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This section is a dirt track which is frequently muddy and full of large puddles. It also has no lighting at all, making it undesirable to use when dark.

Repairing the holes & ruts in the path and resurfacing are a must. Adding lighting too would be even better.

This section is a dirt track which is frequently muddy and full of large puddles. It also has no lighting at all, making it undesirable to use when dark.

Repairing the holes & ruts in the path and resurfacing are a must. Adding lighting too would be even better.

Cycle lane would be good here

For people that want to get from Keelmans Way up to street level, to visit local shops such as Pumphreys Coffee, this path is the most direct way. However it’s very uneven, narrow and overgrown. If it were cleaned up it would also allow easy access to Blaydon Burn.

Illegal use of motorbikes is a nuisance along the entire river. Perhaps installing "squeeze gate" stiles like on the Tanfield Railway path would allow all cyclists, wheelchair users, etc. to still use the path but prevent rowdy youths scaring users of Keelman's Way which is *very* narrow between the marked location in Stella and Blaydon.

The stiles used on this path means it is not suitable for cycling as its the "step over" kind. Perhaps the "squeeze" type stiles used on the Tanfield Railway Path would encourage more cycling.

The path from Stella into Blaydon is relatively narrow, unlit and doesn't feel safe for vulnerable people to walk to the train station. I appreciate the fences either side are there for a reason, but the tarmac surface doesn't even stretch across the full width from fence to fence. And without lighting the path is unusable to women or other vulnerable users half of the year.

Parking needs to be enforced here. cars are parking across the whole pavement on a very dangerous corner.

This is the main walking route to Baltic Quays, Newcastle, Gateshead etc. from St James village and the metro station, but there's no dedicated pedestrian crossing here, you have to chance it when the lights change. Extremely dangerous at rush hour and how are people with disabilities meant to cross safely? shockingly bad infrastructure right next to a metro station.

Very narrow footpath- footpath could be easily widened as space there for parked cars.

A cycle lane through Low Fell much needed. One separated from traffic so accessible for children. Lots of parking on both sides of street - could be repurposed?

Very narrow foot path for so many pedestrians. Would be good to widen footpaths and prioritise children getting to school safely.

Why can you make this a pedestrian and cycle path it would be ideal for people going to the park and pupils going to the local school

Pedestrian and cycle path from Gateshead to Kells Lane then directed on to main road which has not got a cycle lane and is very narrow with parked cars - please put a way for cyclists to carry on cycling on the path through the shopping area

To many parked cars make it cycle and pedestrians path way from Gateshead Town Centre to Birtley that world be safer until we can have cycle lane only paths

The Cycleway alongside the A195 looking south at it disappearing into the trees

Looking north at the crossing point of the A195.

Make it easier for cyclists to pass through Rowlands Gill village and access Derwent Walk. The main road is currently too busy, narrow and dangerous. Perhaps a cycle contraflow along Stirling Lane or Middleton Avenue, or another light- controlled crossing point.

Pavement through Rowlands Gill village centre is too narrow and can be intimidating, especially with the high volume of HGV traffic.

Install a dedicated cycle track to reduce competition between cyclists and pedestrians on shared path.

Amend junction of Glossop Street and B6315 to improve safety for cyclists and pedestrians. Poor visibility makes cyclists harder to be seen, and there have been a number of crashes and near misses. Footpath far too narrow, especially with children or dogs. This will only become more dangerous with new housing in High Spen and Chopwell.

Traffic calming measures to reduce the danger posed by speeding vehicles along Strothers Road. This will create a safer environment for children to play.

Widening and surface improvements to accommodate pedestrians and cyclists.

Amend junction to improve safety for cyclists and pedestrians. Poor visibility makes cyclists harder to be seen, and there have been a number of crashes and near misses. Footpath far too narrow, especially with children or dogs. This will only become more dangerous with new housing in High Spen and Chopwell.

Expand and improve public right of way network to create a traffic-free route from Chopwell Woods to the rest of High Spen

Clear fallen trees obstructing bridleway between High Spen and Rowlands Gill

Install a cycleway between Rowlands Gill and High Spen along B6315 to improve cycle safety and encourage more local people to travel by bike.

A segregated cycleway, alongside a new pathway, would make it possible to travel between High Spen and Winlaton on foot or by bike.

