This is how it looks today. I spoke to the next door neighbour and he told me the crash woke him up and he rang the police. Fortunately no one was hurt, but the driver was badly shaken and appeared incoherent. He ran off, whilst the
Harrowbrook Road industrial estate, Hinckley.
Harrowbrook Road industrial estate, Hinckley.
Harrowbrook Road industrial estate, Hinckley.
This has no permeability with the ring road.
Racks at Lidl, Hinckley near the supermarket entrance.
Racks at Lidl, Hinckley near the supermarket entrance.
Wharf Inn, Coventry Road / Nutts Lane, Hinckley
St Georges Avenue, Hinckley
St Georges Avenue, Hinckley
Footbridge over battling brook, Hollycroft, Hinckley.
Unnamed cycleway in Hollycroft estate next to Battling Brook.
Roundabout crossing at Sunnydale / Langdale roads, Hinckley.
Sunnydale Road, Hinckley.
Cycle marking without a cycle lane.
Sunnydale Road, Hinckley.
The racks at this Premier Inn, Hinckley are mounted too close to the wall preventing secure parking. Also they are too close together.
But at least they are close to the reception area.
Off a shared use onto a dual carriageway.
Hydes Lane and link to the towpath of the Ashby Canal on the right.
Hydes Lane off the A5
This section is metalled and leads to a bridleway that has a compacted surface but is a bit muddy in place.
Bell Entry a narrow passage of Castle Street, Hinckley.
Spencer Street, Hinckley, oneway street.
A narrow jitty in Hinckley.
A narrow 'jitty' in Hinckley.
A back street in Hinckley
Brookes Yard
See #179181.
Blue plaque for John Boultbee Brooks, developer of the Brook's saddle.
http://www.hinckleypastpresent.org/jbbrooks.html
Cycles can turn right onto Regent Street from George Street, Hinckley.
This mini-roundabout served the back of Hinckley Leisure centre which has been demolished.
Alleyway with blue plaque for Dr Myra King Merrick
http://www.hinckleypastpresent.org/hinckleyhistorian-myramerrick.html
Former site of Hinckley Leisure Centre.
Faded cycle marking on Queens Road, Hinckley.
Covered cycle parking at a new development, Hinckley.
Shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Poor access to the shared use cycleway at Queen’s Park, Hinckley.
Hinckley Railway Station is cheered up with planters and a gardened embankment by volunteers sponsored by local businesses.
https://hinckleystation.org.uk/
Hinckley Railway Station is cheered up with planters and a gardened embankment by volunteers sponsored by local businesses.
https://hinckleystation.org.uk/
Covered cycle parking outside ALDI in Hinckley.
Electric vehicles charging point in Hinckley.
Stile to cross the Birmingham to Cambridge railway.
A public footpath skirts the edge of Hinckley Golf Club.
New development connection to public footpath by Hinckley Golf course.
New development seemingly designed with on footway motor vehicle storage.
Footpath connection off the new development.
New development on an edge of Hinckley.
Lack of a dropped kerb suggests that this is a footpath not a cycleway.
This housing development appears to have been built with cycling access, but it’s usually gated off when I go by. Signs claim that it’s private.
Shortcut, No Cycling sign, no dropped kerb.
Although these signs carry a negative, their main message to me is that a shortcut exists.
Highfields Road one way, Hinckley.
A little bit of filtered permeability with the recent housing development. There's a bollard and a dropped kerb.
Normandy Way, a shared use cycleway at an edge of Hinckley.
Normandy Way, a shared use cycleway at an edge of Hinckley.
Work on resurfacing Dodwells Road, Hinckley shared use cycleway.
Work on resurfacing Dodwells Road, Hinckley shared use cycleway.
Work on resurfacing Dodwells Road, Hinckley shared use cycleway.
I snook through the car park to get past this temporary closure.
Hinckley, home of the pinch-point.
There’s a wooden channel on the side of these steps to help wheel bikes from Coventry Road down to the Ashby Canal towpath.
Coventry Road footway shared use path.
Coventry Road footway shared use path.
The shared use comes to an unceremonious halt here and you have to cross over the busy road to continue.
Coventry Road footway shared use path.
Coventry Road shared-use cycleway or motor vehicle storage?
Yarnbombing has arrived in Hinckley.
Excellent bike shop in Hinckley.
New development along Sketchley Brook.
Cycleway ends and reverts to a footpath here.
Good stands next to the library entrance.
Shared use comes to an end, cyclists continue on the road at this junction.
CYCLISTS
REJOIN
CARRIAGEWAY
Shared use joins carriageway at a short advisory cycle-lane ahead of a pinch point.
Shared use at a school with edge of carriageway fencing.
This strange mix of shared use and no cycling on the same pole is still here at the end of 2018. See #28576.
Normandy way with it's narrow two-way cycle lane at a crossing with a footpath.
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