All photos in & around Jarrow

Casper and Souter

Whitburn Circle

Davit

Art and Doris

Little Haven Sail

Customers can take their bikes in the lift down to Britain's lowest (by some counts) pub, the Grotto at Marsden

parallel crossing

A Sustrans millennium milepost

Sustrans millennium milepost on NCN1 between Whitburn and Souter

A scabby old A frame barrier. The bit of old kerb at the bottom makes it even harder to navigate

The Bowes line between Mill Lane and Monkton Lane

Cycle parking at Edinburgh Road shops in Jarrow.

Barrier at junction of bridleway with North Road in Boldon Colliery

Barrier on bridleway in Boldon Colliery

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An unlicensed and uninsured driver who drove off after hitting a cyclist leaving him with life-changing injuries, gets an 18-month community order and 250 hours of unpaid work and an 18 month driving ban.

www.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/driver-spared-jail-skin-your-teeth-after-smashing-cyclist-and-fleeing-scene-3127695

twitter.com/allpartycycling/status/1359156519632326660

twitter.com/stopkillingcycl/status/1359181522255958021

Barriers on NCN14 at Tyne Dock. Designed to slow cyclists on the approach to the crossing.

Informal crossing over the A185 in Jarrow

Pretty but appalling barrier where RCR11 leaves Monkton Lane and heads north along the old rail line towards the Tyne

New (2020) A-frame barrier on RCR11 just beside Monkton Lane in Jarrow

The rather odd piece of public art beside RCR11 next to Monkton Lane. Like an ancient skeleton

Heading West on the cycleway at night the end of the crash barrier in the cycleway is virtually invisible against car headlights. Adding reflective strips or similar would make it more visible.

Barriers for stopping motorcycles make it impossible to use this path with a bike trailer.

Signage to beware of the fun little train

Fun little train around the lake

Steps

No parking near the school entrance

No parking near the school entrance

Pointless bit of cycle lane

Closure to through-traffic

Cycle parking at a new development being added

NCN along the coast at North Shields

Ferry to North Shields, which takes bikes

Excellent wide and direct pedestrian crossing

Path to the coast

Historic market square

No cycling permitted in the pedestrian zone

Cycle parking by the museum

Pedestrian zone

Cycle parking at a bus stop on Ocean Drive

Public art used as bollards

Cycle parking on Ocean Drive

Public art used as bollards

Public art used as bollards

Pedestrian area

Promenade, opened in 2014

Promenade, opened in 2014

Walkway along the coast

No cycling on the south pier

No cycling on the south pier

Mini driving school for kids

Crossing fails to take account of the desire-line

Ocean Drive - excellent, wide pavements

Ocean Drive - excellent, wide pavements

This is the covid 19 sign telling cyclists they should dismount. On an A road (A183 in Whitburn). Council logo on so my council tax is being wasted on this. I feel an email to a councillor coming on t.co/xgMC3dh2Dm

Pavement in appalling condition. Needs to be widened to allow for cycling and walking.

When cycling from the riverside towards Hebburn, you can easily cut through this estate, but on the way back it’s very easy to take a wrong turn as all the houses look the same. Signposting would help.

While the paths have been designated for both cyclists and pedestrians. The paths are in a poor state, raised paving slabs, large gaps between the paving stones that narrow bike wheels become trapped in. Either, upgrading the path or adding cycle lanes onto the John Reid road would be a huge improvement.

The road between Leam Lane and the John Reid Road is dangerous for both cyclists and pedestrians. As far as I'm aware, the path is not a designated cycle route, the path is in a terrible condition, the kerbs have not been dropped and there is insufficient space for both cycalists and pedestrians. I'm nervous to cycle on this stretch of road due to motorists breaking the speed limit and there is no dedicated cycle lane on the road.

Generally improve the condition, very dusty when dry, little bit rain and its very muddy with large puddles that cover the whole path

Create cycle path to give more space and distance from houses

This is such an obvious one. There's an existing narrow pavement here that goes all the way to Testos. With a small amount of investment this could be widened to be a perfect, well used either shared or cycle route to South Tyneside and the Tyne Pedestrian Tunnel from Gateshead. Other options involve massive detours through Boldon, Fellgate or Washington

I look forward to the inclined lifts being opened in 2038

This whole junction is terrible for cycling - there is a path but it is in awful condition and junction crossings need better surfacing and layout to proper standards. Section of path from A184 to Mill Lane is in really poor condition and is too narrow. Could be a superb route to the Tyne Tunnel from Gateshead but the surface makes it less dangerous to ride on the dual carriageway

Path used for NCN14 between Laygate and Station road needs to be widened as it's too narrow

Path used for NCN14 between Laygate and Station road needs to be widened as it's too narrow

Close Downhill Lane between A184 and A1290 to prevent rat-running to avoid Testos roundabout

Close Downhill Lane between A184 and A1290 to prevent rat-running to avoid Testos roundabout

Barriers across cycle path could do with proper warnings or painted in reflective paint as barrier is the same colour as road barriers

A19 Cycleway needs developed to/from Nissan/Sunderland/Boldon

Dedicated cycleway needed

This pavement links Testo's Roundabout in West Boldon to Whitemare Pool on the edge of Gateshead. The pavement could easily be turned into an excellent cycle super highway if it was repaid. The surface is a shocker at the moment. This would create a fantastic cycle route into Gateshead and Newcastle from South Tyneside.

Presently no consideration of cyclists here at all

Presently no consideration of cyclists here at all

Considering proximity to the College it is poor that presently there is no consideration of cyclists here at all

Presently no consideration of cyclists here at all

Bottom end of Dean Road should have cycleway or 'shared-use road. Relatively low car use and plenty of width

There is a joint cycle and walking path however it’s so dangerous as the cycle side is right next to where cars open there doors and let there children and dogs out of the cars, pedestrians don’t take any notice of where there walking and Some cyclists think they own the path too, what the council need to do is create a whole new cycle path 8-10 foot away and nearer the coast from the existing path this would give the existing path solely to pedestrians and the new path being over a small green and solely for bikes would make people so much more aware and agreeable to cyclists as at the moment there is a lot of tension

Nice example of filtered permeability

Be careful as the 3m shared path abruptly ends before joining the cycle path

Brand new junction. 4 stages to cross one road. Terrible

Tank trap adjacent to NCN1

Covered cycle parking in South Shields

New bicycle parking at Brockley Whins Metro station

Stupid thoughtless alignment of cycle lane

Pointless avoidable barrier when a bollard would have done just fine

Desire lines bypassing barrier

The shared path along the river Don in South Tyneside

Cycle parking at Brockley Whins metro station

Bikes are allowed on the Shields Ferry

Shared-use footway with tactiles, next to closed-off road. Can cyclists not be trusted to cycle safely on the road in this low-traffic environment?

Shared use footway with bus shelter blocking full width of pedestrian half, on NCN14

Segregated footway/cycleway on NCN14 Western Approach, South Shields

British-style cycle path, NCN14

Needlessly sharp corner at turn from path onto shared use footway of main road, on NCN14.

New section of NCN14 path, above new Tyne road tunnel

plenty of cycle parking stands next to the Jarrow Crusade statue outside Morrisons in Jarrow.

Footpath across Morrisons car park looking towards NCN14
Not sure if this is an official cycleway.