Junction narrowing needed to reduce crossing distance and continuous/ blended crossing needed (good examples in Crawcrook and Prudhoe)

Junction narrowing needed to reduce crossing distance outside the school and continuous/ blended crossing needed (good examples in Crawcrook and Prudhoe)

Continuous/ blended crossing needed (good examples in Crawcrook and Prudhoe)

Junction narrowing needed to reduce crossing distance and continuous/ blended crossing needed (good examples in Crawcrook and Prudhoe)

Continous/ blended crossing needed (good examples in Crawcrook and Prudhoe)

Continous/ blended crossing needed (good examples in Crawcrook and Prudhoe)

Continous/ blended crossing needed (good examples in Crawcrook and Prudhoe)

Continous/ blended crossing needed (good examples in Crawcrook and Prudhoe)

Another really hazardous junction to cross - suggest banning left turning traffic coming from Main Rd westbound and banning right turns from Hexham Old Rd to enable crossing improvements - continuous footway?

Crossing improvement needed over Woodside Ln. There are lots of traffic movements around this central space which need rationalising (see comment above regarding Lane Head and Hexham Old Rd). This junction head needs to be narrowed considerably to reduce the crossing distance.

This is a really hazardous crossing point, with vehicles able to take this junction at speed. No reason to have left and right turn lanes on the other arm of the junction, so I suggest this side is stopped up to create a continuous footway across. Possibility even to improve public space here- reinstate the old pant (fountain)?

Rat-running traffic causes issues on this street and the junction is dangerous for people on foot, particularly those walking to the nursery and schoolchildren. Preventing traffic accessing from the southern end would enable junction improvements and reduce volumes of unnecessary traffic using this residential street.

Access restrictions to reduce speeds and volumes of cars on Barmoor Lane and to enable pavement widening.

Narrow pavements and excessive vehicle speeds make this popular route really uncomfortable to walk along. Suggest it is reduced to single-carriageway with access only/ one-way?

High volume of traffic, well above current guidance (LTN 1/20) for cycling and excessive emissions at this point outside the school. Walking and cycling infrastrucutre improvements needed, as well as measures to reduce volumes of vehicles using Main Rd- maximise use of bypass.

High volume of traffic, well above current guidance (LTN 1/20) for cycling. Walking and cycling infrastrucutre improvements needed, as well as measures to reduce volumes of vehicles using Main Rd- maximise use of bypass.

High volume of traffic, well above current guidance (LTN 1/20) for cycling. Walking and cycling infrastrucutre improvements needed, as well as measures to reduce volumes of vehicles using Main Rd- maximise use of bypass.

New road improvement at roundabout has no consideration for cyclists or pedestrians and has increased danger for cyclists in this area

Extremely steep "cycle path" wih very tight turns at the top and bottom, leading from the Angel Cycleway onto the East Gateshead Cycleway. No Cycling signs and steps on the obvious alternate route.

Almost impenetrable barrier on link from Wardley to NCN14

Throughout unmaintained paths and resting areas. Feels unsafe. Rubbish everywhere. The railing to protect from felling into the river is nonexistent. Would be nice to have a river crossing to avoid the busy city centre.

Very poor/uneven road surface, unable to ride safely. Forced to ride in the centre of the lane.

REMOVE THE STUPID GATE, ITS A PAIN FOR CYCLES AND ALSO POINTLESS

REMOVE AWFUL GATES

REMOVE GATES - BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD

Please REMOVE terrible gates at ends of each walkway you brutes

Gates at each sides of the cycle paths are a nightmare!!! Cut them ALL DOWN ASAP!!! How many scratches, bumps and swearing do you want you cyclists to be doing? Please Please Please

Bike track is rutted, rocky, great fun, very overgrown, underpasses are pitch black. covered in glass. Ok for me on my chunky bike but not suitable for many cyclists

Bike track - entrance from Lobley Hill side is very hard to see, dark, overgrown, path muddied, slippy, dangerous into subway. Have fallen off here

Visibility out of Nursery Lane is very poor for all types of traffic, and cars come around the corner of Carr Hill Road too fast - maybe the 20mph past the school should be extended?

If no changes can be made to the roundabout as already suggested - there needs to be space to slow down and make a left-then-right turn on to Camilla St and up on to the raised walk way without risk to yourself (from buses behind you), cars coming out of the junction, or pedestrians.

Constantly parked cars making the road very narrow, and on an especially steep part of the hill, making cycling particularly dangerous

Left for The Angel Cycleway
Right for ncn15.
If you go left and then Gosforth tce you can pick up a link path to rejoin NCN14 at Abbotsford road. Flat and much better in bad weather

A grim and anti accessibility barrier

A random and awful barrier in the path.

