Bloody Cyclists

[GrumpyGregry]

It sounds like that would have been proportionate! Did they at least detain them after they injured runners?

Were there barriers or rope or tape or whatever or had the organisers misjudged the risk?

barriers everywhere except at designated, and pre-published, crossing points, but some folk have no patience. Fair play, 20,000+ people running an HM is quite a queue to come past you.

 

[mjr]

barriers everywhere except at designated, and pre-published, crossing points, but some folk have no patience. Fair play, 20,000+ people running an HM is quite a queue to come past you.

Why the footboard weren't the crossings closed with at least ropes? Or if it's necessary to have a crossing at such a busy point, build a temporary bridge like the Tour de France did at the London grand depart.

Sorry but it really sounds like penny pinching organisers putting the runners at unnecessary foreseeable risk.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Why the footboard weren't the crossings closed with at least ropes? Or if it's necessary to have a crossing at such a busy point, build a temporary bridge like the Tour de France did at the London grand depart.

Sorry but it really sounds like penny pinching organisers putting the runners at unnecessary foreseeable risk.

That just is not how things are done here.

Danish people are inherently law/rule abiding. If you cross in a red man (illegal) you will get tutted at by the people on the near side and told off when you reach the people on the far side. They would react with utter incredulity at the idea of ropes and bridges and take the organisers to task as such things are utterly uncivilised. And unlike the TdeF, where the caravan and peloton passes in a few minutes, the course of an HM on the scale of CPH is occupied for several hours straight and has dozens if not hundreds of crossing points, and is organised by sports clubs not a huge commercial operation.

 

[mjr]

And unlike the TdeF, where the caravan and peloton passes in a few minutes,

The TdF occupied central London for hours, hence building a bridge for people to cross the course.

 

[slowmotion]

I used to come across a couple of Labradors on the cycle path on the way into work. One call from teh owner, they would cross to the edge, sit and wait

Never caused a problem

I was driving down the road that's on the south side of Battersea Park. It has a zebra crossing at each of the pedestrian exits from the park. An unaccompanied scruffy mutt that the Kennel Club would have sniffed at came out of the park and sat down on the edge of the zebra. I stopped. A motorist coming in the opposite direction also stopped. The dog looked right and left and trotted across. We both howled with laughter. It quite made my day.