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Can't remember exactly where. Haven't been along there for almost a year now. But I know they were there because I remember noticing them and looking up what they meant as I didn't know if the sign meant cycling allowed or cycling not allowed. It was the latter.

27 Jan 2015

New cycle path proposal featured on BBC Spotlight South West this evening.

Just had a phone call from someone stuck in a car in Exeter. Not moving at all. Everything at a standstill. http://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/devon/incidents/road Update: M5 accident had one fatality. Then there was another fatal RTA in Exeter later today. http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Live-Travel-Updates-Chaos-Exeter-roads-collisions/story-25929605-detail/story.html

http://www.dawlishtransition.org.uk/SustainableTravel.html

27 Jan 2015

Glad you appreciate it JC. A thought. And I am not being negative about the cycle link - far from it. My thought is this, we are talking difficulties in getting a safe cycleway into Dawlish town centre right? Hmm........Well, right now the seawall pathway is being made all one level. Nice and flat all the way from Dawlish Warren. See where I am going on this? I know there were 'No ...

27 Jan 2015

Yes, I totally agree that it does seem to have taken a huge amount of time to get a cycle path all the way along this side of the estuary and then on and into Dawlish. Still, almost there now...

27 Jan 2015

Yes a really good article. But, ahem, OMG! Look what the writer's gone and done! She's only advertising the Dawlish Warren NNR and Exe Estuary RSPB reserves as places to visit. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Whatever will TDC and East Devon District Councils have to say about that eh? And I wonder if the authorities in Brussels and Westminster are aware that people, yes, people!, are being ...

Perhaps he thought it a truth universally acknowledged?

26 Jan 2015

Not my idea. Think it came originally from Mcjrpc. I give it a 'plug' whenever I can because I think it is such an excellent concept.

26 Jan 2015

Two black swans facing each other. One has one end of a piece of weed in its mouth, the other swan has the other end. Except that on closer inspection the weed isn't weed at all - it's a dangling in mid-air bit of mangled rail line which was, and is, the iconic picture of the rail line at Dawlish after last year's storms. Combine black swans with iconic image of mangled rail line and what ...