Dog Dirt

[Wodewick]

I don't think that will ever happen to you.

Post of the day!!

[northernladuk]

Oh, in the forum I see a post started by Gricerboy and last post by Wodewick. I had to have a look to see how much tulip was being discussed.. and it was but on topic for a change

[RichardCranium]

Part of my morning bicycle journey to WSM station involves a short jaunt through a pedestrian drumway traversing a rather rundown housing estate.

a) WTF is a 'drumway'?
b) Should you be cycling on the pavement at all?

Highway Code, rule 64:

64
You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement.

Their bold. Their CAPITALS.

[gricerboy]

a) WTF is a 'drumway'?
b) Should you be cycling on the pavement at all?

Hmmm, you raise a very salient point there RC. Drumway is a term that I have been using all my life and have therefore taken it for granted that it was an expression in common parlance.

However, upon Googling the word, I have reached the conclusion that it is a colloquialism. Out of the relevant results returned (with my rather splendid OP being Nos. 1 & 2) the other references to the word seem to be contained in planning related douments on the websites of local authorities EXCLUSIVELY IN THE SOUTH WEST. I also note from my research that "Drumway" or "Drum Way" is occasionally the designated real noun appellation for some thoroughfares, again mostly in the south west. One would assume that these thoroughfares all exhibit the characteristics of the drumway referred to in my original post but hopefully without the dog excreta.

As a corollary to all this, I seem to recall that drumways are refered to as snicketts in some of the northern regions of these islands and I think an interesting discussion could ensue if members of the forum were to contribute their own colloquialisms for these pedestrian thoroughfares.

[gingerjedi]

Hmmm, you raise a very salient point there RC. Drumway is a term that I have been using all my life and have therefore taken it for granted that it was an expression in common parlance.

However, upon Googling the word, I have reached the conclusion that it is a colloquialism. Out of the relevant results returned (with my rather splendid OP being Nos. 1 & 2) the other references to the word seem to be contained in planning related douments on the websites of local authorities EXCLUSIVELY IN THE SOUTH WEST. I also note from my research that "Drumway" or "Drum Way" is occasionally the designated real noun appellation for some thoroughfares, again mostly in the south west. One would assume that these thoroughfares all exhibit the characteristics of the drumway referred to in my original post but hopefully without the dog excreta.

As a corollary to all this, I seem to recall that drumways are refered to as snicketts in some of the northern regions of these islands and I think an interesting discussion could ensue if members of the forum could contribute their own colloquialisms for these pedestrian thoroughfares.

OK, I'll start.

We call them walkways or thoroughfares here.

Gingerjedi
Weston-super-Mare,
South West,
England.

[wobbegong]

OK, I'll start.

We call them walkways or thoroughfares here.

Gingerjedi
Weston-super-Mare,
South West,
England.

Path
Shortcut
Cut-through
Alleyway

Here in Dorset (also in the South West)

[RichardCranium]

You ignored the question suggesting you are a law-breaker:

b) Should you be cycling on the pavement at all?

Highway Code, rule 64:
Their bold. Their CAPITALS.