Stopping motorcycles

[G3CWI]

Our Local Authority has a fixation on stopping motorcycles accessing shared paths. This is frequently misplaced in that they seldom block all the paths to an area. The result of this policy is that more often than not the paths are not easily accessible by other users (cyclists, buggies, cargo bikes, wheel chairs etc). What’s best practice these days? Photos very welcome.

 

[Landsurfer]

Is this a trap ..... are you talking about e bikes by any chance ......

 

[G3CWI]

Is this a trap ..... are you talking about e bikes by any chance ......

No!

 

[Brads]

Bets practice is to educate motorcyclists and then leave them alone.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Penalising the majority in order to stop a few scroats is very poor practice. Depending on the status of the route it's most probably plod's pigeon to deal with under the Road Traffic Act 1991.

However good luck getting them to do anything.

 

[Milkfloat]

Best practice is either a saw or an angle grinder depending on the barrier's construction.

 

[raleighnut]

The best entry solution is a 'Kissing Gate' but they're probably too expensive to build so cheapskate councils just put up bollards too close together.

 

[Hacienda71]

@G3CWI are you talking about the barriers there are to get onto the Middlewood Way etc with the restricted width narrowing towards the top? Not sure what the best solution would be but CEC are dire as a LA at the best of times... Maybe a coded gate system for registered disabled would help people with wheelchairs or recumbent trikes.

 

[G3CWI]

The best entry solution is a 'Kissing Gate' but they're probably too expensive to build so cheapskate councils just put up bollards too close together.

They are a nuisance on a bike.

 

[G3CWI]

@G3CWI are you talking about the barriers there are to get onto the Middlewood Way etc with the restricted width narrowing towards the top?

Not specifically but there are various designs about all of which seem aimed at making active travel less desireable than hopping in a car.

 

[raleighnut]

They are a nuisance on a bike.

I don't find them a bother on the Trike or a Bike

 

[G3CWI]

I don't find them a bother on the Trike or a Bike

The ones round here are very awkward with a long wheelbase bike (e.g. my MTB), and impassable for cargo bikes or for folks with kiddie trailers. I don't think cyclists should continually have to settle for second-best myself. We should be able to cycle as easily on cycle infrastructure as we can on the road or why bother using it?

 

[Hacienda71]

They need something in Wilmslow we have an issue with teenagers on scooters and motorbikes riding on footpaths and shared use paths. There seem to be more barriers in Macclesfield albeit they aren't ideal. Same local authority but council are doing nothing here.

 

[G3CWI]

They need something in Wilmslow

Perfect. You are welcome to collect our barriers. Can you come this weekend?

 

[Drago]

Make a formal complaint that by preventing access for disabled users they are acting unlawfully vis a vis the Equality Act 2010. Several have been removed in Northampton after people have complained on these grounds.

Some of them arent too bad, a little tricky perhaps but with car a wheelchair can get through, but some of them are utterly ridiculous and difficult for an able bodied person to negotiate, never mind a wheelchair or walking frame user, and its these that are open to challenged under the Equality Act.