• Not a commute cos I am on holiday in The Mumbles, but want to shout out to Swansea for a fucking exceptional bike path that runs along the bay. Definitely the best shared path I have ridden. Smooth, well marked and rarely a path where for the most parts peds stick to their side. And the views when the weather is like this...


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  • That cycleway is built on the trackbed of the old Mumbles Railway, the world's only double-decker railway ever built on standard gauge. It was scrapped in the early 1960s, bad move, would be a world-famous tourist attraction now. Here's how it was, from near the same vantage point as your last pic...

  • you got lucky, Its horrific in the high summer as none of the peds pay any attention to it. joggers listening to music and dog walkers letting their dogs leads block the path all over the place

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