Majority of Bristol-Bath Railway Path users "frustrated" with each other

I ride the path Bath to Bristol at 5am every week day and it's lovely as it's just me and a few other fairly fast moving commuters. I then return at 4pm and it's a busy multi use path and you go slower and try and respect the other users. There are plenty of nobbers however who do think 20mph plus is fine weaving between mums and kiddies. I get frustrated but it's a far nicer way to get to and from work than giving first my money on the train or bus. Think the article is a bit of tosh to be honest.

How depressing all round... Ultimately, all spaces are shared. It's up to us as human beings to work out how.

Think you should rethink the alarmist headline, as nothing in the body of the report justifies the word 'hate'

Article suggests she's leaping to a shared-use = bad conclusion.

She ought to survey a similar situation overseas, to get a tabloid-free comparative element and help establish underlying causes of tension.

If people asked for an opinion reply with the one they read recently, but when offered segregation don't leap at it, there's maybe a more nuanced situation than a one-location study can unravel.

is this some devious measure intended to get the path closed and turned into a tramway?

Nice work - but let's move onto something important - ask me about those shoppers at Tesco!!!

welcome to the failed sustrans experiment shared use may have a place but it really isn't the solution.

Is this a parody or what? The daily mash already does the "new research out from the university of the bleeding obvious" articles.

The problems with the Bristol-Bath path are based on traffic density and maintenance. The tarmac strip is not wide enough for peak traffic flows it now sees. But for almost the whole path they could double the width of the tarmac strip and/or cut back the encroaching bushes that reduce its effective width.

With the density of mixed padestrian and cycle traffic it sees it should also be built with a footway and a cycleway, preferably with a mild curb to separate them and make it obvious which is which.

That it is so successful should be a beacon to the government about suppressed demand for facilities like these rather than calling out the "serious cyclists" who (surprise surprise) want to take advantage of this wonderful car free cycling environment.

Oh come on the headline is clearly being facetious.

Last time I used I vented my frustration but it was at some mug with his dog off the lead which ran around the corner towards me. He seemed genuinely suprised that someone could fine this an issue.

OK, so why do you need a PhD to understand that if something is coming towards you that is faster than you with the potential to cause you harm, you might not like it, or if you're moving along you don't want something to step out in front of you to impede you journey or to potential cause an accident?

This I'm sure would be the same if you asked car users about cyclists or cyclists about car users.

Generally, unless I'm playing with the kids on bikes in the park, I want to get to my destination as fast as possible and safely, not having to dodge pedestrians, so I'm not sure why a mixed cycle and pedestrian route would make sense (that's if bikes are looked at as a serious form of transport).

The rules should be set out clearly for everyone to understand, then at least you could base your dislike of 'the other' on something concrete.

Failing that, just put loads of signs up saying "Love thy neighbor as thyself"

It sounds (and I hope I am right) like Ms Delaney established a proper scientific survey population, rather than sending out a tweet along the lines "Pedestrians who use the Bath-Bristol path - strong views about cyclists? Complete our survey!"

I guess the route is a victim of its own success. After all, most motorists absolutely loathe all other motorists on the road at the same time as them, don't they?

If 75% of affronted path users can't be bothered to say anything to the person who's offended them, this article's use of "hate" is probably the least appropriate deployment of the word since Marmite's marketing team got their yeasty brown digits on it

From the descriptions of the Railway Path online and in the local media you'd think it was a crime-ridden rubbish-strewn gutter, used mainly as a wheeled Cresta Run by slavering Strava fanatics, instead of a pleasant (if circuitous and sometimes busy) way to avoid Bristol's nightmare motor traffic. Thanks for adding to the hype.

Having used that path a few times in the recent past, I was shocked at how quickly many serious cyclists were riding on what is supposed to be a shared route. Felt like they were using it as a high-speed alternative to the train commute between Bristol and Bath. No bells to warn of impending danger, either. No wonder many pedestrians and more leisurely cyclists get annoyed.

These results could be easily replicated by asking any human beings, engaged in any activity of any sort, anywhere, whether they had experienced frustration as a result of other people doing things.