Live blog: World Naked Bike Ride in London to take place tomorrow despite expected disruption, THE COOLEST overshoes ever, plans to pedestrianise London’s Oxford Street binned, BMC TT bike recall + lots more
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bathcycleguy 21 minutes ago
Take a step back, and this looks like a rather silly episode of men with competing agendas and self-appointed positions slinging mud over a strip of green paint with some naff plastic wands. WalkRideBath- lead by a man who apparently knows best on women's safety Dave Dixon- overwhelmed with concerns about heritage in the same park where he had a massive concrete skate park built Bike Mayor/BCC- nice effort lads, but do you not have some women in your ranks who have a voice? And I don't remember the Bike Mayor vote... All bickering over a project lead by a woman who is also the local councillor. Surely in a representative democracy we should give a bit more credit to people who have stood for election, rather than the bunch of self-appointed 'representatives' above?
rbrtribble 6 hours ago
@wtjs "Nothing changes if we don't want it to. I love you", (oops a quote from GEN V). I didn't need to put that last bit in, but hey you write so passionately and so long and obviously have an emotional attraction to cycling. "If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true"
grOg 7 hours ago
@eburtthebike Most of the people cycling mikey confronts with his vigilante behaviour are using their phone while stationary in traffic; while illegal, conflating those offences with the murderous actions of this deviant person is patently ridiculous.
grOg 8 hours ago
@Rendel Harris Of course it wouldn't work; the sort of person that would be banned would have plenty of mates that would fill jerry cans for him so he could fuel his car at home.
grOg 8 hours ago
@BroomBroomBroom I cycle commuted for 30 years, with a number of close passes and a few crashes that gave me pause to consider the risks of cycling on public roads, but what made me give up was a diagnosis of osteoporosis because cycling was my exercise activity and because cycling is not weight bearing exercise, it leads to bone loss; I now mix walking and jogging to commute and have introduced a program of weight-lifting to try and reverse the osteoporosis.
chrisonabike 8 hours ago
More on the "e-bike scourge" from the beeb: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmn068ywr9e1o OTOH well, yeah - stuff that facilitates crime (and is cheaper / easier to get than cars / ICE motorbikes) is gonna be used by criminals. Plus: Well... I'm not happy either with the lack of interest in doing something about the mass sale of things which almost all aren't going to be used legally. But ... like guns? Don't think that's a helpful analogy there.
Sniffer 9 hours ago
@Rendel Harris It should be simpler. In this case, and other cases where individuals drive while banned, there will be many people who know there is a banned driver behind the wheel and turned a blind eye. If we could find a way to make it culturally unacceptable the cases would drop. The change it attitudes around drink driving made a huge difference and it wasn't just the punishment. Unfortunately, we see the media run campaigns on the 'war on motorists' rather than try and change societal attitudes. The sequestration of vehicles as a punishment I think is an opportunity. Car removal, for many motoring offences and if you let a banned driver drive your vehicle I would include vehicles from employers and associates of a banned driver.
eburtthebike 10 hours ago
"Over the course of the evening, your friend made Gabrielle Debotte write a note on her phone with a false account that she had not seen you on the day of the collision at all." I sincerely hope that friend is in police custody awaiting trial for aiding and abetting and perverting the course of justice. And I hope he gets the same judge.
wtjs 10 hours ago
@rbrtribble All accidents including eg: a touch of a bumper should be reported to the police and an interview with a traffic cop before driving away from the scene What sort of dream world is this?! None of these fanciful wishes will happen in the car-crazed 'we'll give you a subsidy so you can drive and park everywhere with no thought to sensible fuel-conserving driving' UK. Sadly, the succession of dreadful Tory nonentity transport ministers has been followed by a succession of equally dreadful Labour ones, all desperate to avoid being accused of the 'war on the motorist'. Lilian Greenwood was charged with implementing the January 26 Government Road Safety Strategy until she was moved to be replaced by another deadbeat intent on doing nothing for fear of upsetting drivers. Labour could fight the established police strategy of ignoring and actively opposing any legislation to the benefit of cyclists, but they won't. The police are intent on protecting motorists from VED evasion, MOT offences, mobile phone offences, white line offences and most importantly cyclist-close-passing offences. I ask yet again for the evidence of effective police action against this latter offence (not the joke advice letter or joke driving course), but this evidence never appears. The obvious conclusion is that this police action does not exist.
eburtthebike 10 hours ago
@kingleo They aren't the only ones!
