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Ditton Marsh to St. Michael's Road, Widnes

12 Mar 2023
by gogledd
in forum cycle.travel
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Hi, Id set a route to get to a rugby league game in thatto heath on 12th March 2023. All was going well. We worked our way through Runcorn which was excellent, then over the Runcorn (Jubilee) Bridge adn then onto NCN 63 taking us below the bridge to near West Bank Dockland Park. We turned right onto Desoto Road to a roundabout and the route took us left into an industrial area. The route then went through a security gate which opened on the press of a buzzer. The route then tries to take cyclist under a railway line and onto St Michaels Road. However there is no way through to the the railway underpass. It has been fenced off with metal barred fencing. So we retraced our rout back to the security gate....and then couldn't get it to open! After about 10 minutes of trying i pulled a steel wire at the lower section of the gate and the gate then opened! Please review any routes in this area to avoid trying to send riders in this direction

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Sun 12 Mar 2023, 21:57

Sorry about that and thanks for the heads-up!

cycle.travel’s mapping data comes from the community-created OpenStreetMap project. That was showing a road under the railway. I’ve now fixed that and it’ll be reflected in cycle.travel next time it takes a mapping update (in a week or two).

Tue 25 Apr 2023, 17:08

Awesome. Thanks Richard....I don't want anyone else getting stuck in a container park!