handlebars 90 degrees in either direction so they slip through the thin bit and the bit at the bottom is wider so the wheel could go through as long as you lift it and roll the bike on its back wheel. Thats still really rubbish if that’s the design tho.~~ edit: nevermind, I was looking at it wrong. I don’t think that works.

I doubt a wheelchair is getting through there anyway anyhow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Apparently it's not finished yet and they might end up fencing it off to prevent going around in the dirt.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If it's tp keep motorbikes out then it has failed anyway because it stops at the edge of the path, and leaves plenty of room to drive a motorbike around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They haven't finished. It will be fenced to the edges.