[OSM-talk] Wide tracks with cycle access
Stephen Gower
socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li
Thu May 1 10:39:23 BST 2008
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:39:15PM +0100, 80n wrote:
>
> bicycle=yes and surface=gravel are an incompatible combination in my book ;)
There's gravel and there's gravel though - pea gravel like my
grandfather had on his drive (in the New Forest!) and had to rake
after cars had been over it is absolutely no good for cycling,
while a self-binding gravel such as seen on
http://www.pavingexpert.com/gravel05.htm is perfectly fine. I
cycle a section of the Thames Path on my daily commute that comes
into the latter category, and apart from the puddles tending to get
larger each time it rains, it's just as good as the asphalt
sections.
The cycle paths in the New Forest are somewhere in between these
two categories - while the Thames Path one could reasonably be
labeled surface=dirt, the New Forest ones are definitely gravel,
but it's well compacted and many of them will be cycled on by
hundreds of people a week during the summer.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/35904
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/388784
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/35915
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/87018
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/381057
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:New_Forest_Cycle_path.jpg
From these photos it can be seen that there's quite a variety even
within the National Park and depending on your style of bike you
might want to avoid some or all of them.
s
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