A Chipping Sodbury, Dodington & Yate Cycling Network

Approaching Shire Way and Yate from Westerleigh. Path to pass under left hand side railway arch

A Chipping Sodbury, Dodington & Yate Cycling Network A note considering the opportunities arising from the opening of the new path linking Shire Way, in the south west corner of Yate, with the Bristol and Bath Railway path from Emersons Green

Revised draft updated after discussions John Grimshaw CBE September 2013 The Wool Hall, 12 St Thomas Street, Bristol BS1 6JJ A CHIPPING SODBURY, DODINGTON & YATE CYCLING NETWORK SEPTEMBER 2013 • PAGE 2

Yate - A Cycling Town – September 2013 A note considering the opportunities arising from the opening of the new path linking Shire Way, in the south west corner of Yate, with the Bristol and Bath Railway path from Emersons Green

1. Background The Bristol and Bath Railway Path was completed from City Centre to City Centre in 1984 and right from its earliest days has generated a large popular usage. This 16 mile long traffic free route demonstrated that the public will cycle if they are given the opportunity of attractive routes free from conflict with traffic. Over 1 million cycling trips are made on this route each year (and an equally large number of walking journeys) and this critical mass of cyclists acted as a catalyst to support the ongoing programme of cycling provision in the area.

Right from its inception, both campaigners and the Council recognised the Path opening at Coxgrove Hill, July 2012 value of connecting through to Yate and indeed the first part of the route from Mangotsfield Station to Coxgrove Hill (for Pucklechurch) was opened by 1986. Land negotiation, especially that of securing the Railways agreement to pass The Council opened the section through to Westerleigh Road by Easter 2013, and under the M4 at Westerleigh Railhead, proved daunting and it was not until 2012 plan to press on to reach Yate during 2014. that work could commence. In July 2012, Councillor Janet Biggin opened the first This note considers how to make the best use of this new path – not only as a 800m of the link northwards built by Pucklechurch Parish Council Access Group resource in its own right, but as a catalyst for raising the profile of cycling and nits volunteers working with South Gloucestershire staff, and the way under the M4 popularity throughout the area of Yate. was finally fenced through.

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Map showing the Yate and Shortwood link under construction 2. Cycling in Yate and possible main route connections on into Yate On the face of it one would expect Yate to be a popular place for cycling. It is largely level, and hardly any journeys are more than 2 miles long. But whilst one sees low numbers of cyclists around the town, it is a far cry from what one would find in many European towns of this size where 20-30% of all trips would be by bike. There simply isn’t a cycling culture in the Town. There are probably many reasons for this. Yate was developed in the 1960’s at a time when there was no cycling agenda in the UK. Although it has an excellent network of walking routes, it had no cycling routes at that time so the public became ingrained in to the habit of driving for even local trips to the Town centre. Then many people looked to Bristol or further afield for work, leisure and shopping for which using the car was the only practical route. And Yate is surprisingly isolated from the point of view of a potential cyclist, with many possible routes (especially in the Bristol direction) heavily trafficked and unsuitable for family and novice cyclists. This could all change with the opening of the new, largely traffic free path to Shortwood, Bristol and Bath. There is no reason why it should not prove to be as popular as the original railway path between Bristol and Bath and, for the first time, present Yate residents with an attractive place to cycle, a route suitable for even the most inexperienced people, and a place where people can cycle for the first time and realise just what a convenient and rewarding means of travelling cycling can be. For us to take advantage of this new route we are going to have to make it easy to reach the start of the route at Shire Way. In fact we are going to have to extend the new route to reach through Yate so that it is accessible by as many people as possible, and what is more, visible to them. If we can create popular routes through the Town, on which one often sees people cycling, then the idea will spread that cycling is a good way to travel in Yate.

