You can get busted in Midtown

What authority do they have to dish out penalty fines? Sounds like extortion.

Zero, just ignore them.

Franchises having their own private police forces? This is all starting to sound like Neil Stephensons Snow Crash. I guess on the bright side that means well soon be seeing magentic harpoons for enhanced car skitching

Also @catcher in the rye, to be fair anyone riding their bike in front of farringdon station is just being a dickhead. There are way too many pedestrians there but I always see morons refusing to dismount. Theres no excuse for being violent though.

Franchises having their own private police forces?

From ES Comments:

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It's the drivers of motor vehicles that need more monitoring. Nearly got run down this morning while crossing on a green man. Some dozy woman just drove through while on her mobile looking at me as if she owned the road. I dont have any problems with cyclists, it's the arrogant drivers that should be monitored. Driving through reds while on their mobile, drink driving, speeding...etc. All these are far worse than a cyclist on the pavement. The cylist is probably on the pavement due to being bullied of the road by these drivers who think no one else should be on the road appart from them.

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Spot.Fucking.On.

I don't see anything wrong here? I mean all they do is punishing those who break the highway code.

Ed, don't be fucking soft. There would be no problem if these were the type of people who had been trained in 'common sense', 'reason' and/or 'humanity'.

Just look at the sorry state of wheel clamping. Some of the stories beggar belief: hursts, ambulances, disabled. Where there is €£$ incentivised work stupidity will reign. These are the kind of pricks that would attempt to fine you if you left a shop and rode straight onto the road i.e. 1 metre travel on the pavement before bouncing onto the road.

I am happy to see divs that stupidly on pavements sorted out but non-cyclist cycle legislation = grief.

What the fuck ! Since when has private business interest been a part of the state ?

What powers do private businesses have over members of the public, this is fucking bullshit, if some street ranger tried to stop me I would tell him to go and fuck off, seriously.

steady on! I already got the issue in hand that it's the rent-a-cop that's the problem, everyone already answered my post.

@ multi.

I don't see anything wrong here? I mean all they do is punishing those who break the highway code.

You are missing the point Ed, the problem is the apparent delegation of state powers to a bunch of - and this is an educated guess - badly trained and officious pricks on the minimum wage - all in the interests of business.

Whoops, sorry Ed, I was too slow . . .

You are missing the point Ed, the problem is the apparent delegation of state powers to a bunch of - and this is an educated guess - badly trained and officious pricks on the minimum wage, who'll never catch you - all in the interests of business.

Fixed

What the fuck ! Since when has private business interest been a part of the state ?

Ages... Do I still own Northern Rock?

ftfa:* Last year 200 cyclists were stopped over four days during Operation Responsible Cycling. Business leaders fear the arrival of Boris bikes — there are seven docking stations, holding up to 176 bikes, in the area — will make matters worse.

ey?
jesus this is a poorly written, sorry excuse for journalism.
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What the fuck ! Since when has private mug interest been a part of the state ?

What powers do private mugs have over members of the public, this is fucking bullshit, if some street ranger tried to stop me using my mug I would tell him to go and fuck off, seriously.

Shit yeah!

Mug Party in Holborn.

and who the fuck is Mark Ames of some twunty website that flogs t-shirts to be telling anyone what their priorities should be on the road? mine's staying alive, pedestrians are pretty far down my list.

"Businesses have ordered their street “rangers” to stop rogue riders"

This is the bit that is problematic for me, if it's the businesses who are 'ordering' (?) their 'street rangers' to stop 'rouge' riders, then the 'street rangers' have zero authority.

Businesses don't own the footpath or the road so I don't see how they could enforce anything except perhaps if you were to ride INTO the shop...

"Businesses have ordered their street “rangers” to stop rogue riders"

Don't fuck about in mid-town you punk...

Twisted!!

I could break it.

You can't break the highway code. It is not law.

Bletchley Park could..

Team Shit on Midtown

From the ES comments section:

Anyone fancy hanging around Farringdon one night next week during rush hour to see if this prick fancies a D-Lock in the face? I mean, yes it's moronic to cycle on the pavement outside a station, but the regard in which he holds his violent anti-cycling vigilance makes me want to provoke GBH from him just so I could get him nicked. What a dickhead.

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From the ES comments section:

Anyone fancy hanging around Farringdon one night next week during rush hour to see if this prick fancies a D-Lock in the face? I mean, yes it's moronic to cycle on the pavement outside a station, but the regard in which he holds his violent anti-cycling vigilance makes me want to provoke GBH from him just so I could get him nicked. What a dickhead.

yeah why not.
i follow the rules of the road and try not to incnvenience motorists but this doesnt protect me from abuse and near misses by fuckwitted cuntards. my lady friend had a van nearly force her off the road a couple of days ago while the the prick in the passenger side hung out the window requesting that she "show her tits".
would be quite pleasant to smack the fuck out of some prick, especially if we can catch him in the act. hypocritical? fuck yeah!

could we invoice the wardens for time consumed while they stopped us? ..double rate of course