To think we could close some roads for one hour a week?

[StScholastica]

To let people who want to get fit by cycling or families with younger children, cycle in safety. I think it would also build community cohesion.
Obviously there would have to be concessions for emergency vehicles?

Am I mad?

What do you mean by "You have drunk the kool aid?".

I don't think anyone would complain about carers, disabled people or the NHS/Emergency services getting through.
It would ge a polite request, that's all.

Never mind, I googled it.
That is very very dark and grim.

Ridiculous.

How would you propose people like myself get around to provide care to the elderly and disabled? Slightly more important than bloody cycling!
Cyclists are a bloody menace and the bane of the lives of those of us who spend a lot of time driving in the community to provide essential services.

I'd be happy with the once a month thing to let kids play. They play on the road an random days, putting ramps in the road. Its a really tight turn that you can't see down before it's too late.

I’m in the US. They used to do this once a week on my street for a market that attracted the whole city. Then one day a driver got confused despite the wooden blockades and people. It was mayhem. I don’t remember the exact numbers, but I think it was around 100 injured and a dozen killed.

it was determined that the only way to make it safe going forward was to install heavy bollards that could be placed at the ends of the streets during the temporary closures. It just wouldn’t be practical to do that in multiple places.

Yabu roads are for cars

Abuse is 100% acceptable; but surely you can see hia frustrated and desperate they may be if they need to use a road that they rely on and somebody has had that vital connection arbitrarily taken away from them?

Incidentally, is your charity anything to do with helping disabled, elderly or otherwise health-impaired people? If so, surely you must see the irony?

It's really easy to see it from your own pov as 'just one day in the year', but you never know how significant that one day may be to some people.

Even aside from life-saving and urgent healthcare needs, imagine if it were your wedding day and you were blocked from getting through in the car - but don't worry, as you'll be fully able to travel in all your finery to your very special (hopefully) once in a lifetime occasion on any day for the whole rest of the year!

Then the road isn't closed - so what's the point?

And I strongly disagree that nobody would complain, especially if people's disabilities or needs weren't instantly obvious from looking at them (and bearing im mind that even wheelchair users regularly get abused and harassed by the nasty non-thinking people you get everywhere, who see somebody sitting in a car seat whilst travelling and fail to engage their two brain cells).

Loads of hospital workers and other emergency key workers were screamed at by busybody neighbours during lockdown for going to work to save people's lives - I even heard of some who were physically prevented from getting into their car by idiotic thugs (who ironically probably saw themselves as upstanding pillars of the community).

Whilst there are plenty of sensible, considerate cyclists out there, there's quite a sizeable element who just assume that they aand their choices are 'obviously' better than other people's - so they naturally should be placed centre and foremost without a second thought.

It's similar with some vegans: whilst most make their own choices for their own lives and happily leave other people to make their own choices, you always get the ones who expect vegan to be the default in work events with catering, buffets, large gatherings etc. They too have all the 'reasons' why they assume their choice is obviously better and the right one for everybody, and should take automatic precedence over anybody else who might express a different choice or opinion.

Try suggesting that the pavements be closed off to pedestrians for 'just' one hour a day and see how that goes down!

They quite often are round here - live within 300yards of a 600 pupil primary school - was a 90 pupil infant school when I bought the house.

Pavements are for parking on, for riding bikes on, for abandoning council-trial-scheme scooters, for standing in groups on, blocking people who are trying to get past.

Pavements used to be "my" space. Not been for a while now.

That's equally unacceptable - but I presume the council hasn't carefully sanctioned it that way?