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@will_s there are small tracks by the side of the road, eh? they get used now, don't see why people would forsake the park just to walk on the tarmac cause there are no cars.
It's human nature to spread out and use up as much space as possible, especially if it's a novelty that you can walk 'where the cars used to go'. I agree with @will_s in that banning cars completely would make it far worse for cyclists wishing to do laps on the road.
My theory is that the majority of hassle in the park comes from motorists who are using it as a short cut to get from A to B and they're annoyed at being 'held up' by cyclists.
The majority of people who have parked up and wandered around (walkers, runners, cyclists, twitcher-botherers, etc) have less of a sense of urgency to get through the park when arriving/leaving (there are, of course, exceptions).
One of the best ideas I can think of is to have some system of tickets or ANPR cameras and barriers at each gate that charge a small fee for exit except:
- Vehicles leaving by the same gate they came in through
- Vehicles who have stayed in the park for more than, say, 30 minutes
This allows free use of the park but charges for people using it as a cut through.
- Vehicles leaving by the same gate they came in through
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My theory is that the majority of hassle in the park comes from motorists who are using it as a short cut to get from A to B and they're annoyed at being 'held up' by cyclists.
Yet they always drive a little over 20mph, sometime 25mph generally.
Unfortunately there have been some campaign to not "fine" people for parking (!).
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My theory is that the majority of hassle in the park comes from
Different model use in shared spaces:
- People on bicycles and people in cars, on the roadway
- People on foot and people on bicycles, on the Tamsin trail
The default, as ever, is that it is the people on bicycles that are the problem, whereas the truth is probably closer to it being the people that are the problem, irrespective of how they move around.
- People on bicycles and people in cars, on the roadway
edscoble
NotThamesWater
@amey my back is still a little to temperamental for the 30km of there-and-back to get to Richmond and do any significant riding, unfortunately.
@will_s there are small tracks by the side of the road, eh? they get used now, don't see why people would forsake the park just to walk on the tarmac cause there are no cars.
p.s. half the bastards wobbling around Richmond could do with stabilisers anyway, no worries there.