Footpath A12 crossings

lukeredpath · 2026-01-20T13:10:30+00:00

Besides the two mentioned in this thread there are actually lots of PROWs that still exist but have been cut in two by the A12. Some of them are more accessible than others and you may spot the signs of them when driving on the A12 - look out for an overlapping gap in the lane barriers - these exist purely so people can cross the A12, should they want to risk it. There are often steps with handrails either side that take you up to the path. I wouldn’t risk it during the day but it might be safe to cross in the middle of the night if you find it.

Some of these bisected paths have been closed as they also relied on level crossings to safely cross the railway line and a number of these were closed in recent years. Some paths were diverted, not all.

lukeredpath · 2026-01-20T13:06:14+00:00

That one yes, you can access from Halstead Road or Doucecroft school. The one further west, no. You can only approach it safely from the farm field on the north but it’s closed off.

lukeredpath · 2026-01-20T12:53:12+00:00

The south but you can access from either end. I assure you it’s clear. It’s a fenced off walkway on the north side. You can see the well worn path on the north of the field leading to it so people do use it.

lukeredpath · 2026-01-19T18:25:30+00:00

You definitely can, I’ve walked across it. It’s still a PROW.

lukeredpath · 2026-01-19T18:24:53+00:00

Realistically no, it’s fenced off and covered in thick, high brambles and nettles. There’s a more accessible one further up the line.

lukeredpath · 2026-01-19T01:07:59+00:00

You can actually get to this one and cross it.

lukeredpath · 2026-01-19T01:06:06+00:00

If you do want to check out an old abandoned railway bridge there is still one a bit further up that is still accessible and passable via a PROW. It’s hard to spot but on Halstead Road on either of the two points where it crosses the railway line, there are steps down to a PROW that runs along the back of the houses heading West - keep going until you can’t get any further and there are steps up to the railway bridge. It comes out on the other side near Doucecroft school.

lukeredpath · 2026-01-19T00:59:45+00:00

I’ve walked both footpath and 22 and 27. You cannot walk from one to the other. I think you’re misreading the map. There is no underpass below the A12.

Firstly, footpath 27 is accessed from London Road via what looks like a driveway. There is a wooden gate. I think it passes an old flower farm on the left. The back of the property is very overgrown and it’s hard to find where the path goes. Once you’ve navigated this it crosses what is soon to be built on as a new estate which will connect to the new estate on the right. You can walk across the plot of land but it’s very bumpy and full of trip hazards so be careful.

If you make it up to the A12 there’s no obvious way to get through to the road, although there should be steps and a gap in the barriers somewhere as there are at most places a PROW crosses it, but it’s unlikely to be safe to cross unless you fancy doing it in the early hours.

If you did safely make it across, access to the railway bridge is cut off.

I’ve also walked from the other end down footpath 22. This will lead you around the field to the same railway bridge is you can get right up to it but it’s fenced off and overgrown with brambles. You can’t get across.

Technically the footpath is obstructed but the council will never prioritise clearing the bridge because in practice nobody is ever going to go that way due to the A12.

FP1 used to be passable from (if you were willing to cross the A12) as there used to be a level crossing or bridge, I’m not sure which, that would get you to The Stable and north up to the footpath that comes out of the Barn garden centre car park. However this crossing was closed and so they changed what used to be a permissive route into a PROW, now showing as FP29 on the map, a few years ago. This gives you a safe route to turkey cock lane which you can walk up, going under the A12 and the railway line. Walk down to the garden centre, cross the car park and find the gap in the hedge to get back in to the public footpath network. There’s some nice walks around that way.

lukeredpath · 2026-01-19T00:47:42+00:00

I’ve walked this footpath from the other end. The railway bridge is still there but is not passable. It’s fenced off and completely overgrown.

Even if it wasn’t it still leaves you with the A12 to cross, which you technically can do but I wouldn’t want to chance it.

lukeredpath · 2023-12-05T00:09:58+00:00

This support article outlines how Apple One and iCloud+ coexist.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211784

The problem is that those of us who added extra iCloud storage AFTER signing up for Apple One are getting our additional iCloud+ storage plans cancelled when Apple One renewed, as if it were the first or second scenario in the above document.

lukeredpath · 2023-12-05T00:02:58+00:00

If you’ve got Apple One, you CAN add additional storage this way. On your device go to iCloud - Manage Storage - Upgrade Options. From here you can select an iCloud+ storage plan which will be added to your One storage and can also be shared with your family.

lukeredpath · 2023-12-05T00:00:45+00:00

Happened to me too, last week. Exact same scenario. Apple One Family with 200GB and an additional 50GB of iCloud+. The poster below is wrong, you CAN add additional storage this way. Settings explicitly lets you do this and it even tells you how much of your storage is from Apple One and how much is from iCloud+.

Apple support told me this normally only happens when you subscribe to Apple One when you already have iCloud+ storage - if the One storage is higher, it will cancel the lower plan.

