Police campaign against riding on pavement sees just two cyclists a day warned or fined

jobysp, i'm with you on that! Woah i like the lucozade video, the little swines! Kids can be such a pain sometimes with parent not bothered where the are. I'm glad you chased after them! Good on ya! I bet if you'd av found their parents they'd av shouted at you for telling their kid off, bring back the cane!!! lmao

dave

Dave6779 I sympathise with you mate.

I cycle round Manchester every day and it has to be one of the worst experiences of my life! (Check out JobySp on youtube for video proof).

I think, in the year I've been cycling too and from work, I've managed to get away with 5 days without any incidents!

As for the above post - I might cycle over to Bury and up the street to see what all the fuss is about - watch out oldies - I'm a coming for ya!

That's right Manchester police missing the point again. Lets crack down on cyclists not gangs of youths threatening old people. On my way to uni last year i was knocked off my bike by a car, i have mentioned it in an old post, i was wearing a high vis jacket, using my lights and it was my right of way, yet this lady just didn't see me, well she did, but only when i went over her bonnet. So obviously i was a little scared to cycle on the road for the rest of the day, so i cycled on the pavement and on designated cycled paths and 3 youths (about 17-19) stopped me and tried to steal my bike on the way home, this was only across the road from the police station, i went and told the police and they said sorry there's nothing we can do. What a joke. What a day too talk about unlucky.

dave

She sounds like Mrs Brady Old Lady from Viz - some of these mobility scooter people are a menace. They'll be mugging hoodies next.

I've had to jump out the way of a mobility scooter a few times now. Some of those things can shift and given that many of the operators have poor eyesight and reaction times, they aren't exactly under full control.

The "pedestrianisation" of streets was initially a good thing as it excluded motor vehicles, diverting it around the area. However it makes no allowances for cyclists who would have used the existing route and now face having to follow the diverted route or chance it through the precinct. Speculating on how many cyclists avoided being stopped is useless. This smacks of demonisation by the Daily Mail brigade in the same vein as the hoodie threat.

I would say that the increasing number of powered mobility scooters driven at high speeeds poses a bigger danger to pedestrians in this area than cyclists. Lets see how a campaign where they are stopped and fined is received.

Julia Mcloughlin... "People cycling on the pavements has been a problem in recent years because sometimes they don't realise how fast they are going and it is unsettling for elderly people."

Be interesting to know how many cyclists over the recent years for a start and how many unsettled old people she's spoken to over these recent years?

And now they've got rid of the cyclists - lets now concentrate on the joggers - they're going much too fast for the old people - and with those pesky ipods on too!

I also wonder how many times Julia has gone above the 30mph speed limit in her car, or the 70mph on the motorway? Or done 30mph in a 20mph zone? Bet she doesn't even think twice about that.