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Cyclist stopped for riding on cycle path (Silvio Diego YouTube still)Video: Policeman stops London pavement cyclist… but it's not the pavement it's a cycle path
A London cyclist has shared footage of himself being stopped by a policeman for riding on the pavement - although in fact, he was on a cycle path, as he politely pointed out to the embarrassed officer.
In the video, posted to YouTube by Silvio Diego, the officer gestures to the rider to stop, saying: "Hey - why are you on your bike on the pavement?"
The cyclist tells him: "This is a passage for a bicycle," with a nearby PCSO nodding his agreement that this is, indeed, the case.
The sheepish looking police officer says, "Sorry, I can't see the cycle path."
That's despite the short route, which enables riders coming across Waterloo Bridge or arriving from the Strand to head up Wellington Street towards Covent Garden, a route blocked to motor vehicles, being clearly marked as a cycle path on both the pavement and bollards.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Poor decision for Eurosport to repeatedly show the crash before knowing the outcome. Not cool.
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In a perfect world, we'd have a measure of how easily distracted someone is, as part of their driving test....
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How does Mr Lucy tell you he's a bit of an arsehole without telling you he's a bit of an arsehole?
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At least the van driver was nowhere near the stationary cyclist.
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The BMX racers are also no longer being supported. Kye Whyte said he's lost his GT sponsorship. It also looks like GT will no longer make BMX bikes.
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The people causing traffic jams complaining about the traffic jams
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Ditto
I do like this site but I feel there needs to be a bit more editorial judgement applied sometimes.
That strip is a fucking nightmare.
There is no notification to pedestrians that the lights are green with cyclists are approaching, and it's a very tourist dense area.
I live one side of it and my girlfriend on the other and every time I go through there, I have to shout to warn people.
It's so bad (and in the streets behind up towards the ROH) that I dodge a bit of Aldwych then head up Drury Lane
You're right, it's not a good piece of infrastructure, although it's a very useful link. Clearing some of the clutter and putting in a kerb-demarcated cycle route (i.e. like a road, only narrower) would be helpful.
The could easily change the texture of the pavement and raise it slightly to at least give a visual indication that its a shared path (with 'look left/right' painted), and they could go a bit further with installing some lights on the pedestrian side with some kind of tone/bleep to warn people.
On Saturdays, its a full on nightmare as you'll have people congregating for the matinee at the Lyceum and their attention is elsewhere/non-existent.
I only go that way as I hate going over Blackfriars Bridge after having a bus driver try to kill a friend and myself (and coming within millimetres of knocking me off).
As a bonus, they could also sort that drain out in the middle of the junction as its absolutely lethal!
Report it: www.fillthathole.org.uk
Done!
Thanks.
Good. I'm glad the copper did it. Didn't matter that he was wrong, if he thought the cyclist was on the pavement, he was right to challenge him about it. As it was, no harm done.
Your an absolute idiot, let's hope a copper arrests you for rape shall we, doesn't matter if you didn't do it, the copper thought you did, so he's in the right to accuse you.
FFS
Rude from a club of one.
Seriously? Are you equating rape to being stopped on a pavement by what seems to be a polite officer?
Seriously? Are you unable to see that s/he did not suggest that?
Polite? That's just a minimum. If someone whose job is to know the law and be aware of their surroundings is incompetent and inconveniences me then politeness is merely the last straw.
This is professional incompetence and pretty representative of the car-driving numpties that take ages to secure a couple of years convinction when a cyclist is killed by a car driver.
It's not professional incompetence. It isn't even close to meeting any standard of negligence. He made a minor error by being unaware of a specific fact, which he quickly acknowledged and apologised for. Reasonable human beings (yes, including police officers) do that all the time. The point is, he dealt with it properly, apologised, and everybody moved on. Which makes it very difficult to see why people are getting wound up by it...
Just wondering. Is it hard riding along with such a big chip on your shoulder?
Policeman makes a mistake, so what.
So, why doesn't the Policeman know how to recognise a cycle path? Is it the fault of the cycle path or the policeman?
Now, back to defending the plod no matter what.
So what
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