Cycling On The Moor Pedestrian Areas

[Bargepole23 337]

41 minutes ago, WhyBother?! said:

Cycling etc is banned on the Moor, has been for years. People cycling on the Moor are knowingly breaking the law & are the same sort of cyclists who run red lights & cycle at high speeds on normal (narrow) pavements &;through underpasses, then jump kerbs to weave through traffic. And you know who's to blame when they have accidents? Motorists & pedestrians, never the cyclists!

Same sort of cyclists? Human ones?

Still, those cyclists aren't slaughtering thousands of people every year with their cars, through impacts and pollution. A price we seem happy to keep paying.

[Becky B 31]

17 hours ago, Bargepole23 said:

Same sort of cyclists? Human ones?

Still, those cyclists aren't slaughtering thousands of people every year with their cars, through impacts and pollution. A price we seem happy to keep paying.

The persistent view that cyclists are a different species is quite disturbing...

[spilldig 189]

20 hours ago, Bargepole23 said:

Same sort of cyclists? Human ones?

Still, those cyclists aren't slaughtering thousands of people every year with their cars, through impacts and pollution. A price we seem happy to keep paying.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

[Bargepole23 337]

9 hours ago, spilldig said:

Two wrongs don't make a right.

True. However, one is a vanishingly trivial wrong compared to the other, which we spend billions to enable, and often don't acknowledge as a problem. The other, we see demonised in the press.

[Pettytom 1]

12 hours ago, Becky B said:

The persistent view that cyclists are a different species is quite disturbing...

There are a fair few cyclists who behave as though they are. That’s also quite disturbing 

[WalkleyIan 10]

On 11/08/2019 at 10:21, Becky B said:

The persistent view that cyclists are a different species is quite disturbing...

Living streets Sheffield (formerly the pedestrians' association) works closely with cyclesheffield. 

 

Vulnerable road users, be they cyclists or pedestrians are often the same person and have the same needs to encourage safe active travel.

 

The national living streets organisation also works with cycling groups. Pedestrians and cyclists share many common objectives and both forms of transport are marginalised at the expense of motor vehicles.

 

That's why both groups support continuous segregated cycling and walking routes which take priority over motor traffic. Eg where left-turning traffic crosses the foot way/cycle-way

 

Both groups are opposed to simply painting white lines on pavements a this helps neither group.  Both support the concept of shared space if its well designed and gives sufficient space to all users 

 

Both groups strongly support the 20 mph urban speed limit

 

Cycle Sheffield support and promote Living streets policy on ending dangerous pavement parking. 

 

Both groups support the removal of the discriminatory anti motorbike barriers that blight many of the traffic-free cycling and walking routes. They don't stop motorbikes but do badly impact on the disabled users who might be on mobility scooters or hand tricycles 

 

Unfortunately none of these things will satisfy the press in its need for click-bait stories