Motorists who park their cars near Sandy Lane on Wolviston Road, Billingham, might be excused for thinking the strip of wide asphalt in front of the 1930s houses is a service road. But should they attempt to drive along on this strip, they would soon find themselves on a route to nowhere for motorists.This 10-foot wide, one-mile-long kerb-protected 'service road' is, in fact, an 85-year-old Dutch-inspired cycleway.It's one of more than 100 such hidden-in-plain-sight cycleways that I uncovered as I travelled around the UK during a seven-year project to research and rescue these largely forgotten stretches of government-funded infrastructure.
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