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3. A possible cycling network for Yate

The current Yate Link path finishes at Shire Way, shortly Map showing suggested cycling routes in the southern half after passing under the main line railway viaduct. of Yate What is required is for the path to continue through to the town centre, serving as much of the population as possible along the way and including other key destinations such as schools or work places. Typical pair of paths through open spaces There are a few useful routes in the area, but they mainly follow the main roads, with only informal connections into residential areas via the use of footpaths. They hardly amount to anything which might be viewed as a popular network for everyday use. A map showing existing routes is available on the latest cycling map of South Gloucestershire but is not shown here. Fortunately the Town’s Radburn principles of layout and planning have resulted in generous amounts of open space with green fingers and their attendant footpaths Typical underpass (although at times a surface stretching throughout the area, including some quite level crossing may be more convenient) well designed underpasses to provide continuity. In many cases there is even a pair of paths through these spaces, one fronting the houses on each side so to speak. Some of these paths are wider than others and may have been intended for informal cycling use from the start. With this resource the most obvious solution is to select a limited number of these paths for shared use and to sign them as such and where necessary make Goose Green Way cycling route improvements to make them more suitable and to give them greater visibility and crucially continuity to the town centre with good priority over road crossings so as to emphasise the community’s desire to see much more of this healthy and sustainable, as well as convenient, way of travel. The suggested routes shown on the map here are arranged to fan out from the Shire Way end of the new path, so as to make it easy for the public to realise its start. But of course these routes will serve many other local everyday functions so they should be seen as the 1 Yate Town Shopping Centre Town’s Strategic Cycling Network. 2 Yate Link Road Development and Cinemas proposals. Inauspicious approach to the Yate Shopping Centre 4. Yate Cycle Routes Project - Apreliminary CHIPPING SODBURY, DODINGTON proposals & YATE CYCLING NETWORK SEPTEMBER 2013 • PAGE 5 This link will also require a crossing of Greenways North Yate to the Town Centre Road – this could be a single stage zebra crossing The northern part of Yate has a number of very useful and similar to the existing one opposite Milton Road – and well in constructed cycling routes. They are short only of a then finally a short link to the existing Templar Road few key connections and defined roads crossings. If these cycle route. are provided as part of the planned new developments then 8. At the same time a link across Wellington Road would the 3kms to the Town Centre should be well within most give access to a very useful and wide path suitable for people’s cycling range. shared use running to the west. New developments will be 3kms from the Town Centre. 9. This crucial crossing of Station Road to reach the They should include 2 core paths leading to the two existing Leisure Centre is discussed on the Town Centre detail. cycling routes. 10. The path crossing Greenways Road here could 1. The key link to getting these routes off to a good start usefully be made shared use including its connection is to make a new path along this open space to lead to Milton Road (which will make for the most direct directly to the Goose Green Way crossing. This will route to the station and Badminton Road) and also the be a huge improvement on the narrow and circuitous path back to Templar Road which needs a crossing to routes available at present. Millhill is a most attractive reach its east side cycle track. site and the proposed route should follow the mown area to the east of the hedge/ditch as far as possible 11. The existing cycling routes are connected across the B4060 by a sequence in the traffic lights. It would be 2. Immediately on leaving the new developments provide helpful if their route was coloured across the road to a crossing of Randolph Avenue and a new path on the further emphasise the legitimate presence of cyclist. desire line through the open space to join up with the existing route. 12. This Toucan light crossing is excellent, but the narrow link path to Goose Green is insignificant and needs to 3. The existing crossing in via a good central island on be reconstructed to an easier gradient. Eastfield Drive. 13. The light controlled crossing to Lawn’s Road is 4. The approaches to this existing Toucan Light crossing sufficiently spacious but the approach paths are poor needs a new ramp coming down from the east to and need reconstructing for shared use. This includes make it’s use as convenient as possible. the narrow bridge over the main road. 5. A marked out and defined priority crossing is needed 14. The existing Toucan over Station Road is useful but to give a good way through to Broad Lane and the links either side are needed to complete this route to school. the Town Centre. 6. Church Road and Goose Green are attractive tree lined 15. The existing cycle paths all collapse at this difficult roads with very little traffic, but the short cut through crossing of Station Road where there is no provision at to Lancaster Road needs attention and opening out. the very point it is needed the most. 7. Although Wellington Road is not particularly busy, 16. Planned site of new development and cinema will be a it would be well worthwhile providing a traffic free powerful influence on details in this area. shared use path on its east side with a raised junction over Lancaster Road all to emphasise that this is the main north/south cycling route in Yate. The footway is already possibly signed for shared use but the path needs to be widened into the available grass verge.

