"No Cycling" signs on Thames Path between Lambeth Bridge and Westminster Bridge

If there are signs then most people (cyclists and pedestrians) are going to think they represent legal reality; so how do you counter this. My first thought would be to get some stickers printed that say "these signs are advisory only....", or words to that effect and stick them to the sign posts.

This sort of thing needs to be properly countered because it's the thin end of the wedge for pesecution of cyclists.

plod advisory stickers - like the ones on albums?

My elderly mother used to enjoy walking her dog, Bouncer, along that path. It was one of the few pleasures left to her after dad was banged up for trying to bring 40 kilos of Moroccan hash weed through customs while off his head on Lambrusco.
Sadly mum and Bouncer (who, incidentally, was born without paws) had to stop after a run in with a cyclist. I say 'run-in' but it was really more a fully fledged assault. How would you feel if a man on a bike, dressed as a pirate, had poked and prodded your mother with a flag on the end of a stick while shouting "Avast ye mateys, make way for the Skully and Crossbones"? All the while cackling and chortling and looking at her in a funny way with his little gimlet eyes?
It was certainly a bizarre incident and enough to stop mum from going there again. I am not saying it means everyone riding a brightly coloured fixie skidder bike should be banned from that path but it is something to think about.

If there are signs then most people (cyclists and pedestrians) are going to think they represent legal reality; so how do you counter this.

Good point.

Much like people being lead to believe that bicycle only belong on the bicycle lane and shouted at those who stray from it, not realising that it's perfectly legal (and safer) to not ride on the cycle lane.

The South Bank is now totally a part of central London, due to the Wheel, Tate Modern etc. joining the RFH/National Theatre. The development of the new American Embassy, Battersea Power Station, and Vauxhall towers meanst that this will intensify.

The politicians and planners need to strategic about this. The area should be the new Amsterdam - totally cycling friendly with minimal car use.

Look at what the road was like today here - a Saturday afternoon.
http://kenningtonpob.blogspot.com/2011/01/where-should-this-child-cycle.html
Would you send your kid out for an enjoyable pootle along this road. As far as I'm concerned, only when they've sorted this road (and the roundabouts) to be commuter and kid cyclling friendly can they talk about banning cycling on the Thames Path. But then anyone wanting to get somewhere in any kind of hurry won't be on it so they won't need to!

Seems like the signs are to be replaced:

"The “[I]No Cycling[/I]” signs that have been erected on the Southbank were advisory and part of an ongoing experiment to tackle aggressive cycling along this stretch of the Southbank; however we recognise that a large number of considerate cyclists have been affected by this decision. As a result of feedback from residents and users of the river walk, we have decided to replace the “No Cycling” signs with the following: “*[I]Pedestrian Priority. Considerate Cycling Welcomed[B]”[/B]*[/I]. The erection of the new signs will take place within the next few weeks.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southwarkcyclists/message/9875

good result. shame it took a couple of grand of council tax money to get the right signs.

+1. Tax Payers' Alliance will be all over that if they hear about it. Not unjustifiably in this case...

#blamekatehoey

im sure they will. and im sure they'll blame the 'overly preciouss pro-cycling lobby' for the whole sorry affair.

still - a result is a result.

/begging the question a bit i know, but the tax payers alliance are as shady a lot of right leaning tories as you'll ever see.