Smithfields market: Police

If you are taking the cut through smithfields market this week watch out as there are police nicking people £30. They got me poo poo

Where you with no lights or brakes? What was the reason?

You can't cycle through the middle bit coming down from st. john street. It's ok for cars though :S :S

But it's pretty clear since it has barriers and no cycling signs :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this thread. Just reminded me I have one day left to pay my FPN for jumping a red last month, don't fancy paying the next level fine!

it is clear and I was l8 so completely my fault just thought I worn you all

sucks tho!

never cycled through on the way down i like the corners too much! (as long as the taxis coming from the barbican bother to stop)

why is it ok for cars? loading maybe, if so say you're going to pick up a sheep.

billa why is it ok for cars? loading maybe, if so say you're going to pick up a sheep.

say you were looking for a pig

d0cA [quote]billa why is it ok for cars? loading maybe, if so say you're going to pick up a sheep.

say you were looking for a pig[/quote]
you need a car to pick up girls?

well, it is a "meat market"

how long have the "no cycling" signs been up?!

It's the cycle "path" through from Little Britain that i have many issues with...first no one realises it is a cycle route and give you the evils for riding through there...second i have to agree that going through there at speed with the new hospital entrance that offers no view of oncoming cycles makes it dangerous....third is the little newsagents at the West Smithfield end...fourth is the exit across the path into that weird little roundabout where taxis park all around to get there snacks and daily mails from the newsagents....fifth and most important of my gripes is the disappearing sign at the Little Britain end that told cyclists to dismount....it's a crazy set of mixed messages and potential hazards that make this cycle route a real bad scene.....it's a doozer of a short cut though heading north from st pauls to clerkenwell....my point is lost to me but my message to whoever decides upon and maintain these cycle routes is sort it out!!! Avoid confusion and don't have a cycle route right next to a hospital door or don't have a hospital door right next to a cycle route....oh yeah and it saves no time going through Smithfields anyway...look out for raw meat and a lardy surface....go vegetarian and avoid the area.

i think the hospital was there before the bike route.

d0cA [quote]billa why is it ok for cars? loading maybe, if so say you're going to pick up a sheep.

say you were looking for a pig[/quote]
i like sheep better coz i'm welsh

I think after that construction is done for good they will reinstate the bike path near the hospital.

d0cA i think the hospital was there before the bike route.

Very true but the new door with the wheelchair access ramp is a new addition and i noticed today that the "cyclists dismount sign has been replaced by a "pedestrians beware of cyclists" sign....so is it a cycle route again? I wonder if in the days before the cycle lane they had a "pedestrians beware of donkeys" sign...? Can this sign be re-applied today for certain cyclists? Or vice versa the other way round pedestrian/cyclist.....bike lanes seem to be ill thought out wherever they may be...bad,bad,bad.

not the first time buffalo bill said anything about what a mess bike lanes in this city are. most of them don't make no sense at all...

S'funny... we've a Smithfield Market in Dublin too..

jono01 [quote]d0cA i think the hospital was there before the bike route.

Very true but the new door with the wheelchair access ramp is a new addition and i noticed today that the "cyclists dismount sign has been replaced by a "pedestrians beware of cyclists" sign....so is it a cycle route again? I wonder if in the days before the cycle lane they had a "pedestrians beware of donkeys" sign...? Can this sign be re-applied today for certain cyclists? Or vice versa the other way round pedestrian/cyclist.....bike lanes seem to be ill thought out wherever they may be...bad,bad,bad.[/quote]

haha - pedestrians beware of donkeys!