Police in nothing-better-to-do shocker

He was not fining or anything, just telling people that they should slow down, he was kind of cute hiding behind a branch. Last week we were told that the limit on the Common was 5mph. Villa-ru mentioned that a ped got knocked down by a cyclist hence the police presence.

I just hope that people will keep it slow, I would be really gutted it if the Common was to become a no-zone for cyclists.

I went to the 'meeting' on Sat morning.

Apparently the 5mph was made up at some point, but is really a huge 8 mph. Everyone (council, police, common wardens etc) wanted to keep everyone happy, allow cycling to continue including across the 'illegal' bit, but want cyclists to slow down a bit and be respectful of other users of the common. Seemed fair enough.

They are planning to put up 'shared use' warning signs, rather than segregate peds & cyclists, which is also good to see.

...oh - and a note on how crap the council are:

they allocated funds to resurface all the bike paths across the common last year. Then 2 people went on holiday consecutively & by the time they came back the money had been used for something else.

twats.

Thanks for the update Villa-ru.

What about all the boot camp trainings on the Common? Once about 20 of them came charging across the cycle path as I was going along. Very funny!

Sprint towards them screaming "show me your war face" is the only appropriate response.