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Exactly.
As said before if people were driving there for a 6am meet, then that could be disruptive to local residents and RBWM and Lee need to work together to deal with it, but it sounds like a resentful former owner and his sidekick from the start, who just happen to be a RBWM councillors, and the whole thing has been dealt with disproportionately and in a rushed way by the Council.
I do wonder as well whether this is a bit of a Boxhill syndrome of disgruntled local residents who dont like being held up by the increased number of peletons on the local lanes, finding a way to express frustration. I am very local to the Cafe and see them quite regularly, but its nice to see so doesn't bother me*. Ironic that this issue has lead to far more club runs to the Cafe to show support.
*Although the groups dont help themselves at times as I have seen some terrible standards of cycling. Its not difficult to pull over and let cars past if you have a queue of 10-15 cars behind you? And when you do stop, why not indicate and pull over just like any other road user, rather than just stopping in the middle of the road?
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Hopefully leader of the council can put a lid on this. Massive conflict of interest here and disciplinary action required. It’s just been so botched and badly handled. Especially the fact letters went out to local clubs, whoever authorised clearly didn’t get any legal advice, council budgets and that ...
I know it’s probably a massive stress for Lee and the guys, but he’s had some stellar free PR recently... every cloud etc...