Goose Green crossing to Gravel Hill Road Goose Green link to Lancaster Way 5. Yate Cycle Routes ProjectA CHIPPING - preliminarySODBURY, DODINGTON & YATE proposals CYCLING NETWORK SEPTEMBER 2013 • PAGE 6 car park ends at Station Road to reach The Glen priority raised crossings at each access road, and car park aisles as has been done near the Sports Connecting through to which leads to the St. Mary’s Park route north. planted with avenue trees to make the whole route Centre. Vehicular traffic is all travelling very slowly the Town Centre from the The suggested detail makes use of the fact that an attractive path ending in the rather pretty, but so issues of safety are light. It would though be The Glen, which is a cul-de-sac serving only a little used square at North Parade. Shared use of beneficial for everyone if a reverse parking policy northern side of Yate small area, does not need to exit lanes to Station the existing zebra crossing then connects to the was followed so that everyone reversed into their Road. The left turning one of these can usefully Tesco car park area. parking bays. This would ensure that they had The central problem of cycling in Yate is the Town Centre. become the staging point for a two stage crossing good views of passing pedestrians and cyclist when Any programme of encouraging cycling in Yate must 3. The existing Station Road lights crossing is already of Station Road. they drove off. of necessity solve the current issues of approaching designed for cyclists. What is missing is a defined the Town Centre and of navigating through it to reach 2. As it is not possible to cycle through the shopping crossing of Church Road and a shared use footway 5. This Toucan crossing of the link road is well destinations beyond. area it is essential to make a good east – west as far as Lawns Road. This leads through for the arranged. It needs to connect to more cycle route down this corridor. At present there is a shortest route to the main Goose Green Way cycle parking for the Shopping Centre, to the proposed This plan addresses the matters to be resolved on the rather haphazard assembly of narrow paths and routes serving the northeast side of the town. route through the car park, and it leads to the northern approaches to the Centre. unloved grass spaces. There is ample room to existing cycling route south to Cotswold Road. 4. Mark out an advisory cycling route through the 1. The existing cycle route marked out through the construct a good 3m wide shared use path, with

6. The key connection between the new cinema area and shopping centre and the whole northern part of Yate is blocked by the current junction of Station Road. The solution to this is to divert the cycling route to a new path to the east of the River Frome. 7. A light controlled crossing at Station Road can be positioned here on the desire line as it is well set back from the congested Station Road/Link Road junction. 8. The Lawns Road link will be the most convenient route for No way across Station Road for pedestrians or cyclists many journeys, including those travelling west for the station and the Badminton Road Council offices. This section of path needs widening and the narrow bridge over the River Frome needs replacing. 9. The existing Toucan crossing is quite suitable although its waiting areas either side need to be levelled and enlarged. 10. All these link paths are really too narrow for shared use routes. 11. This important walking route past the Parish Church deserves to be enhanced with tree planting all 7 the way down to Station Road. 12. This existing crossing is currently isolated with nowhere to go, but current plans will construct a good route around the northern 6 side of the complex roundabout to give a direct route to the Station. Link Road 13. The proposed route past the Development library connects to the south side Unused space and ill-defined paths by Station Road Option of Yate. 6. Yate Cycle Routes Project - Apreliminary CHIPPING SODBURY, DODINGTON proposals & YATE CYCLING NETWORK SEPTEMBER 2013 • PAGE 7 1. The existing cycle route marked out through the shared use path, with priority raised crossings at each 4. Mark out an advisory cycling route through the car Connecting through to car park ends at Station Road to reach The Glen access road, and planted with avenue trees to make park aisles as has been done near the Sports Centre. which leads to the St. Mary’s Park route north. The the whole route an attractive path ending in the rather Vehicular traffic is all travelling very slowly so issues the Town Centre from the suggested detail makes use of the fact that The Glen, pretty, but little used square at North Parade. Shared of safety are light. It would though be beneficial for northern side of Yate which is a cul-de-sac serving only a small area, does use of the existing zebra crossing then connects to the everyone if a reverse parking policy was followed so not need to exit lanes to Station Road. The left turning Tesco car park area. that everyone reversed into their parking bays. This The central problem of cycling in Yate is the Town Centre. one of these can usefully become the staging point for would ensure that they had good views of passing Any programme of encouraging cycling in Yate must of 3. The existing Station Road lights crossing is already a two stage crossing of Station Road. pedestrians and cyclist when they drove off. necessity solve the current issues of approaching the Town designed for cyclists. What is missing is a defined Centre and of navigating through it to reach destinations 2. As it is not possible to cycle through the shopping area crossing of Church Road and a shared use footway 5. This Toucan crossing of the link road is well arranged. beyond. it is essential to make a good east – west route down as far as Lawns Road. This leads through for the It needs to connect to more cycle parking for the this corridor. At present there is a rather haphazard shortest route to the main Goose Green Way cycle Shopping Centre, to the proposed route through the This plan addresses the matters to be resolved on the assembly of narrow paths and unloved grass spaces. routes serving the northeast side of the town. car park, and it leads to the existing cycling route northern approaches to the Centre. There is ample room to construct a good 3m wide south to Cotswold Road.

