To think that adults should cycle on the road

[LoopyLou1981]

It’s been a long time since I’ve been organised enough to get up (and get 2 kids up) and out early enough to walk to the station instead of getting the bus.
On a 2 mile walk, I’ve been ‘dinged’ at by 3 cyclists to get me to move over on the pavement so they could get passed.
Is this a new thing?! Our roads aren’t narrow or any more dangerous than any others. AIBU to think they should be on the road?!

I cycle and I'm scared of cycling on the road. I will stop for people if they are coming towards me.

I cycle and I'm scared of cycling on the road. I will stop for people if they are coming towards me

A friend of mine is a very nervous driver and is particularly scared driving in cities. Would it be OK for her to drive on the pavement as long as she stops when people are coming towards her?

If not, why should it be different for cyclists? Both are illegal

Mr Pan it is, in fact, illegal. And carries a maximum fine of £500.

Just because current guidance for Police officers is not to fine indiscriminately does not make it legal.

Here you go. BBC article. The £50 referenced is a fixed penalty. A court can fine up to £500.

Illegal. From www.bikehub.co.uk/featured-articles/cycling-and-the-law/

Cycling on footways (a path at the side of a carriageway) is prohibited by Section 72 of the Highway Act 1835, amended by Section 85(1) of the Local Government Act 1888. This is punishable by a fixed penalty notice of £30 under Section 51 and Schedule 3 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.

@IAmMumWho
this is like a driver saying "I'm scared to drive fast so I drive 30 miles/hour everywhere.
Your statement is beyond ridiculous. You have a bike, either use the designated path for cyclists, use the road or walk and cycle in a fitness centre.
I am scared of cycling because of a very bad accident. Tried cycling again but I was getting panic attacks on the road, in the traffic. So I stopped cycling, sold the bike and I am walking now, using the designated path for pedestrians. And I do believe that cyclists do not belong there, unless in exceptional circumstances. But those exceptional circumstances only pertain to a certain part of the road, not people. The argument that you're scared to be on the road so you cycle on the pavement but you are so totally nice and considerate to leave space for the pedestrians is just asinine.

Something like 3000 people are year are killed or seriously injured by motor traffic (directly I mean, not counting pollution and other similar illnesses and deaths).

2 or 3 people by bicycles.

That is the same number of people as this one solitary incident

So why have we completely normalised and accepted the first statistic as just how it is, and gone raging after the tiny subset of the fraction of a percentage of the other one?

I cycle on the pavement when im eith the kids. Is the only way to adequately supervise them at junctions (ages 7/4/baby on the back).
Is a short

I remember an occasion when I was on a pedestrian area in Bristol and some moron went hurtling by on her pushbike. She subjected myself and a bunch of other people to a load of expletives for 'being in her way'. She could have really hurt someone if she had gone into them. I was pregnant at the time

All these people who are completely intolerant of a cyclist on the pavement - when you are on the road in your car and there is a cyclist on the road in front of you do you give them all the exact amount of room you should and never get annoyed with them etc?

Frances are you agreeing with me or did you misunderstand my post?

?? It's the discretion of the PC who observes this riding, so it is lawful to ride on a pavement, in some circumstances, innit?? Which is wot I sed some way up.

And quite, the carnage generated by motor vehicles is monsterous compared with people on bikes, but yet we 'need' a new law re bike riding. Absurd.

YANBU. They bloody should.

Ahem..if you read all of the thread Death we will find that it isn't illegal And the proportionate risks from cyclists and drivers on pavement are so different that it begs the question of how bright you are. Or aren't

Wow. That's rude. Especially for someone who is wrong.

Not rude. Just reflective of your absurd comparison between the dangers of cars and bikes on pavements.

I cycle on the path when I am with DS(7) and I don't care what people think. He rings his bell as soon as we see people on the path so they have plenty of time to move and if they don't (and some pathetic idiots deliberately don't even though they'd have to move for someone with a pram or if a pedestrian want to overtake) we wait until they do.

With all the parked cars around here and moronic motorists (I drive too) who don't want to wait a second to overtake safely, I will continue to do so. I'm not putting myself or DS's life in danger just because some prick doesn't want to move over a few inches!

Might the pathetic idiots be deaf?