Cyclists in Cardiff have expressed their irritation after the positive impact brought on by an improved pedestrian and cycle ramp was soured by dozens of cars using the adjoining underpass to park in. Work was recently carried out to improve and widen a pedestrian and cycle path along Taffs Mead Embankment in Cardiff - work that has been praised by cyclists and pedestrians alike.
A ramp, which is part of the path, leading down to the railway underpass was previously too narrow, according to one Riverside resident, Gwilym Owen, who called the improvement work "fantastic". Gwilym said: "It was just a case that it created a bottleneck. I am aware that if you are a pedestrian walking up the ramp or down the ramp that some cyclists could whizz past you and it would just feel a bit uncomfortably close."
Although the improved ramp is "much better than it used to be", he added, the normally empty underpass that it meets has been occupied by parked cars. This is because bollards that were used to prevent cars from entering the underpass were removed.
