coruskate said:
I am not 100% convinced. The bit of case law usually quoted is from Crank vs Brooks, where it was said
Originally Posted by Waller LJ
"In my judgment a person who is walking across a pedestrian crossing pushing a bicycle, having started on the pavement on one side on her feet and not on the bicycle, and going across pushing the bicycle with both feet on the ground so to speak is clearly a 'foot passenger'.
(emphasis mine). If you're only dismounting to cross the junction and remounting afterwards, the circumstances are clearly not the same. And you're still in control of a vecicle, so ...
What on earth is a "foot passenger"
I'm guessing that's what I'm talking about..... possibly
The thinking is that you stop at the lights, get off the bike, pull the bike onto the pavement, walk along the pavement and across the crossing, put the bike back on the road, get on and ride off (assuming it's safe to do so). So while you're crossing, you're a pedestrian (or "foot passgenger" ?). Of course, this whole process is probably going to take a similar amount of time to waiting for the lights to change anyway, so why go to all the trouble?
If there's a difference, while crossing, between someone doing this and another person who's simply walking a bicycle, it's surely only in the mind?
