A bumpy ride for controversial path?

A CYCLE campaign group is among those at odds with Swansea Council about a shared-use path coming to woods in Killay.

- RICHARD YOULE Senior local democracy reporter [e-mail]

Swansea Bay cycle campaign group Wheelrights wrote on Facebook that it strongly encouraged the council not to Tarmac the route - Old Carriage Drive in the Clyne Valley - but to focus instead on safe segregated routes in urban areas with little or no such provision.

“For example, the roads between Penclawdd and Gowerton, and across Clyne Common are busy roads with cyclists having to share the road with vehicles travelling at 40mph,’ said the post, which added that the group had never requested a Tarmac resurfacing of Old Carriage Drive.

The group said it felt “scarce and diminishing resources” should be used more effectively to improve cycle links where needs were urgent.

The picturesque woodland route is a bridleway starting at the end of Clyne Valley Road and finishing 750m to the east where it joins existing shared-use paths leading to Rhyd-Y-Defaid Drive, Sketty, Ynys Newydd Road, Derwen Fawr, and Gower Road, Killay.