The Town Centre is ringed by Kennedy Way and Station 2. Widen footway for shared use. Leisure Centre in colour as has already been done 12. Mark out route through car park as has already been Road which carry heavy traffic and are a real obstacle from the other direction. done at the Leisure Centre end. 3. Convert crossing and its approaches to shared use. to cycling in the whole of the town let alone to reach the 8. Existing cycling routes. 13. Scott Way route from the south. Shopping Centre. 4. Mark out 3m wide path for shared use through this area. It may be best to rearrange the existing bike 9. Existing light controlled crossing will come into its 14. Existing light controlled crossing. This map shows how this can be resolved and the quite storage. See the detailed appendix to see how the own when the planned cycling route avoiding the modest works required to put good quality cycling routes 15. Define crossing of access road with zebra markings. path can make the minimal impact on the shopping Station Road roundabouts is put in place. in place which can expect to become popular and the 16. Mark out cycling route on pavement. In this area it parade, and give way to pedestrians on the approach basis for cycling throughout the town. 10. Essential new crossing to reach The Glen for routes would be useful to abandon and fill in the subway as to the existing main rod crossing. to the north. it is hardly used and occupies a great deal of space. If 1. Sunridge Oak is traffic calmed, and although it has 5. Define crossing with zebra markings. this was the case a new path could be constructed on traffic and is a bus route this is probably the only way 11. Construct a good 3m wide path through various the reclaimed space. up from the southwest of the town, and the link route 6. Follow parking access road. pieces of grass and paving including defined priority 17. Mark up this pavement for shared use. It would be under construction from Bristol. crossings of all access roads and drives. 7. Mark out shared use route past the library and to the useful to have a crossing of Cotswold Way nearer to the Link Road roundabout rather than to make the current dogleg. 18. Create new shared use path around Link Road with raised crossing of service road and a cycling phase in the Link Road junction details. 19. Existing crossing takes cyclists to the Shopping Centre cycle path. 20. The existing roadside cycling path ends up at Station Road where there is no crossing provision at this difficult and congested junction. Because of the proximity of the river bridge there is insufficient space to work out a solution so it would be better to cross 21 the Frome, build a new path along the edge of the car park and provide a good raised crossing for the defined priority route for pedestrians and cyclists across the car park access road. 21. Preferred This crucial crossing of Station Road can now be set back from the junction to tie up closer with the existing option as 20 paths going north. part of new development 22. Planned development and cinema site. There are opportunities for at least two linking paths which could welcome cyclists to the entrances to the stores and cinema where parking racks should be installed. 23. Existing Toucan lights over main road leading to 3m wide cycle path south of the main road 18

A separate path is almost already marked out by the coloured paviours along South Parade

