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I think it would make a good LFGSS summer party location

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Any takers for putting together a set of social rides showing off their local area?

It's a really cool quirky thing

Well. As I suspect I've said before in this thread, the 'Model Traffic Area' is kind of emblematic of the 'Road Safety' tendency, one of whose main aims was to scare people walking and cycling, and in this case mostly children, off the streets. The idea was that it would be safer to inculcate in people that they should avoid the risks of moving as traffic. Of course, people cycling slowly, 'holding up' drivers, or having the temerity to cross streets on foot, rather got in the way of the great mass motoring revolution (as did the inevitably longer queues of drivers when they could get to the end of the next queue faster). Hence, cycling 'education' was done away from the streets, with the lessons learned on these tiny tracks essentially not applicable to cycling on the streets by most. Cue a huge drop in cycling and walking, therefore much lower activity levels, and the associated much greater health risks (which are now going to get even worse given 'micro-mobility' and people using silly little electric machines to avoid walking and cycling even more). The idea that you should always use a motorised machine when moving about is to a large extent caused by the great deprecation of active travel, of which the 'Model Traffic Area' was one manifestation.

I'd rather teach a 5 year old to ride here than the A10! Reducing the complexity of a task to be learned is good pedagogy, where that also massively reduces the risk of death or serious injury I think it's obvious that such facilities should be expanded.

And of course most cycling should be on exactly these kind of tracks segregated from motor traffic, further enhancing their possible utility.

One of my earliest memories of London is being taken to the model traffic area by my parents. I would have been 6 (I think) at the time.

I had actually forgotten where it is, prior to the (re) tag.

I also think the A10 needs to be less shit

But it has a cycle lane down part of it!

One where you are petrified someone is going to turn into a random business in front of you every 50 yards and the light controlled crossings require you to stop twice.

I've not made this particularly easy. The bridge isn't on street view. The clue doesn't refer to the bridge itself, (but the path leading to it). And it's fairly terrifying at night as it is unlit. But it does have its own Twitter account so not completely impossible.

I fly my rc planes there (lordship rec). Keep an eye out on a sunny day :)

Old: Tottenham marshes foot bridge, off Carbuncle Passage

(Great clueage btw, I thought I recognised it at first but - being a bit dim -was thrown off by the location of the buildings you mentioned. Only realised the Carbuncle connection last night)

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Hard to know if I've made this too difficult. I think it's fairly clear what the tag is, and from there hopefully Google can tell you where it is. Happy to provide a clue if needed tho

There's never any harm in posting a clue. I assume oat's clue was that all the buildings had been described as carbuncles but I was nowhere near getting it.

None of my attempts to describe that building are bringing anything up.

What's on the building is related, but the tag is more to do with what's on the path

Nope. Parkland walk sticking its nose in where it's not wanted.

Well, I recon that the two parallel lines are as far apart as railway lines.
Also a railway station has been painted onto an electricity sub-station, so my guess is a disused railway line and this is on the site of where once stood a station.

disused railway line and this is on the site of where once stood a station.

Hmm, there are a lot of sisued stations in London. And most are associated with railway track...

"Use Google" really isn't a clue.

I recognise the location, although I've never noticed the wall art before.

Your search-fu has clearly deserted (no pun intended) you.

Yeah, this is bike tag, ride around and take some pics not search engine optimisation class...

Ha ok maybe it's not as google-able as I'd thought.

The disused railway line was a very short one, in the vicinity of a few recent (re)tags. It was named after a station which later changed its name to the one we'd recognise nowadays, but the original name sounded like a much classier place

Blimey, that took some finding.

I just looked at the Wikipedia list of disused London railway lines and then went for the closest one.

Mind blowing how other peoples brains work isn't it.

It's either easy because you're familiar with the place, or it's a bit difficult to work out from the image/clue, or it's just not for you, and someone else will have a go.

We can't all know them all! It's been one day and you're already bellyaching :D