Police set a trap for cyclists riding on the pavement along Leicester's Golden Mile yesterday.
Hurrah!
Cyclist Yatin Valand, 28, of Belgrave, Leicester, was told to dismount when officers spotted him riding on the pavement.
Mr Valand, a printer, said: "This is a dangerous road and it is safer to ride on the pavement – although I know that is dangerous for pedestrians."
Subliminal response: "Screw
those freaks! I'm saving the planet!"
Bhavna Lakhani, who owns a photographic studio in Belgrave Road, said: "I have sympathy with the cyclists and the pedestrians.
"I can understand why some cyclists are not happy about riding on the main road because it is very busy here and the traffic goes very fast."
So, buy a car and keep up.
Ratilal Govind, chairman of the Belgrave United Neighbourhood Watch, said: "This is an issue which people bring up time and again as they are worried a pedestrian will be seriously injured.
"It is excellent to see the police out enforcing the law."
Yes, it is. It makes a refreshing change from them
claiming there’s nothing they can do. Are you listening, Essex Police Farce?
Cyclists ride on pavement because riding on the rode is perilous and your response is; "So, buy a car and keep up".
ReplyDeleteNot very helpful, especially if you aren't in a position to buy a car, either through insufficient money - they're not cheap to buy and run - or because you're not yet old enough to buy a car.
The issue here, from where I'm sitting, is that all cyclists on the pavement are deemed to be hazards, and yet - with the application of some common sense - it is safe to share the pavement with pedestrians as long as the cyclists remember they're 'guests' on the pavement and don't ride with reckless abandon.
I'll be waiting for you Julia to publish the pictures of angry cyclists with their arms folded in the Leicester gazette under the headline "haven't the police got anything better to do"?
ReplyDeleteJaded.
So anti-cyclist, Britain. Must be the lycra I suppose. Mine is rainbow coloured.
ReplyDelete@James Higham -- no, we aren't anti-cyclist, James; we're anti-twat.
ReplyDeleteOur Council love narrowing major roads to widen the pathways which they then label dual purpose for pedestrians and cyclists.
ReplyDeleteMilitants cyclists still keep using the narrowed carriageway clogging them up, twats.
"The issue here, from where I'm sitting, is that all cyclists on the pavement are deemed to be hazards, and yet - with the application of some common sense - it is safe to share the pavement with pedestrians as long as the cyclists remember they're 'guests' on the pavement and don't ride with reckless abandon."
ReplyDeleteYou're expecting responsibility from those who clearly often have none. Their sense of moral superiority leaves no room for it, I think.
"Must be the lycra I suppose. Mine is rainbow coloured."
How progressive of youm James... ;)
"Militants cyclists still keep using the narrowed carriageway clogging them up, twats."
As with any movement, it's the militants who give everybody else a bad name.
"Our Council love narrowing major roads to widen the pathways which they then label dual purpose for pedestrians and cyclists."
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, when I'm being a cyclist and not a cash cow / motorist, is that these widened paths are just an excuse for the local chav mums to walk side by side, with their double buggies, taking up the whole damn path.
@ The Cowboy
ReplyDeleteIt's less hassle to soft pedal or keep schtum on the cycling topics. And you got off lightly with that teasing lycra bait, Higham! ;)
XX Police set a trap for cyclists riding on the pavement along Leicester's Golden Mile yesterday.XX
ReplyDeleteHopefully a cheese wire suspended between two lamp posts JUST at the average height of a bycicle riders throat.