Difficult crossing of Link Road to reach the Centre Good crossing of Cotswold Way just to the east of the Centre 8. Yate Cycle Routes Project - Apreliminary CHIPPING SODBURY, DODINGTON proposals & YATE CYCLING NETWORK SEPTEMBER 2013 • PAGE 9 This important development scheme will have a Green 1. It is planned to make a link path into this eastern end 2. The existing Cycle way from the north splinters out Details around proposed Yate Themed Plan to encourage staff and visitors to travel of the site so as to provide a convenient access for at Station Road. It would be best to make a defined Link Road Development and to site by sustainable forms of transport. Walking and people coming down Station Road from Chipping crossing at this point set well back from the Link Road cycling schemes will be promoted by the Centre and Sodbury. It would be best if this link is positioned junction. This will require agreement to be reached on Cinema individual operators, as well as cycle parking. This map as shown because it would then also directly link up the small parcel of land outside the control of the Yate sets out to show the essential paths and road crossings with the Goose Green Way routes serving the whole Shopping Centre. required to enable these approaches to be fulfilled and the northern part of the town. A zebra crossing would 3. In order to keep the crossing of the car park access public to popularly walk and cycle to both this site and to be the most appropriate arrangement to make a safe road away from the junction with the Link Road as the existing shopping centre. and convenient way over the road. well, the through walking and cycling route needs to pass through this car park with the loss of 9 spaces. 4. A raised zebra crossing would be the most suitable here. 5. The path needs to follow the existing ramp, which might possibly be widened with earthworks. This will conveniently connect with the planned café which should be popular with walkers and cyclists. 6. The spine approach to the shops is principally for pedestrians but there is no reason why cyclist should not use it if it is planned to be wider – say 5m rather than the 2.4m shown. Some cycle parking needs to be at the end of this link for convenience. 1 7. Existing good Toucan crossing of Link road takes cyclists towards Tesco’s and the Centre. 8. Cyclist need to park here, or to join the various ways through the car park. 14 9. This existing bridge provides another potentially shared use way to the cinemas. The path on the cinema site needs to be a generous welcome, and one car parking space shown needs to be removed. 10. Although the direct desire line over the Link Road is near the roundabout, the arrangement here is 6 13 convenient for the cinema and for cyclists travelling to 9 the northern part of Yate. It is proposed to provide a 2 cycling phase in the junction arrangements here and to provide a shared use path along the west side of the 5 Link Road. 3 11. This service access crossing should be provided with a raised crossing to give clear priority to pedestrians and 4 cyclists. 10 7 12. The crossing on this leg of the junction is also important, but not as crucial as is the Link Road arm. 13. Existing good Toucan crossing connects well to the 11 southeast part of the town. 8 12 14. This link path is to be upgraded for shared use in order to allow cyclists to enjoy a section of the Frome riverside path. 9. Yate Cycle Routes ProjectA CHIPPING - SODBURY,preliminary DODINGTON & YATE proposals CYCLING NETWORK SEPTEMBER 2013 • PAGE 10

Plan showing the boundary of the Yate Shopping Centre land showing proposed network of cycling routes in the area

Existing path fronting the new development and cinema site, showing toucan crossing signalsz

Existing cycling routes

Proposed cycling routes

Proposed routes on Shopping Centre land

Proposed route painted along car park aisle

Proposed crossing Planned cycling route from Emersons Green Existing crossing provision and Bristol Shopping Centre boundary

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10. Works required for the proposed network

Whilst ideally these proposed routes would be 3m wide, because so many of the c. A certain amount of trimming of vegetation to improve sight lines, particularly existing paths are duplicated, an initial phase could adopt just one of the paths for near residential garden entrances. shared use, leaving the other exclusively for pedestrians. The works which would be necessary include: d. Cycle racks at destinations, all in really convenient locations close to where people want to go. There is nothing like full cycle racks to demonstrate the a. A number of short new links to either connect through where there is a gap, existence of cycling. or to make short cuts across a corner where there is already a desire line e. A clear system of signing so that residents all over the town know that they can be confident of reaching their destinations along these routes they may b. Dropped kerbs and crossings of roads such as St. Briavel’s Drive for not have used before. example, where a raised pavement crossing would be the ideal solution to provide continuity of route and to emphasise the importance, and priority to f. Clear maps in public areas to promote the routes, along with a range of pedestrians and cyclists making these short local trips. promotional activates – including articles in the Iocal press, initiatives with local employers, schemes with retailers, Bike It programmes in local schools, integration with health centres and local GP surgeries and a range of rides and events along the routes. As part of this it will be crucial to provide continuity of route through the central shopping area which currently forms a major obstacle to getting across the notion that cycling is a welcome way of travelling in Yate.

