Route Tips and Tricks
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The following maps and descriptions are for two routes to cross town avoiding busy roads and roundabouts wherever possible. Although the routes use quiet roads, please still take care at junctions. These routes are intended to be guides only and are not the only way to cross town - if you have a favourite route trick please let Anthony know!
Crossing Town from West to East
At the junction between Liverpool Road and Chapel Road, there is a special right-turn for cyclists only. This can be used to get from Shelley Road via Liverpool Road and Chapel Road to Chatsworth Road. Currently there is no legal right turn from Chatsworth Road into High Street, but cyclists can dismount and use the pedestrian crossing (useful if the road is busy). The alternative is to use Union Place, turning right at the Safeway roundabout (if you're happy with roundabouts) or to do a careful U-turn in High Street (only possible if there is little traffic).
Crossing Town from East to West
Officially speaking there are only two options: either brave the busy coast road or the dangerous roundabouts to the north. The coast road is the safer of the two, but the following is much nicer.
From Brighton Road follow the road north up High Street, then turn left opposite Safeway and travel west past the Connaught Theatre. Turn left again down Chapel Road, and round the bottom into Liverpool Gardens. Just after Barclays Bank, turn left between C&A and the car park (take care and dismount here if there are pedestrians about). Ride a little way to the left on the pavement/driveway before turning across into Shelley Road.
Other Naughty Things...
You can turn right from Union Place into Chapel Road if you are careful. Either ignore the no-right-turn sign, or turn left and then U-turn around the central reservation. Note that buses overhang the central reservation when they turn left here!
You can, with some care (and only if there is little traffic), turn right from North Street into Ashdown Road. There is a lowered gap in the central reservation. Officially you should dismount to become a pedestrian to do this. It's safest to pull in on the left and wait for a gap in the traffic before crossing.
It is possible to turn right from Chatsworth Road into High Street if traffic is light (i.e. not at rush hour!) by taking the extreme right of the lane and then crossing High Street diagonally to the right to avoid the central reservation. Beware of pedestrians using the crossing though.
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