Personally I never ride at night. The roads around the Bournemouth/Poole/Christchurch conurbation are no place for a cyclist, particularly a 72 year old in the daytime, let alone at night. Bournemouth is second in the whole country after London as the most accidents per square mile, and that's mainly in the daytime. https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18814145.bournemouth-second-dangerous-city-uk-drive/ The only ride I do without driving my car (bike on the rack) to a safer area and riding from there is the one through the Bournemouth Gardens to the sea front at Bournemouth Pier. That entails just a short stretch of road called Glenferness Avenue, a very wide road through very expensive properties (most at £2m+) to the gardens. There is a painted bicycle line on the side of the road, with a nice lot of tree roots all the way along....
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