You can get busted in Midtown

^oh, tongue in cheek of course. by the above statement i mean, attempt to photograph said person in the act of assualt and perhaps hold him until police officers arrive.

So want to change this thread to 'bummed in Midtown'..

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

They have no authority to stop you, if they try you can simply tell them to fuck off and then go about your day.

theres actually a cycle lane right in front of Faringdon station, you need a foghorn on the bars trying to navigate it though

They have no authority to stop you, if they try you can simply tell them to fuck off and then go about your day.

goes up to Holborn and starts doin wheelies and bunny hops outside the tube

goes up to Holborn and starts doin wheelies and bunny hops outside the tube

Meet you there later

will they be able to shoo the heaving mass of humanity along when holborn tube shuts due to platform overcrowding thereby making the pavement impassable?

Will they stand there and watch a cyclist lie dying at the side of the road after being hit by a lorry, because they weren't trained for that scenario. Much like a couple of those PCO tossers did when they saw a child drowning in a lake?

Firstly, what marketing wanker thought of Midtown?

But now it seems if business leaders are going to start telling us what to do.
It makes me sick

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23868832-street-rangers-to-crack-down-on-rogue-cyclists.do

tbh I only clocked through to see what asshole was posting "Midtown" on the forum :OD

Last year 200 cyclists were stopped over four days during Operation Responsible Cycling.

sniggers

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.
For who? Taxi drivers?

Tass Mavrogordato, chief executive of inmidtown, said: “We encourage cycling in the district and welcome the Mayor's new bike hire scheme.

Lies!

However, we need to ensure responsible cycling, for cyclists' own safety, as well as that of pedestrians.”
Statistics please.

A spokeswoman for inmidtown stressed that “poor and anti-social” cyclists were in the minority.
So that would justify 'targetting' all cyclists with silly rent-a-rules....

Outrage is so therapeutic.

IN

1. Catcher On The Rye
   
2. Pistanator
   
   

Lolz.

Here's an idea though - if WE were to set up a private company, or community group, registered in a certain locale of London, could we have cycle ranger teams lording it around ticketing vehicles and pedestrians for highway code-breaking or intimadating behaviour? With matching uniforms and caps?!

Someone mock one up!

Special move could be to do a synchronised fixie skid in pincer movement to trap the offender and d-lock them to a lampost before the feds arrive.

They have no authority to stop you, if they try you can simply tell them to fuck off and then go about your day.

This^, same as private CCTV giving away parking tickets, you're not obliged to pay, just ignore them... as I said before.

Someone mock one up!

/paint power!

^^^^^

yes!

midtown my arse

if any of these plastic policeman stop me I will be disregarding anything they say, unless they can tell me which law gives them the power to do so

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...

Trackstand comp in Subway. That's what I'm fucking talking about.

is it illegal to trackstand on a pavement? without going anywhere?

So some random dude(s) wearing some sort of high-vis jacket and clipboard can 'attempt' to stop you for what ever fucking reason and issue a fine/demand payment for some pony ass infringment?

Open to abuse i'd say - humm bit skint 'dons high vis jacket - stops random peds/cyclist' spouts some random shite about safe cycling etc etc issues fine - or on the spot fine - frog marched to cash point - £10 up result!!!!

So some random dude(s) wearing some sort of high-vis jacket and clipboard can 'attempt' to stop you for what ever fucking reason and issue a fine/demand payment for some pony ass infringment?

Open to abuse i'd say - humm bit skint 'dons high vis jacket - stops random peds/cyclist' spouts some random shite about safe cycling etc etc issues fine - or on the spot fine - frog marched to cash point - £10 up result!!!!

tenner seems a bit suspect, better make it thirty.

lets just hope they dont find the central drinks thread eh?

Just trying to get a handle on all the people, in different uniforms, wandering the streets of central london who can tell me what to do... and in no particular order....

• Police officer (Met)
  
• Police officer (City of London)
  
• Special Constable (Met)
  
• Special Constable (City of London)
  
• PCSO (Met)
  
• PCSO (City of London)
  

• Traffic Wardens (though not seen one for a while)

• City of Westminster Fine Enforcement Officers

• Camden Fine Enforcement Officers

• Heritage Wardens (Trafalgar Square)

• Red Caps (Oxford & Bond Streets)

• Aren't there some people in Green-Caps?

• Mid-town Orange-jacket-ones

Sorry, I stopped, I got bored.... I have no issue with the first list.... it's the growth of the powers of the second that makes me think......

This is what is meant by big society... that average people can do the job of the police so that the police numbers can be cut.

This is a load of bollocks.

See, this was my poorly executed point after the mission bags party.
I was stopped (literally, he ran after me and grabbed my handle bars) by a security guard for riding, fairly slowly, down a part of Brick Lane that quite often has a large number of peds in it , but is STILL a public highway.
I will agree that it wasn't the best time and I wasn't on the best state, but I still want to know by what right a hired goon could stop me from riding on a road that people pay taxes on.

That and I hate security guards.