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| Liverpool Loop Line Cycleway |
I
pushed on through suburban Liverpool to join the Sustrans route that
runs along the old Liverpool Loop Line. This was a railway that
looped around the city to the east. The fact that it was ripped up by
Beeching was very short sighted [it would make a brilliant rapid
transit route nowadays] but on the plus side it does make a great
cycle route. I had not ridden on it before; when I was in Liverpool
it would have been a series of forbidden and dodgy cuttings and
embankments. It cuts from neighbourhood to neighbourhood as it works
its way North and West. From leafy Childwall to blood-stained Norris
Green it is a journey through a segmented city. At one stage it
looked like I might have to pay “admission” to an impromptu
substance abuse day centre on one of the bridges but I negotiated a
way through.
The
contrast between the “say hello to everyone” culture of York and
the grim faced mistrust of Merseyside was noticeable.
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