[Billy Wobble Dagger]

I would have thought it would get more people out cycling if the tracks went through nature reserves, and that, as the Sparkly one says, has to be better news than another road.

I don't know the reserve but presumably it has some public access, and a cycle path is hardly a 6 lane motorway. I think we need to be careful not to make nature reserves off limits to the general, and I mean general as in not really interested in wildlife, public. I agree that we shouldn't start putting 50 picnic tables and a dozen fast food outlets in each reserve, but if a cycle path means half a dozen familys go for a bike ride and two young children grow up with a huge interest in nature then that is a good thing, yes.

Only my thoughts.

BWD