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The lift operators had it right: be a dick, and you're walking up the stairs; ride slowly or scoot, give way to pedestrians or walk when it's busy, and you're fine to get in the lift.
Yes. I remember.
Courteous cycling permitted - pedestrians have priority - Now that is a great idea but the problem is a society of fuck you you can't stop me. So we make laws for the lowest common denominator.
lynx
Agreed - the rule needs to be something like 'Courteous cycling permitted - pedestrians have priority.' Some variant of that works (or at least is on the signs) along various bits of the Thames Path, so I assume it's got some official traction.
As Oliver says, cunts will be cunts whatever the rules say, so the only purpose of a prohibition is to criminalise (well, turn into bylaw-breakers) those riders who ride courteously while disobeying the rule, and to delay and intimidate those riders who obey it even when it is pointless.
The fact there's vanishingly little enforcement (and almost none practically possible) simply confirms how futile the current bylaws are.
The lift operators had it right: be a dick, and you're walking up the stairs; ride slowly or scoot, give way to pedestrians or walk when it's busy, and you're fine to get in the lift.