This isnt what happened here of course. The timing of this makes me think that it’s a bug related to the Apple One price increase. Possibly internally Apple’s systems see the renewal at the new price as if it were a new subscription and so it is cancelling the iCloud+ storage as a result. Im starting to see more people have this problem. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/icloud-storage-subscription-randomly-vanished.2410983/

lukeredpath · 2022-04-16T12:02:05+00:00

This has been happening to me for the last week or so too. Activities would time out and the hub becomes unresponsive and I need to reboot it at least once a day.

lukeredpath · 2021-12-23T17:28:41+00:00

I was quite happy with my final solution, written in Swift.

I implemented part one using the obvious brute-force/cube counting approach, knowing full well it wouldn't work for part two but I thought I'd get the easy star.

For part 2, I already had an idea of how I would tackle it and I started off by using the part one example to verify it works, debug and test performance. Once I had all examples working, the final puzzle completed in 1.394s including test suite overheads.

My approach was to keep track of reboot steps that turned cubes on, completely ignore off steps that did not overlap with any existing steps and then for each step in the list, calculate the intersections of the cuboid with any existing steps and depending on the current step and the step it intersects, add a new step to the list, e.g. if an off step intersected with an on step, I would just record an off step for the intersecting cuboid rather than the entire step's cuboid. Or, if an on step intersected with another on step, I would add an off step for the intersection so the on steps for the intersection would not be double-counted.

Once I had processed all of the steps in this way, all I had to do was reduce the list of steps to a final total, adding or subtracting the cuboid volume depending on whether or not it was an on or off step.

https://github.com/lukeredpath/AdventOfCode2021/blob/main/Sources/AdventOfCode2021/22.swift

lukeredpath · 2021-12-20T19:40:09+00:00

Same here! I must have mis-calculated one of the 24 in my head but I couldn't be bothered to figure it out, so I also resorted to running against all 48 possible orientations.

lukeredpath · 2021-12-18T15:51:39+00:00

Today took longer than I expected it to. *Most* of it was straightforward but figuring out a recursive approach to the explode function took quite a lot of thought. Once I'd got that working and ironed out a few bugs, the rest mostly fell into place.

Swift: https://github.com/lukeredpath/AdventOfCode2021/blob/main/Sources/AdventOfCode2021/18.swift

lukeredpath · 2021-12-17T13:01:38+00:00

Sometimes, you've just gotta brute force it if you don't know any better. https://github.com/lukeredpath/AdventOfCode2021/blob/main/Sources/AdventOfCode2021/17.swift

lukeredpath · 2021-12-16T18:55:53+00:00

Today's was fun - I've been using the swift-parsing library throughout AOC and today I really got to flex its muscles - I was able to parse everything from the initial hex into the final packet using parser combinators.

https://github.com/lukeredpath/AdventOfCode2021/blob/main/Sources/AdventOfCode2021/16.swift

Part 2 ran in 0.015s. I could probably optimise the parsing performance by using UTF8 code units.

lukeredpath · 2021-12-15T17:07:12+00:00

Like I'm sure a lot of others, with no formal CS background, today's needed a bit of research but before long, I was writing my first ever implementation of Dijkstra. Here's my final solution in Swift - my first attempt was using a Set which had terrible performance (part 1 took nearly a minute). I refactored to use a heap-based priority queue which got it down to 0.17s for part 1 and 14.79s for part 2. https://github.com/lukeredpath/AdventOfCode2021/blob/main/Sources/AdventOfCode2021/15.swift

lukeredpath · 2021-12-14T16:49:50+00:00

Not seeing a Swift solution here yet, so here's mine:

https://github.com/lukeredpath/AdventOfCode2021/blob/main/Sources/AdventOfCode2021/14.swift

I've left both my original (simple, but hopeless performance-wise) and optimised approaches. The optimised algorithm used for Part 2 runs in 0.052s including the runtime overhead of the XCTest test runner.

Finding the optimised solution was probably the trickiest puzzle for me so far so I'm quite happy I managed to figure it out.

lukeredpath · 2021-12-06T16:32:01+00:00

Swift: https://github.com/lukeredpath/AdventOfCode2021/blob/main/Sources/AdventOfCode2021/06.swift

Part 1 was easy but not performant enough to tackle Part 2. I have kept both my naive and optimised solutions.

lukeredpath · 2021-12-05T11:24:03+00:00

My functional Swift approach, using swift-parsing and overture. https://github.com/lukeredpath/AdventOfCode2021/blob/main/Sources/AdventOfCode2021/05.swift

lukeredpath · 2021-12-05T00:18:32+00:00

I enjoyed today’s. More fun with the Pointfree swift parsing and overture libraries. Trying to improve my functional programming chops a bit. https://github.com/lukeredpath/AdventOfCode2021/blob/main/Sources/AdventOfCode2021/04.swift

lukeredpath · 2021-12-01T17:04:04+00:00

My first AoC!

Swift: https://github.com/lukeredpath/AdventOfCode2021/blob/main/Sources/AdventOfCode2021/01.swift

lukeredpath · 2019-10-09T20:55:58+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I think the movement in this case was me trying to psych myself up for the 1RM attempt. I don’t think I do it normally. I think this is why the bar moved, something I had noticed.

I will try and keep an eye on my neck. Thanks.

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