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Appendix 1 Detailed maps of suggested routes Estimates of Costs The routes shown here comprise a preliminary suggestion. The route The routes shown here could be opened with very little work or little cost other maps are accompanied by a number of photographs showing the general than a few connections and careful signing. Alternatively if funds were available characteristics of the route together with brief notes on the principal points they could be progressively overhauled until they were a full 3m wide and where works are required. continuous throughout.

Some of the paths to be followed are designated as public footpaths. To start with a budget of £100,000 could be carefully allocated to tackle works in This status would remain with permissive cycling allowed by agreement with order of priority to open the whole network shown here to a preliminary standard. the landowner – the Council.

John Grimshaw Westerleigh Greenways Coordinator Location map of large scale plans which are at 1:2500 scale when printed at A4 page size. Note that this preliminary report only shows details of the one route from Shire Way to the Town Centre by way of example.

1. Crossing of Shire Way is the final detail of 3. New link from Shire Way to the start of the existing KEY current planning consent. Its details remain to footpath network. be resolved but a raised pavement “zebra” type Traffic free crossing would be appropriate for this entrance to 4. Typical short cut opportunities. 1 the Town. Adjacent green spaces New traffic free links 2. To reach Yate Common the existing footway needs to be widened by about 1.5m for shared use. On-road sections with Space can be achieved by cutting down the width traffic calming of the existing right turning lane to Chedworth.

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Path through open space

View showing opportunity to narrow road

5. Existing subway is generally suitable for shared use although a dedicated at grade crossing of 2 Rodford Way on the level might be considered preferable.

6. The route serves this local centre.

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7. Again a raised crossing of St. Briavel’s Drive would be useful. 3

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3a showing the ample space available

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7. Again a raised crossing of St. Briavel’s Drive would 9. There seems to be little alternative but to use be useful. Sundridge Park which is traffic calmed by humps. The presence of cyclists could be further enhanced 4 8. This link from Highworth Crescent to the by the addition of 1.5m wide cycle lanes joining Stanshawes Drive greenway could be much either side of the road. But is there any provision for improved in the vicinity of the garage forecourt. a cycling path within the Yate International Academy scheme?

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KEY 10. Modify this pedestrian lights crossing to shared use to deliver the route right to the shopping centre, and consider Traffic free continuing a dedicated route through to the Leisure Centre 5 Adjacent green spaces for a possible route on to the north side of Yate.

New traffic free links 11. This would be the better route in that it would avoid Sundridge Park with its traffic. On-road sections with traffic calming

12. It should be possible to define a shared use route along the pavement in this lightly used fringe of the shopping area to connect with the existing Kennedy Way cycling routes.

13. There is a great need to complete a continuous route past the shopping centre to demonstrate that cycling is considered an important and real form of transport. There seems to be scope to make a good route past the Post Office and the Library to link up with the existing cycling paths. A shared use route could be designated much as has been allowed for a number of years in the Broadmead area of Bristol.

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13. There is a great need to complete a continuous 14. The Sports Centre is an important destination route past the shopping centre to demonstrate that and a natural place to cycle too. Cycle racks are cycling is considered an important and real form required here. This is also the point where two 6 of transport. There seems to be scope to make a existing cycling routes abruptly stop. good route past the Post Office and the Library to link up with the existing cycling paths. A shared 15. Existing cycle lane marked out through car park. use route could be designated much as has been allowed for a number of years in the Broadmead 16. There is no defined continuation of the route area of Bristol. northwards although it is signed along The Glen.

Note: this town centre area is discussed in more detail on page 7

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17. This path is an existing cycling route. It runs through a most attractive area and gives a good route from the north part of the Town. But it is 7 poorly signed, and here as throughout the shared use network, the public need to be advised which sections are designated as shared use.

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7a showing shared path beside Templar Road