On 9/5/05 4:13 pm, in article
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Just recently someone has erected a "kissing gate" on the tow path just
past Iffley lock on the Thames in Oxford. Before hand there used to be
a gate

This renders it almost impossible to take a bicycle through, although
it can be achieved with great difficulty.

It is obviously known that this route is used by a lot of cyclists, and
obviously someone somewhere has decided they don't like cyclists and
are doing their best to block them. Now short of (illegally) tearing
this gate down, what exactly can I do about it?

1. Find a family with a trailer and the local press.

2. Find a disabled user of the towpath and bring an actionunder the
Disabilities Discrimination Act if you cannot get the wheelchair through the
gate.

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