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The Angel Cycleway path is not great through Wrekenton and this is one of the better bits

For The Angel Cycleway, turn left onto the path beside the radio mast

An old but still awful A frame. Surface quite worn. Then straight over Old Durham road for The Angel Cycleway

For The Angel Cycleway turn left of Whitehill drive and take to the paths across White Hill. The tarmac runs out here

The Angel Cycleway is left onto Whitehill drive.

If you're following The Angel Cycleway then it's easy to miss this sign pointing to the right

The Angel Cycleway takes a left and joins the road here

The Angel Cycleway as it crosses High Lanes. A slightly poor crossing.

The Angel Cycleway though Felling. A nice smooth and wide tarmac path.

A high underpass below the A184
The Angel Cycleway is straight on.

Left to Bowes railway path RCR11
Straight ahead to East Gateshead and Washington
Right for The Angel Cycleway to Wrekenton

Crossing the A185. Pelaw Metro is straight over as is The Angel Cycleway

Pavement is wide enough however people always park their cars on it, despite the No Parking signs on the wall, meaning pedestrians have to walk along the road.
Oddly, bollards have been added to pavements in other (much quieter) areas of this estate but not on North Side between Autumn Drive and Fall Pass where pavement parking occurs regularly each day.

New housing has been built over a number of paths which have been in use for decades. This type of piecemeal nibbling away at footpaths is a significant deterrent to walking as it makes journeys on foot longer and more convoluted.

There appears to be building work which has blocked a path which has been used by people on foot for several decades. This type of piecemeal nibbling away at footpaths is a significant deterrent to walking as it makes journeys on foot longer and more convuluted.

No cycle lane, too many parked cars in Low Fell - maybe needs people and cycle path from Gateshead to the Angel

This section of Bottle Bank is poorly paid out from both a cyclist and a driver's perspective. There's a pedestrian refuge just before Curzon Place (Hilton), and it's unclear which lane the cars should be in. Could one of the lanes going downhill be made a cycle lane?

Also, it's unclear whether cyclists travelling north up Bottle Bank or not? Or whether the safer preferred route is to come up the hill via Church Street. If the latter, there needs better signage for the cyclist down at Bridge Street to head towards The Sage before turning right up Church Street. Also these are some steep hills so segregated cycle lanes/shared use would be very much preferred!!!

This 'temporary' junction is a bit of a 'dogs dinner' with the temporary barriers and traffic lights for cyclists not being clear what they are/are not getting the green light for. The traffic lights are not necessary for most cyclists traveling down West Street and turning right along Askew Rd to the Tyne, or the journey back traveling along Askew Rd and then turning left up West Street.

'Act in haste, repent at leisure' for this cycle junction scheme.

(and the less said about trying to turn the flyover into a cycle route the better!)

For cyclists going north to Gateshead there is a good choice of shared use or bus lane to use.

However on the cycle journey back from Gateshead, traveling southbound, it is unclear when are you expected to cross to the bus lane on the 'correct' side of Durham Rd when heading south, and how this should be done safely.

I suggest making this clearer at the Shipcote Lane / Durham Rd junction with a Toucan crossing OR alternatively providing a clear shared use path to Durham Rd / Prince Consort Rd junction and provide Toucan crossing there.

Poor quality of street lighting at the top of Lynnholme Gardens makes this a very dark section for pedestrians and cyclists during winter. Additional lamp column required to light the top section.

To reiterate other comments in the area, the entire section of National cycle route 14 between Staithes Rd and the Intu Metro Centre needs to be fully re-designed/re-considered. It is a barrier to encourage people to that shopping/leisure location.

Specifically - there's no way that the footway meets current standards for shared cycle and footway, it's very narrow by the shops on Staithes Rd, and by the bus stop, and at other locations due to poor location of street furniture. The sight lines to cross at Kingfisher Court are very poor. Also further along A114 traveling towards the Metro Centre, the quality of the cycle route is very poor due to ponding and tree routes and/or the footway is also narrow again (not meeting current shared cycle route standards).


Alternatively, you can risk cycling on the road, which is not suitable for the novice cyclist, and not pleasant for an experienced cyclist. The quality of the road tarmac is shocking, there's no bus/cycle lane for most of it (but plenty of buses due to the depot). And cars have a tendency to speed around the corner on the A1114.

My suggestion would be to increase the width of the path on the northern side of the A1114 so that it actually meets current standards for shared path and improve the bus stop layout (take away the bus layby) and street furniture (similar to Durham Rd near Bensham), narrow the road entrances to cormorant drive and kingfisher Court to improve sight lines for crossing these. Then widen/resurface the shared route on the footpath going towards the Metro Centre, especially the sections adjacent to the road.

