"bicycle" in bus lane - £30 fine (quite funny)

[very-near]

Balance and braking tend to be the problem when scooting as you don't get that much momentum.

It is a lot easier to push a m/bike than scoot it (unless you are on a downhill slope)

 

[thomas]

I've never exaggerated your riding ability.

At least I'd never be in a situation where I'd be sent back for jumping a red light or going on the pavement. For all my faults, I've got the basics down.

 

[MadoneRider1991]

lol

 

[MadoneRider1991]

lol good vid

 

[Arch]

I would have told him/her to sod off. I am sure you would have something to say if you were turned around on your bike because you may start cycling on the pavement or jump a red light. Sounds like a right officious little nerk to me.

The 'officious little nerk' you describe was simply enforcing the rules at her place of work. There are plenty of scumbags around there who'll simply ignore rules if it suits them - like the ones in the car who rammed the recycling collection truck in order to drive through. We get a bit fed up of people taking the piss, to be honest.

In the case in point, cyclists, and children on scooters are allowed, so they are not relevant to your argument.

Anyway, the lad had a scooter, with an engine. It would have taken him very little time to go round the correct way. I suspect he just couldn't be bothered with the set of traffic lights he might have to stop at.

 

[very-near]

The 'officious little nerk' you describe was simply enforcing the rules at her place of work. There are plenty of scumbags around there who'll simply ignore rules if it suits them - like the ones in the car who rammed the recycling collection truck in order to drive through. We get a bit fed up of people taking the piss, to be honest.

In the case in point, cyclists, and children on scooters are allowed, so they are not relevant to your argument.

Anyway, the lad had a scooter, with an engine. It would have taken him very little time to go round the correct way. I suspect he just couldn't be bothered with the set of traffic lights he might have to stop at.

I have from time to time pushed my m/cycle through parts of town to avoid making a massive detour which the badly planned one way system enforces. a 50 yard push can save a 2 mile loop there.

 

[Arch]

I have from time to time pushed my m/cycle through parts of town to avoid making a massive detour which the badly planned one way system enforces. a 50 yard push can save a 2 mile loop there.

Pushing, as I said, would have been ok. We just suspected that scooting, he would have turned the engine on as soon as he was past the centre, and ridden off. It's a cycle and foot path, used by families walking to school, so it's not just a whim to keep motorised vehicles from using it (and he'd have saved a quarter of a mile, at best, I reckon)..

Of course, if the lad got a bike instead, he'd be welcome to ride through the short cut.

 

[very-near]

Pushing, as I said, would have been ok. We just suspected that scooting, he would have turned the engine on as soon as he was past the centre, and ridden off. It's a cycle and foot path, used by families walking to school, so it's not just a whim to keep motorised vehicles from using it (and he'd have saved a quarter of a mile, at best, I reckon)..

Of course, if the lad got a bike instead, he'd be welcome to ride through the short cut.

Provided it had cycling rights of course

 

[very-near]

You've got a problem with bikes being allowed where motorbikes aren't haven't you? It says in the post you quoted that it was a cycle path.

Me, I revel in the superioirity of the unpowered 2-wheeler over the power-assisted ego machine.

I have no problem with motorcycles being excluded from cyclepaths and would tell a rider to get off if I saw them on there or a bridleway myself, but don't see the point in excluding them from bus lanes which are part of the main road network.

Where do you get this superiority thing from MrP, and why do you feel so threatened by motorcyclists as individuals to make such a statement ?

 

[Arch]

Provided it had cycling rights of course

Which part of 'it's a cycle path' don't you understand?

 

[thomas]

Think about it Arch, you took one look, made a judgement and discriminated accordingly. You could be a correspondent on the Jeremy Bloody Vine show.

Well, I don't think it's fair to assume she should be out stopping child molesters just because she asked someone on a scooter to push it rather than scoot it along.

 

[HLaB]

Lol, I can think of a few better ways to spend £30

 

[thomas]

Now thats a good point, very well made. It is sadly completely irrelavent to anything we are discussing, but a great point none the less. Besides, I believe that if Arch saw a child-molester in action she would probably kill him, most likely with her bare hands.

Maybe I should have quoted this to make my point clearer:

I bet there are lots of rules that she chooses not to enforce

Just because she doesn't choose to enforce other rules or stop illegal things from happening doesn't mean she shouldn't be able to enforce any rules.

 

[very-near]

Maybe I should have quoted this to make my point clearer:



Just because she doesn't choose to enforce other rules or stop illegal things from happening doesn't mean she shouldn't be able to enforce any rules.

You can bend the rules to your will when you are feeling particularly sanctimonious. This thread is a good example of that in practice.

Some people just like throwing their weight around with kids to make themselves feel big.

 

[very-near]

Thomas, are you seriously suggesting that a nature reserve near York has a rule which states "No interfering with children near the hatchery or duck pond"?

Interfering with children is illegal, we should all intervene if we see or suspect it.

Not tucking your shirt in at school is against the rules.

Are you able to see the difference?

In this case a humorless jobsworth saw a young lad and thought "Aha, rule 17, I'll send him around the long way, then I will have done something good and of importance" I am willing to bet she would not have done the same thing to me. Therefore she made a decision, and discriminated on the basis of that decision/pre-conception. For crying out loud, they did it on the basis they thought that maybe there was a possibility he may do something It's about consistency, she will make decisions at times to let things go, we all do. On this occassion she, and dare I suggest Arch, wielded their tiny little bit of power in an inappropriate way.

Now you're for it

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