Nuxx:B90bf6ed-d0fe-49e8-a583-b96ebd5f43b1@f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com

Path: number6.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Police Target anti-social cycling Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:54:44 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 28 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.248.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1239400485 21427 127.0.0.1 (10 Apr 2009 21:54:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:54:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.248.79; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2224 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:694493

On Apr 10, 5:03=A0pm, "mileburner"  wrote: > I have just read in our local paper that the police are to target > anti-social cyclists. > > "Residents are concerned that people riding on pavements could cause a > collision" > > "PCs and PCSOs have the power to stop people riding bikes on footpaths an= d > will issue a =A330 fixed penalty to anyone who repeatedly cycles on a > footpath". > > Ok, so we don't get much crime round here but as a cyclist I think it is = a > good thing. We need to get cyclists on to the roads, not only to make the > pavements safer, but also to make the roads safer. In our area pavement > cycling is done by an overwhelming majority, and those who do us the road= , > are often in the gutter. > > Good or bad?

Good if you're a reasonable, sensible person who wants the roads to be safer.

Bad if you're a militant psycholist who thinks that cyclists should be allowed to do what they like in exchange for using a "better" mode of transport than "cagers".