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Barriers to entry

a path beside the river in Bristol watching a man deploy a tape measure on a pair of bollards. It’s very hot, and there is a merciless lack of shade. The man in question is Ed Plowden. Ed is tasked with making the National Cycle Network accessible for all, which means removing what, at a 2020 count, amounted to more than 16,000 barriers on the National Cycle Network (NCN). If you think that’s a

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