MP's anger as bicycle racks removed

.. to provide parking for ministerial vehicles.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jLc0z3ZOTPtxzs36aCyhr-uAE7Qg

from the 'now they know how we feel in Westminster' department.
(thanks to @Carltonreid for finding this.. http://twitter.com/carltonreid/)

Brilliant!
Some of those old boys are so far removed from life its laughable

Old boys and old girls, there's quite a few women on Labour's front bench too, sucking up the cash with their 'expenses'.

Good news for some though, apparently there is only the Strider and another far supirior folding bike (the name of which escapes me) that can fit through the X-Ray machines at the HoP.
Which enables MP's and their cohorts to pedal to work with safe storage when they get there.

http://www.bikeforall.net/news.php?articleshow=797 more details there... questions were asked in the house yesterday. sigh

Hi All,

I'm still in the nursery so maybe someone could repost this for me, if you think it's worth it:

I found this on another forum "When I was at Cavendish Square this week I was walking past one of the cycle bays on street level and noticed some Westminster tags round some locking mechanisms on the push-bike bays. They basicly said that the assumption had been made that this property was abandoned and that if it was still there in 2 days time it would be removed.

The reason these locks are there is because they were quite heavy and I assume the owner goes between their home and that bay and to ride with a security device like that around yourself or your bike would be cumbersome and to use a lighter locking mechanism would be less secure and potentially invite a theft.

It's long been speculated that Westminster will start the march on charging push-bikes by saying that their theft is to high and to curb this they must all be registered. Once that's done it's then much easier to issue fines to them. Could it be thought that Westminster is intentionally trying to make it easier for thieves so they can speed up their own plans to start robbing blind a commuter group that were previously immune to their methods?"

Westminster again , hope this helps someone.