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Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest
Sunday 31 October 2010
Cycling city York twinned with Waltham Forest
York is one of Britain’s finest cycling cities, second only to Cambridge in its wondrousness. So why do its roads and cycling conditions remind me so much of the London Borough of Waltham Forest? Or anywhere in Britain.
Lendal Bridge.
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