9 thoughts on “Live blog: World Naked Bike Ride in London to take place tomorrow despite expected disruption, THE COOLEST overshoes ever, plans to pedestrianise London’s Oxford Street binned, BMC TT bike recall + lots more”
Cowardly WCC bowing and
Cowardly WCC bowing and scraping to their fuel burning overlords as per
roadmanshaq wrote:
It’s a dreadful decision.
Come up with a better plan, sure, but this is bad for the street, bad for the millions who use it (not just a few NIMBY locals) and bad for the city. Bad, bad, bad. And it’ll get worse when Crossrail starts pouring tens of thousands of passengers out of Tottenham Court Road and Bond Street.
As I understood it the Oxford
As I understood it the Oxford Street pedestrianisation would have been just that – pedestrianisation, with no provision for cycling.
I’ve mixed feelings about
I’ve mixed feelings about this. Removing the buses and taxis is a good thing but removing cycling is bad; it is used heavily as an East West cycle corridor, there are no alternatives either side of this corridor.
What really needs to be done, as in many European cities, is a high quality cycle path along the street and motors removed.
Neither WCC nor TfL would ever consider doing this so cancelling the whole thing is the least bad option for cycling.
As a regular London cyclist
As a regular London cyclist commuter (100 miles plus every week) I wouldn’t want cyclist allowed onto a pedestrianised Oxford Street. The speeds at which some cyclists seem to think they are entitled to go at on shared paths etc, I think it would simply put pedestrians at risk.
Cyclists are no more entitled to any special dispensation than motorists are if the question is one of pedestrian safety.
perfect1964 wrote:
I think I agree. Central london when busy (in the city, and around it) is horrible for peds walking into the road without looking or caring…and there will always be a minority of cyclists who ride like car drivers – rushed and with no consideration for others. This (now scrapped) scheme would only mean one thingif cyclists mixed – people will turn even more against cycling in the capital. Not what we want.
Not sure of the solution…but proper segregated routes away from here would be best?
Oxford Street is a pretty
Oxford Street is a pretty miserable road to cycle down, not only because of the traffic, but also the sheer number of pedestrians. Even with a cycle lane (which wasn’t in the plan anyway), riding next to a largely pedestrianised Oxford Street would be hellish.
I use Mortimer Street instead.
srchar wrote:
Yep, OS to be avoided at all costs. Likewise Rye Lane on my commute home. I stick an extra mile on each way, just in keeping it as pleasant as possible. Always slightly baffled to see cyclists slogging it out down roads from hell when parallel gems exist. Colleague of mine does it, saying he’d get lost using my routes. Rode home with him on his route once and it was enough to put anyone off cycling in London.
I am a keen cyclist and as my
I am a keen cyclist and as my club demands it a member of Britsh Cycling so have insurance.
I work close to spitalfields and each week have a least one near miss with a cretin on a bicycle going far to fast on the pedestrian area.
If Cyclists wish to have other road users respect them some of them need to start obeying the highway code and laws relating to where they can ride bicycles. That said I no longer cycle commute because after being kocked off no less than four times by innatentive and arrogant car van and truck drivers I am fed up with missing club riding due to injury, I firmly belive the driving test should include on bike cycle training.
As for their pavement hog and unaware road based twits on bikes THEY do nothing to help their own safety ridng along texting, with headphones on or earbugs in, without lights, cutting up the inside of large vehicles, jumping lights etc is just begging to be killed in London.