I don't like the focus on psyclepaths, unless they are free of peds and dogs, regularly swept, gritted in winter, and maintain priority when crossing side roads. And that's never going to happen. Even the London cycle superhighways require you to wait for aeons at lights.
If you make your way up to Mordor you can try our blue route.
I'm becoming increasingly suspicious that the A38 cycleway was a fluke, particularly with regard to priority at junctions (which, for non-Middle-Earthians, it gets right - to the point where you risk being driven at by confused motorists). The A34 route (which doesn't go anywhere) is a bit more stop-start, and the continuation of the A38 route at the top of Silly Oak involves long waits and beg buttons. If that wasn't sufficient evidence that the council's clue about cycle infra was transient, there's also the planned access road for the new
SCIENCE park off the Silly Oak bypass, where the legacy shared-use bollocks will give way to the multi-lane(!) access road where it joins the roundabout in a series of tight turns with, presumably, tacticle paving of doom.
If the nice Mr Boardman feels like coming down and telling them how to do it properly, he would be most welcome.
