Target pavement cyclists, say MPs

Look. Firstly, he's a conservative and I don't like his face, glasses or expression.

...Either way - face? Conservative? those glasses?

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the discussion should be about why are there so many kids/adults riding on the pavement? not some lazy-arsed finger pointing by chauffeur driven numpties.
the answer sadly is that so many 'normal' riders are shit scared of riding on the roads, and for all the cycle training in the world, they arent gonna start unless the thing that causes the fear:- the volume of traffic, is reduced.

I think this is all good stuff

Target MPs duckponds, say cyclists

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...I said that there is a disproportionate amount of squawking about a relatively trivial problem.....

My point entirely. Its a Moral Panic. the STandard have been at it, Michael Hodges in Time Out was a while ago, its just your average no-mark columnist beef.

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i went for a ride with my mum a few weeks ago and at a couple of busy intersections she got on the pavement "because it was scary" which to someone who is a very occasional bike rider i can imagine it is.

no way should cyclists be fined for riding on pavements - cars should fined for cutting up/bullying cyclists and intimidating them from riding on the road where they have a right to be

Good post.

C'mon. We need to get some perspective on this. Dammit and a couple of others are, I think, being a bit too dogmatic. You oughtn't get all uppity about people using their discretion, so yes its ok to do things where there are no peds, yet it isn't if there are.

i still think people who refuse to just wait when they can't filter at lights are twerps.