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Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Contributor to https://t.co/0QAqoJRSfv & The Guardian. Historian at Island Press, USA.

Jul 6, 2020, 7 tweets

I cycled out with my drone to the coast to photograph the pop-up cycleway installed by @NTCouncilTeam between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay. Here's the start at Tynemouth Priory and Castle. 1/7

Cones have been replaced with more substantial barriers in some sections. 2/7

It's a scenic cycleway. Motorists are now one-way on this road. 3/7

Access for motorists is blocked at roundabouts. Chap with surfboard on his bike can cycle with fewer worries of being rear-ended. 4/7

The roundabouts are blocked with cones or more substantial barriers. One-way system for motorists working well. 5/7

The Cullercoats curve. 6/7

Shame the pop-up cycleways doesn't go as far as the Links thereby joining up with the 1930s cycleway at Whitley Bay. bikeboom.info/1930s 7/7

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