Update: Cycling won’t be banned from Bournemouth prom

OnTheRopes wrote:

Well if the photo on the report is anything to go by it looks pretty unsuitable for cycling, in the summer months I imagine dogs, kids with ice creams and no spatial awareness, families walking as a group, people in wheelchairs etc.

A few people on bikes is one thing but it is not the place for training rides if that is what has happened.

What you've got to be really careful of is when there's dogs with ice creams being chased by kids.

hawkinspeter wrote:

OnTheRopes wrote:

Well if the photo on the report is anything to go by it looks pretty unsuitable for cycling, in the summer months I imagine dogs, kids with ice creams and no spatial awareness, families walking as a group, people in wheelchairs etc.

A few people on bikes is one thing but it is not the place for training rides if that is what has happened.

What you've got to be really careful of is when there's dogs with ice creams being chased by kids or squirrels.

FTFY 

(it's a running joke in my family, about the time I got bitten by a grey squirrel on Brandon Hill in Bristol, offering one a digestive biscuit).

Reckon it is David rides

yep that was me, sorry didnt see this until now.  I didnt say what the echo put, they edited it to make me look like a twat i felt.

I said it was stupid to have people all trying to drive into whats basically a 5 minute walk just to try to park in somewhere where there was no parking, so why not have a park and ride instead? then showed me riding past the queue to show that it was ridiculously close to complain about being stuck in traffic. I never said BAN cars within two miles, i said put the park and rides scheme within that distance of the beach. I never said i was going 12 mph without any effort, i said i was riding at 12 miles per hour without getting sweaty so i would be fine riding to the beach on my bike and wouldnt drive down there, even though i live in ringwood, id cruise it at a slower pace. The editor doesnt seem to like cyclists. https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15504214.watch-cyclist-captures-c...

if youd like a slightly updated version of me holding up traffic in the area, i posted this back as a reply to a gammon commenter on the echo, he said'' why dont cyclists use the shared path alongside the airport instead of slowing the cars down''.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_QrtnpWYoI

the path actually does look ok in parts, i rode past it today on motorbike, but its too narrow in sections, still makes you slow right down to try and cross over with no priority, could be useable going slowly but not worth it on a road bike.