Resurface the road.

This would allow novice and more experienced cyclists to use this section more safely.

Cars fly down Blaydon Bank. Path should be wider to accommodate a cycle lane, parking restricted and speed limit reduced to 20

The last 3 times I have cycled up this road overtaking cars have entered the contraflow cycle lane, which creates a real danger of a head on collision. Suggest put additional signage to warn cars of the bike lane, or widen the bike lane and put in a physical barrier to prevent cars entering the bike lane

PATH IS APPROX 1 METRE WIDE AND PEDESTRIANS PASS WITHIN 30CM OF EACH OTHER FACE TO FACE AS ONLY ONE SIDE OF BRIDGE PEDESTRIANISED. IN COVID 19 UNACCEPTABLE RISK. ALSO UNSAFE DUE TO PROXIMITY OF PEDESTRIANS. BUSY ROAD WITH LIMITED VIEW OF ONCOMING BUSES AND CARS. ROAD IS BUSIER THAN EVER INCLUDING WITH CYCLISTS. SUGGEST TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES FOR TRAFFIC LIGHTS urgently needed.

Stop parking on pavements as this is narrowing pavements and causing vulnerable pedestrians having to share narrow road space with fast moving vehicles irrespective of ineffective speed humps!!

Avenue Road NE8 4JH is a busy avenue on route to Saltwell Park, the Leisure Centre, Library and soon to be Shipcote School, vehicles constantly park on the pavements restricting pedestrians access and making them use the road to make progress! This especially affects wheelchair users and young mothers and fathers with pushchairs along with elderly pedestrians using walking aids. The recent speed humps placed in Avenue Road are really ineffective and do not slow traffic, it would have been more effective to have duplicated existing speed humps that are higher and are more effective!
Avenue Road is an accident waiting to happen as it is used as a rat run avoiding the busier Durham Road especially when the new school opens!

More signs are needed to encourage dog walkers to 'scoop the poop' of their dogs into a dog waste bag, or use "stick to flick" to get rid of dog faeces into the undergrowth either side of paths like Woodhouses Lane. I've put the marker near this access point off Parkdale Rise, as there is an irresponsible owner of a large dog who lives near here, and he lets it defecate in the middle of the nice newly surfaced path. His excuse is that horses and ponies do their business on it, but he’s ignoring the fact that it's a bridleway, and that the faeces of a carnivore is toxic and dangerous compared to a herbivore. There are many more like him. So, all over Gateshead, where there are entrances to rural paths, and on those rights of way themselves, it would greatly help if the council put up signs warning dog-walkers of their obligations.

There is a very slippy slope down from Parkway (road) to Woodhouses Lane, the path that was resurfaced with grit in late 2019 – early 2020. People are attempting to clamber down the muddy slope, especially for exercise during lockdown. Note, the muddy slope is opposite the grassy area between the ends of the streets L’Arbre Crescent and Syron. There needs to be wooden or concrete steps down to Woodhouses Lane from Parkway, and there also needs to proper paths and steps down onto Parkway from L’Arbre Crescent and Syron. This would create through routes giving residents further up the housing estate better access to the countryside, without the risk of injury from a fall.

Narrow, overgrown, muddy path with bad signposting and a barrier that would restrict non-standard cycles. Path is only a hundred metres or so but this isn’t clear on entry and forward visibility is very poor.

Narrow, overgrown, muddy path with bad signposting and a barrier that would restrict non-standard cycles. Path is only a hundred metres or so but this isn’t clear on entry and forward visibility is very poor.

If you come down the path (nicely paved) from the Poachers Pocket on Market Lane and go under the A1, you’re faced with a choice of two routes, the most useful of which is in poor condition. The rightmost is more useful as it goes towards Dunston but is in very poor condition, with mud, huge ruts and puddles. Furthermore, there needs to be a path and cycle route to the left to take you more directly towards MetroCentre, especially Marks and Spencer and the green quadrant, and indeed people have worn a rough path across the grass. The straight-on path is in better condition but it’s rather a long way round into the shopping centre.

Link path to Abbotsford Road

Anti motorcycle and vehicle barrier on RCR11

The start of the path from Leam Lane to Springwell. Don't get excited, the tarmac doesn't last long!

New short section of path where RCR11 crosses Leam Lane in Gateshead and heads up to Springwell

The Bowes Railway Path