Re: Bike Paths or Towpaths next to the Canal.

  The Towpaths here are built for the long distance bikers and are 
also used by snowmobiles in the winter. Bikers and Boaters are two 
distict groups. One is the bikers who going cross the country and 
are usind the paths to get across New York nad stay off  the busy 
roads and the other are Boaters who go from town to town and lock to 
lock. Some conflict happens when bikers want to use some of the 
showers or the same faciltys as boaters.. The NY canal system is 
built to acommidate both and markets it self to both. There is 
little congestion as the system is 500 miles long and there is 
plenty of room

http://www.canals.state.ny.us/maps/index.html

--- In canals-list-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Phillips 
<martin@...> 
wrote:
>
> In message <p4eqh25jkboqqfaejrficr0h56qme8atu7@...>, Adrian Stott 
> <gja@...> writes
> >
> >However, the increasing use of towpaths by non-boater bicyclists 
is
> >controversial.  Too many of them tend to ride too fast and
> >insufficiently courteously for the safety and comfort of other 
towpath
> >users (not just boaters; anglers, mothers with prams, folk in
> >wheelchairs, just plain walkers, etc.).
> >
> On a scale of annoyance, I don't think discourteous cyclists are 
any 
> more obnoxious than walkers who spread out over the whole towpath, 
> fisherfolk who block the path with poles and assorted hardware, 
boaters 
> who stretch mooring ropes across the path and run generators, dogs 
for 
> existing, kids for throwing stones and just about any other branch 
of 
> animal or human kind for being there before me.
> 
> >The disgruntlement may almost have reached the level where 
something
> >will be done about it.  Maybe.
> 
> I have not had a good day.
> 
> Wassail!
> -- 
> Martin E Phillips      http://www.g4cio.demon.co.uk
> Homebrewing, black pudding, boats, morris dancing, ham radio and 
more!
> The Gloucester-Sharpness canal web page http://www.glos-
sharpness.org.uk
>







 
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