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No Cycling

For about 60 years this was a footpath which provided a shortcut from the town to a housing estate. There was a prohibition order banning cycling on this path and the railings served to emphasise the serious intent. I don't know if there was ever a prosecution; many times I saw cyclists ignoring the ban with impunity. Then recently the railings were removed and the path widened. The prohibition order was revoked and lines were painted on the new tarmac delineating where cyclists should cycle and walkers should walk. It all seemed a bit pointless really.
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4 comments

Steve Bucknell said:

The realms of the pointless and ephemeral are vast and deep. It’s the great *Italo-Byzantine Vacuity we inhabit, as you well know.
14 months ago

The Limbo Connection replied to Steve Bucknell:

It is beneficial to my equilibrium to see the Vacuity being mentioned here, and, moreover, complete with its essential asterisk and dynamic hyphen.
It was an unwelcome shock when this still juvenile no-cycling footpath was transformed into the ramblers' equivalent of a dual-carriageway inner relief road. It's comparable to your favourite pothole being filled in or planning permission being granted for housing and retail development of the Alderman What's-His-Name memorial playing fields.
14 months ago

Andrew Trundlewagon said:

I think this might be a recurrent story. Someone complained, and then someone thought something should be done, and then someone else complained about the thing that had been done and after a long period of “insouciant thumb sucking” and allowing that the someone who rolled the ball in the first place had most likely forgotten or shuffled off, that first something was undone, but to save face and acknowledge that a problem remained, something new was done, resetting the clock for someone else to complain. An endless cycle.
13 months ago

The Limbo Connection replied to Andrew Trundlewagon:

Having rediscovered this picture and read your perspicacious comment afresh, the depressing feeling I am left with is that public money can be, and often is, wantonly wasted when it could be far better spent on things which truly improve the quality of life.
6 months ago
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