MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I'll cycle on the pavement when it suits me... but I'll bend plenty of other rules if it suits me. I guess it's how I roll
There is a cycle-path near me that I use. It borders the insane A56. You have to negotiate busy side roads, pedestrians, dogs and the entrance and exit of a large petrol station. It then spits you out onto a huge, crazy, motorway roundabout. It is considered so dangerous they built an underpass for the safety of cyclists and pedestrians. However some Walking society or other complained about having to share it with cyclists, so cyclists are banned from using it. I still use the underpass, as do most of the other local cyclists.
Thats just crazy. Put cyclists at risk because people won't share. What's the world coming to?
Thats just crazy. Put cyclists at risk because people won't share. What's the world coming to?
But carving up pedestrians and shouting abuse at them is illegal whether or not cycling is allowed. If you ban cycling somewhere, then those are the only people who still cycle there, but now you've no one else on bikes to set an example, record them on handlebar cameras or (cycle police...) arrest them easily.Maybe the pedestrians don't like their safety being put at risk by reckless idiots on bikes tearing around at road speeds on the pavement? The irresponsible antics of quite a large minority of cyclists does the whole reputation of cyclists no favours whatsoever. Carving up pedestrians and shouting abuse at them for being in the way is not the way to win cyclists any friends.
Maybe the pedestrians don't like their safety being put at risk by reckless idiots on bikes tearing around at road speeds on the pavement? The irresponsible antics of quite a large minority of cyclists does the whole reputation of cyclists no favours whatsoever. Carving up pedestrians and shouting abuse at them for being in the way is not the way to win cyclists any friends.
Road lanes do that. Motorists have to deal with it too, but the ones that affect them worse get fixed sooner with arrows and shoot because they destroy and kill more other things/people when they crash.I find it all a bit confusing. Riding from Slough station there are some areas with the shared space sign, and pedestrian crossings with the combined 'person + bike' green man. But then there are long sections with no signs, but the crossings still have the bike on them - so are they shared pavement? Not been cycling in urban areas more than a couple of days but already its a minefield. And the roads are worse - lanes appearing then disappearing with no warning.
I have the same issue, but for the short time I'm on the pavement it will be forever my defence if I was ever challenged.I find it all a bit confusing. Riding from Slough station there are some areas with the shared space sign, and pedestrian crossings with the combined 'person + bike' green man. But then there are long sections with no signs, but the crossings still have the bike on them - so are they shared pavement? Not been cycling in urban areas more than a couple of days but already its a minefield. And the roads are worse - lanes appearing then disappearing with no warning.
No, it's the price we pay for electing car-crazed and cheapskate councils who won't build cycle tracks to proper standards, so they look indistinguishable from footpaths by the casual walker.There is a new cycle track in Kingston. Pedestrians are always on it making it almost useless. I never comment as I pass them. This is the price we pay for ignorant cyclists using the pavement, it's payback time.