MAGNIFICENT MUDWAY TO WALKWAY TRANSFORMED because:
22 Kms in length, made up of two unused railway lines with a funny kink in the middle where they don't quite meet!
Mentioned in our current 'Walk' magazine. Can you find the mention?!
Connects one city and one town via the delightful village of Wombourne in South Staffordshire.
Well used in Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire by all kinds of walkers and even some horse riders and cyclists.
NOT well used in Dudley borough because, in places, it is overgrown and muddy and waterlogged.
An unrecognised, forgotten, unappreciated, unloved cycle-walkway.
But all of it could be a business, commuter and leisure route for cycle commuters deserting their cars to respond to the climate emergency. Like I have, literally, for decades!
Three nature reserves, with two in Dudley borough.
Two refreshment halts in two old Victorian railway stations.
One nationally important long-distance footpath, the Monarch's Way, uses part of it.
One Woodland Trust property, with car park, called Himley Plantation is next to the cycle-walkway.
One SSSI at Pensnett, Dudley for its nationally famous Great Crested Newts.
Baggeridge Country Park is nearby.
Recognised by the Ordnance Survey on their Explorer map as a major "traffic-free cycle route".
HS2, Metro and Sprint extensions all prove money is in great abundance and grows on the trees that don't get felled for HS2!
Very best wishes for any writing you can do to impress on the authorities how desperately needed it is for it to be finished with a wide, all-weather, free-draining surface. Exactly like the upgrade in Woodgate Valley Country Park in west Brum, now transformed after decades of patient, intermittent requests - by me!
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