Pensioner urges crackdown on pavement cyclists in my area

[very-near]

The papers 'opinion' column is less than accommodating for cyclist either.

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co...pensioner/article-1158473-detail/article.html

 

[dellzeqq]

my mouse hovered over the thread title and highlighted 'pensioner urges'. I'm just in here to pick up some tips....

 

[theclaud]

my mouse hovered over the thread title and highlighted 'pensioner urges'. I'm just in here to pick up some tips....

I'm afraid there's a crackdown. On pensioner urges. I know this will not come as good news.

 

[661-Pete]

She has some of my sympathy. I am sick and tired of seeing perfectly capable (I think!) and adult (I think!) cyclists, fully kitted up, bowling along the pavement alongside a quiet residential street with barely a car in sight. Do they really imagine that moving those two or three yards to the right, down the kerb and onto the carriageway, is tantamount to leaping off Beachy Head?

But:

Mrs Coles, of Devon Avenue, said: "Twice recently I've nearly been knocked over by people riding on the pavement outside my house. I have a dog and sometimes his lead stretches across the path, and if a cyclist comes along they say 'get that dog out of the way'.

just for the record, I had a close encounter with a dog on a long expanding lead today. This was on the road of course, a quiet country lane, not a pavement, and, like in the lady's account, the lead was strung right across the road. I had no option but to drop anchor and utter a polite but firm "EXCUSE ME!" (I most certainly did not shout "get out of the way") Of course I got a muttered apology from the owner as he reined in his animal. But apologies often come too late...

 

[mangaman]

I'm afraid there's a crackdown. On pensioner urges. I know this will not come as good news.

Absolute disgrace I think.

Both my parents are pensioners and have just rung me to say their urges have been crackdowned today.

By men in orange boiler suits no less.

 

[Origamist]

This is my kind of pensioner:

"A retired teacher has become an unlikely Internet hit in China for throwing bricks at cars whose drivers were ignoring red lights at a dangerous crossing, state media has reported."


http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i5SnLBmAsVa6_ZcNr8K01g7NR4aw

 

[ufkacbln]

I like these... it is always an opportunity to ask if we can clamp down on ALL misuse, and prosecute illegal parking as well, pointing out that more injuries are due by the damage parked vehicles cause than cyclists.

 

[gavintc]

Road tax the scooters and demand that the drivers take driving tests. They are a complete menace and none of them wear helmets,