NCN 45 closed for a year

[rogerzilla]

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23751427.key-cycle-route-swindon-closed-year-big-diversions/#comments-anchor

Would this be acceptable on a motorway?

In mitigation, it's a rubbish gravel/mud Sustrans path that we use about once a year when it hasn't rained for a whole month.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Is that the section up to Cricklade?

[andyoxon]

"Thames Water to install new pipework"  So it seems the council is allowing Thames Water an easy option of digging up a cycle route to install it's infrastructure - 'only cyclists'.   

[Rod Marton]

That's a pity. I don't use it often as it's not on my direct route, but it's a pleasant ride and unusually scenic for Swindon. Goes past the sewage works. It's not as if they couldn't dig their trench parallel to the cycle path - there's plenty of room - but obviously they prefer the easier access of the path.

Is Thamesdown Drive going to be closed for a year too?

[Cudzoziemiec]

"Unusually scenic for Swindon. Goes past the sewage works."
POTD?

[DuncanM]

Will they surface it properly after they finish?  Maybe it could be leveraged to make the path better?