It has been really great to be able to use the whole length of the bicycle path for a while. But I knew that there was going to be one last interruption. Recent closures had been because of the installation of a new bridge. Now they also wanted to take the old bridge away.
One Monday morning I avoided the path on the way out. I assumed it was closed, but you can’t tell unless you try, and might get turned back. On the way back I indeed bumped into a fence that stopped me continuing on the bicycle path, and forced me onto the road. It had begun!
Closure has been predicted to only be a week. So I figured that soon, I will be able to admire the new bridge, and mourn the loss of the old one. I think the old one is a lot more beautiful. But I acknowledge that the new bridge now makes it possible for cyclists to come all the way from Bangor over the cycle path, and without having to spend as much as a meter on the A5 (the through road here), continue all the way up to Llyn Ogwen. That didn’t used to be possible. If you would go over the old bridge you would have to somehow get your bike through a kissing gate. And the path leading to that gate starts out so steep that only very stubborn and fit people would be able to bike it uphill. So in that way, it is a clear win!
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