No, this is not a freeway, it’s the shared footpath path in Camperdown Rest Memorial Park. The line markings have just appeared, making it an official cycle route. As you can see from the photo, pedestrians are not keeping left unless overtaking.
 
I have only recently taken to bicycles, and I am horrified at [...]

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This is the footpath I walk past every day to get to the street. It’s nice, huh? Today I was pushing Finn in the stroller down this very path, when the stroller hit an obstacle. “Ugh! Ugh!” I grunted, as I rammed and pushed the wheels over the pesky lump. Lump? Why would there be [...]

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silly shoes on snowy footpath
 
Footpaths in Krakow are generally either crooked, have broken stones, are made of slippery cobble and carry plenty of dog poo. I generally dislike them. Cars take up most of the space on them, curbs are too high for prams and bikes to manoeuvre comfortably on and wheelchairs are never seen [...]

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Footpaths. Some roads only have one running down them (how annoying is that?!), some are mossy, some house junk waiting to be given a new more appreciative home, some have bird mosaics on them….

These beauties are on the corner of Adanac Street and Lakewood Drive along the ‘Mosaic’ cycleway that runs through East Vancouver. [...]

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