A new bike trap has been installed

For decades I've been riding the green ways of Britain and this green way, like many others, is by permission of the landowner. Oh dear. This week a new bike trap at Lighlands lane, Cookham has gone in on cycle route 50, and I can't get my handlebars through. The result is the green way is now off limits and not accessible for cyclists, hand bikes or wheelchairs. What a shame. It is of course the perogative of the landowner how they choose to make the way accessible and for whom. Sadly it looks like the end of cycle route 50. Instead the detour is over the treacherous Widbrook common, which is utterly scary. I pedalled along a road into Maidenhead, picked up ncn4 where the bike gates have been removed and the green way is shared safely and happily. Across the new cycle path by the side of the M4 over the Thames to Dorney and down past Boveney chapel to the lovely meadows by Eton. May is a gorgeous month to enjoy Britain's cycle paths. There's a new pedestrian area being constructed by Queen Victoria's state next to Windsor castle. The way home came through fields of buttercups and cascading white may blossom. There were also huge flooded footpaths. (Look closely you can spot the bloke climbing along the fence to access the other side of the flood. He didn't. Soaking wet feet.) A Sustrans volunteer was at work on the jubilee River doing an audit of these bike hazard entrance gates/traps. The highway code has made the vulnerable a priority. The green way landowners have some way to go to make the cycle paths accessible.....