{"id":22070,"date":"2019-01-24T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22070"},"modified":"2019-01-24T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:46:00","slug":"hazardous-gate-on-taff-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/hazardous-gate-on-taff-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hazardous&#8221; Gate on Taff Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cyclists in Cardiff say a gate on the Taff Trail is putting people at risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The gate is near Blackweir Bridge and cuts across the path. It only leaves a small space for pedestrians and cyclists to pass through and a number of cyclists say they have been injured trying to cycle through the space.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclist Stephen Cunnah regularly uses the path and he says the gate and the ground around it is &#8220;hazardous&#8221;. He&#8217;s particularly concerned about the risk cyclists face when they try to cycle through the space at night, when it&#8217;s dark.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Council say the gate is there to stop vehicles from driving onto the trail. But Mr Cunnah says there are other access points on the trail where a gate could be put to stop cars without blocking the trail itself. He&#8217;s also said that the council should consider replacing the gate with bollards.<\/p>\n<p>Pedal Power, the cycling charity, also want to see bollards instead of a gate on the Taff Trail. They say the gate is stopping disabled cyclists from accessing the trail because the space is too small for some adaptive bikes to get through.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Kevin Rahmen-Dahltry, the charity&#8217;s spokesman, says such small gaps aren&#8217;t needed. Some adaptive bikes simply can&#8217;t fit through the small spaces in the gate. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Rahmen-Dahltry says that when the adaptive cyclists can fit through the gate is still a problem because &#8220;the riders don&#8217;t feel confident and comfortable enough to go through those gaps. A lot of cyclists that come and see us (Pedal Power) have spacial awareness disorders like dyspraxia and those people  . . . won&#8217;t even try to go through the gate&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The council have said they&#8217;ve spoken to the Parks department who will be looking into the issue. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclists in Cardiff say a gate on the Taff Trail is putting people at risk. The gate is near Blackweir Bridge and cuts across the path. It only leaves a small space for pedestrians and cyclists to pass through and a number of cyclists say they have been injured trying to cycle through the space. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[26,166,425,841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22070"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22132,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070\/revisions\/22132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}