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HS2 - a good news bike story
Had a surprise on the ride today. Riding from Long Itchington to Offchurch we came on an HS2 road closure. We plodded on, looking askance at our ride leader, contemplating the 5 mile detour and got to the actual works on the Fosse Way, and there's the magic sign:
ROAD CLOSED EXCEPT FOR CYCLISTS
spirits lifted, we carried on and we found indeed the road was closed and impassible, but to the left was a purpose built temporary cycle lane, nice and smooth with a supervised crossing across the works access.
Amazing!
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I'm glad that something good has come out of HS2 - even if it was only for you, then!
It's even more amazing when you know the amount of unnecessary closures we've had to deal with, and one mate got a broken collar bone from hitting ballast dropped on the road from their tunnelling site on the Welsh Road.