"Call for bike ban after woman knocked over" (by dog and its a cycle path stupid) Cannock Chase Heri

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If anyone knows of the Heritage Trail over Cannock Chase, well its a long distance cycle path.

Story here

http://www.thisiscannock.co.uk/disp...tentPK=20302670&folderPk=94819&pNodeId=190659

 

[Odyssey]

Anyone can be inconsiderate though. You don't have to be on a bike.

 

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The thing is its a cycle path and the impression from the article is that its for walkers. She says that Mountain Bikers should not be on pathways. Its a cycle path!!!!!!

Also dogs like to run and would have still knocked her over even if the cycles were not there.

 

[mickle]

Typical hack, she doesn't 'call for a ban' as the headline says because she is quoted as saying she 'doesn't mind families on slow pushbikes'.

Meanwhile ten people died in RTCs today. Business as usual.

 

[domd1979]

It is a shared use path

http://www.cannockchasedc.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=1106&documentID=474

There's always been tension on the Chase with "cyclists v walkers". When I've been walking over the Chase, cyclists have generally been considerate. There are some that go hell for leather where it isn't appropriate to.

The thing is its a cycle path and the impression from the article is that its for walkers. She says that Mountain Bikers should not be on pathways. Its a cycle path!!!!!!

Also dogs like to run and would have still knocked her over even if the cycles were not there.

 

[ufkacbln]

The common feature here is the pedestrians.

Ban 'em!

 

[CotterPin]

She was hit by a dog - surely they should be banned??

 

[Chuffy]

Ah, another Mail Group owned local rag doing an anti bike feature. Not new at all, our local rag does the same.

 

[dantheman]

BAN ALL DOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - whats the point in them anyway?????????????

arent they born wild anyway..- can i get a lion and walk it without a lead along these paths????

 

[Blue]

BAN ALL DOGS!

I agree.

 

[LLB]

How about ban all dog walking cyclists who are unable to control their dogs whilst cycling, not ban cyclists from a cyclepath.

This is primarily a dog walking problem, and the call to ban cycling on it is a bit nimbyish, it doesn't make any sense to me where she is coming from.

 

[LLB]

She's from the Midlands - they never make sense....

Known as Yoyos in the West Midlands - What Yo doing yo

 

[domd1979]

Cannock ain't in the West Mids, and it has an accent all of its own...

 

[LLB]

Cannock ain't in the West Mids, and it has an accent all of its own...

I know its not, I hired a narrow boat for a long weekend from Kings Bromley and ended up in Cannock last October, however anyone north of Tewkesbury has funny accents where I come from. (saw Dame Ellen Macarthur kayaking on the canal as we passed through Rugeley - in awe of that woman )

 

[domd1979]

I'm from the West Mids, so no problem being associated with it . I take the West Mids as being the West Midlands County as was. Cannock is in Staffordshire

Sorry - but Cannock Chase is in the West Midlands, just as Birmingham is. Hence it has a West Midlands MEP etc.

You may not want to be associated with the West Midlands - but tough, you are. At least I didn't insult Cannock Chasein's by calling them 'Brummies'...