Barriers at Work

[nilling]

Where I work there is a little booth, in which a security man use to sit and you would show your works pass to and they would wave you through. Now they have installed a fully automated barrier system with swipe access. Signs were put up informing cyclists not to use the barrier.

So instead, I would scoot up the dropped curb onto the pavement to the security building flash my pass and scoot back onto the road. Then security put ‘cyclist dismount’ notices in the window, then a pair of cones across the path and finally last week four cones attached with ribbon that blocks the dropped curb.

This morning, they were waiting for me…

I had a pleasant chat with the security guy and basically they want me to walk my bike into work through their cone chicane. I asked him why I just couldn’t use the barrier, surely it poses the same risk as a motorcyclist, he couldn’t answer. He gave a contact name and mentioned a petition, but I think he was just fobbing me off.

Anyone else got unhelpful barriers at work?

 

[wiggydiggy]

Yup!

Had a issue getting into my car park and I was raised as a security incident a while back after a run in with security at the gate, seemed a little excessive as we normally log bomb threats, assaults and burglary etc as incidents!

Arrive, get off, push, get back on!

 

[ManiaMuse]

Bunny hop the barrier.

We have a barrier which they have no problem opening for cars, but just stand there if you cycle up to it and seem to expect you to hop up the curb and over all the rubbish and debris on the pavement.

 

[DrLex]

Wait for a motorist and follow him/her through?

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

drive in one day in a car, stop at the barier, get out and push your car through then get beck in...

 

[Ian Cooper]

This sort of thing really pisses me off. If it were me, I'd refuse to go through other than by the road entrance and I'd tell my boss that security wouldn't let me in and that I was going home until it was sorted out. A cyclist should have the same rights and access as a motorist, and if the barrier is not safe for cyclists, they need to install one that is.

 

[MrB1obby]

drive in one day in a car, stop at the barier, get out and push your car through then get beck in...

Please do this!!

 

[sunnyjim]

We've got a useful one. Big security fence and 24/7 manned gatehouse, but some wee scrote still manged to get in & was spotted poking round the bike sheds. Tried to ride out on one but security guard managed to stop him with the exit barrier. He dropped teh bike & ducked under, btu they also got good video, so he could help the police with their enquireis.

 

[daSmirnov]

Take your car in one day.

Get into an "accident" with the barrier.

Cycle in next day.

 

[400bhp]

This sort of thing really pisses me off. If it were me, I'd refuse to go through other than by the road entrance and I'd tell my boss that security wouldn't let me in and that I was going home until it was sorted out. A cyclist should have the same rights and access as a motorist, and if the barrier is not safe for cyclists, they need to install one that is.

Unless you have car parking as part of your employment contract this might create more problems than solutions.

 

[Ian Cooper]

Unless you have car parking as part of your employment contract this might create more problems than solutions.

Well, if they are going to create a problem for me based on idiotic security issues, they would be welcome to try to find someone else to do my job as well as I do it. I prefer not to work for fricken idiots who value incompetent security over competent labour.

 

[srw]

Get over it. Pushing your bike for a few yards isn't a big deal.

 

[400bhp]

Well, if they are going to create a problem for me based on idiotic security issues, they would be welcome to try to find someone else to do my job as well as I do it. I prefer not to work for fricken idiots who value incompetent security over competent labour.

And I prefer to deal with adults too - see SRW's reply.

 

[Ian Cooper]

Get over it. Pushing your bike for a few yards isn't a big deal.

Which is probably the same sort of reasoning white folks in the US southern states used, before the 1960s, to get black people to sit at the back of the bus and use 'blacks only' benches and water fountains.

They probably also claimed that those who complained were not being adults - just childish and 'uppity' negros.

Discrimination never seems like a big deal when you aren't the one suffering from it.

 

[StuartG]

Which is probably the same sort of reasoning white folks in the US southern states used, before the 1960s, to get black people to sit at the back of the bus and use 'blacks only' benches and water fountains. Discrimination never seems like a big deal when you aren't the one suffering from it.

I am truly shocked you should implicitly equate these two issues.