Bournemouth councillor fantasises about attacking pavement cyclists

To be honest if I see someone cycling towards me on the pavement I'll slyly try and obstruct them. Pavement cyclists are just as bad as RLJs.

"...to catch those who are two [sic] lazy to cycle around the one way system, but cycle on the pavement instead."

Ah well there's your problem: the one-way system.

No wonder the councillor chose to orchestrate his pointless enforcement exercise there. Big one-way systems in town centres predictably result in people cycling on the footway.

One-way systems don't just make you cycle further than you need to, to places you don't want to go. They also expose you to greater hazards than ordinary two-way streets, what with the extra junctions, multi-lane sections and higher-speed traffic.

Get rid of the one-way system, which exists solely for the convenience of motor traffic, and most people will ride along their high street on the carriageway, as they did before the one-way system was put in.

Motor traffic already has a nearby bypass, in the form of the delightful Wessex Way.

Great, the next time I see  a car parking illegally on the pavement, I will consider:

- censored

- censored

- wait till the driver returns and censored

He is and always was "Tim, nice but dim" from Harry Enfield and chums. 

The Donald Trump of Bournemouth. This is not intended as a compliment.

Aye, it makes me worried about how I cycle the kids to school in the morning. Whilst I have one on the front and one on a tag-along, I go on the pavement (moving to the grass when pedestrians come past). If I was asked to dismount instead, there is no benefit compared to walking. When the kids are off, of course I come back on the road.

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Although Rose said that he would post figures from these exercises ...

Some seem to have appeared on his website:

"The police reported back that during those 4 sessions, they issued 4 penalty tickets to cyclists riding in the dark without lights. All 4 people who received those tickets presented themselves to the police station within a week, and showed the duty officer a receipt for lights they had purchased. Those penalty tickets were then torn up, as the purpose of the exercise was to improve road safety, not to fine people."

Seems they didn't find anyone cycling on the pavement!

Nick Rose is, and always has been, a class A tw@t.

He used to turn up to the Manor night club in the late nineties dressed in day-glo wearing white gloves and yellow smiley medallion.

He was bang on it but about ten years too late.

"I'd love to throw a brick through the windscreen of the car that passed too close to me whilst hooting". I mean that as a joke of course. Round of applause... Would he think that's a responsibile comment to make even as a joke?! 

Why is he carrying a broom around with him?

I don't really understand how someone who holds public office can just publicly express prejucide against a group of people, even if they are only being defined by their mode of transport and not face any official reprimand.

His comments might have been in the form of a joke but the words he chose show exactly his prejudices. I'm assuming in the interests of balance and impartiality he has also organised "action afternoons" against motorists and pedestrians who may be behaving irresponsibly.

Can't get that worked up about this - I've had similar thoughts, at least with the aggressive pavement-racers and zebra-crossing ignorers.

Of course that's matched by day-dreams about driving tanks over cars obstructing the pavement (which is the main problem with pavement cycling - there's no room to cycle there anyway, due to all the parked cars).

round our way, the police cycle on the pavements ...