Police tickets

OK, so Crank vs Brooks (I was suspicious about a case between a pedal arm and a well known old fashioned make of saddle) was about someone using a pedestrian crossing whilst pushing a bike. Specifically, the judge cited the issue of starting on one pavement on foot and finishing on the other in the same way.

However, a cyclist who CYCLES up to a junction on the roadway, walks a couple of yards IN THE SAME DIRECTION, still on the roadway, and then starts cycling again is not "on a pedestrian facility", nor is it the case that they are unarguably a foot passenger if the cyclist never leaves the roadway, rather than travelling directly across it from one pavement to another, as a foot passenger would. That seems to me to be arguably the same as driving a car up to a junction, pushing it through a red light and then climbing back in.

At least if you got off the bike, pushed on the pavement to the far side of the junction and then got back on, you'd have a case for suggesting you'd genuinely switched transport modes. Just pushing a couple of yards over a line? I'm not reckoning you'll pull that off against a decent prosecutor.

I avidly await the outcome of the Crown v DJ test case and the inevitable massive bleating afterwards.

Is this your opinion (the bit about "not on a pedestrian facility") or the law? I can't wait for this court case :)