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Driving past the golf course down to Teignmouth on Saturday, I passed two individual cyclists 50m apart. It would have been much easier to pass them if they had been riding two abreast (just the one overtake to make then).

Lisa
Lisa
11 Mar 2019

@Epicurus ..........there was a road bike race/event that passed through Dawlish around lunchtime on Sat 9th.

Thats true, he hanged himself in prision.

majorp
majorp
11 Mar 2019

There is some sketchy news that a 26 year old male hanged himself yesterday, it appears that he also had a four month old youngster.

As the parliamentarians are not willing to carry out the will of the people through the democratic vote, then here is  another way  not as yet  suggested, and that being as Cromwell did the Disolving And closing this  institution called Parliament. After all if those members want to be ruled by the E.U. Then there is no reason to having a Governing body in  London. P.S would  they mind ...

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TheObserver
TheObserver
11 Mar 2019

All I can say is, if every cyclist paid £20 tax a year to be on the road, we would end up as a country over 34 million the richer.

@Cassandra and @Dil - becareful, your posts look like you are threating Deedoodle..... I spoke to a tourist working for Talk Talk the other day too and they confirmed all was down.

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Lynne
Lynne
11 Mar 2019

Accrording to this https://www.sustrans.org.uk/news/dawlish-businesses-benefit-cycle-trail-extends-town it was £1.3million from the Government's Coastal Community Fund that paid for it.

majorp
majorp
10 Mar 2019

It was EU money that paid for it. And now (I believe that funding has dried up) will DCC continue to complete it. Where do they go when they have reached Dawlish?

Epicurus
Epicurus
10 Mar 2019

Walked to the Warren yesterday. On the way back (at about lunchtime) between the Marina and 2n'4 we counted 57 cyclists. Four of them were using the cycle path (in my experience an unusually high number). Theremaining 53 were in gaggles (some 2 or 3 abreast) or riding individually on the road causing tailbacks of crawling traffic. The ones using the cycle path looked like locals whereas all the ...