Headteacher demands children cycling to school display number plates

[BoldonLad]

I suppose it means that the bike sheds can go back to being used what they're supposed to be for... In my day that was smoking cigarettes you'd nicked off your dad...

and, no doubt, behind the bike sheds remain for various nefarious users?

 

[Julia9054]

and, no doubt, behind the bike sheds remain for various nefarious users?

Our bike sheds have cctv trained on them. Behind the bike sheds are the windows I to the staff room!

 

[Drago]

One of the last crimes I dealt with before retirement was a comedy job where a would be cycle thief fell through the asbestos roof of a bike shed, all on CCTV. T'was worthy of Frank Spencer.

 

[MartyBenji]

Does the cycling proficiency test still exist?

 

[mustang1]

This isn't the way to encourage and promote cycling to school.... where are they encouraging cycling in their statements. Where are the bike breakfasts, Dr Bikes? Cycle club? and offering cycle training during the school timetable as a positive rather than what sounds like a punishment for bad cycling?

And what are they doing about pupils being dropped off at school with the parents parking on the pavement ? Are they clamping their cars to be collected at the end of the day?

A school near me where parents park on the sidewalk so far in that there is no space left on the sidewalk to squeeze by. I just walk in the road. There is a line of cars following right up next to me.

It's ok, they can wait.

 

[summerdays]

A school near me where parents park on the sidewalk so far in that there is no space left on the sidewalk to squeeze by. I just walk in the road. There is a line of cars following right up next to me.

It's ok, they can wait.

I've been known to stand in the middle of a road blocking it whilst escorting my kids around a car blocking the pavement. Or if the driver was sitting in the car, remind the kids to "not scratch it with their bikes like the last time"

But actually the local police did used to actively ticket cars that were blocking the path and even tow some away.

 

[mustang1]

I've been known to stand in the middle of a road blocking it whilst escorting my kids around a car blocking the pavement. Or if the driver was sitting in the car, remind the kids to "not scratch it with their bikes like the last time"

But actually the local police did used to actively ticket cars that were blocking the path and even tow some away.

That's superb!
Idk for sure, but I think there are local laws that allow drivers to park cars on sidewalk in some places.

 

[summerdays]

That's superb!
Idk for sure, but I think there are local laws that allow drivers to park cars on sidewalk in some places.

They can certainly be ticketed in Bristol for blocking the pavement, though they don't bother if people can get past on the pavement.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

They can certainly be ticketed in Bristol for blocking the pavement, though they don't bother if people can get past on the pavement.

It is againat the law to drive on the pavement, same law that applies to cycling on the pavement.

 

[Laurentius]

Does the cycling proficiency test still exist?

I dunno, but my "stiffycate" was signed off by the dook of Edinburgh himself (rubber stamp probably) and he is still kicking, just about.

 

[Drago]

Its is an offence to drive a motor vehicle other than on a highway, but the prosecution threshold the CPS use is 25 metres.

 

[Drago]

That's why the CPS use a 25 metre threshold for prosecution, as aforementioned by my good self.

 

[mjr]

Does the cycling proficiency test still exist?

Not exactly. Replaced by Bikeability

 

[atbman]

If it prevents kids from cycling to school that's a shame. But for the kids themselves, I suppose it means that the bike sheds can go back to being used what they're supposed to be for... In my day that was smoking cigarettes you'd nicked off your dad...

I learned to ride a bike behind the tobaconists

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I learned to ride a bike behind the tobaconists

What if they headed off in a direction you didn't want to go?