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Unfortunately, we cannot be allowed to cycle everywhere.
The thing is that I quite agree, it's just a question of how to manage shared use (that one will run and run).
The main problem in Cutty Sark Gardens (or 'Cutty Sark Expanse of Paving') is really posed by the steps. If it was a fully-level square, shared use would be much easier.
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The cycling prohibition at the entrances to the tunnel, and in the tunnel itself, should go.
These rules are stupid, not people who choose to ignore them. People need to be given responsibility to negotiate space properly and safely. Maybe it's the assumption that WE NEED RULES ALL THE TIME is what makes people ride like pratts, perhaps because once they've already broken the rules by riding, what the hell?
The only enforcement should be to make people not ride like selfish pratts. This is also really pretty easily done given the political will to engender a positive cycling and pedestrian culture in this city. There are rules around shared-use spaces, and they need to be transmitted and if necessary enforced. We must not stop people riding absolutely. BIG difference.
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Oliver Schick
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@Jingle_Jangle
Unfortunately, we cannot be allowed to cycle everywhere.
Just outside the foot tunnel is Cutty Sark Gardens, where cycling is also prohibited.
During the week, Cutty Sark Gardens is a large, flat expanse of concrete, and one would question why one shouldn't be allowed to cycle across it. But at the weekend, Cutty Sark Gardens is packed with people, and cycling can be hazardous.
Leicester Square is the same. You just can't allow individuals (the majority of whom are retards) to make decisions. You have to have socially determined rules, and once you do, you have to enforce them.
Anyway, I am drinking now, so I am going to leave it for a bit.