How to " make Mansfield a more welcoming place" .......

[Markymark]

I think it's also fair to say that if cyclists cycling through are potentially being fined £1000 then why aren't drivers who speed being fined £10,000? It would be closer to be in proportion to the danger and likelihood of injury.

When one group is being grossly disproportionately fined then it is unfair. Particularly when that group gets next to zero justice when injured, assaulted, abused or killed from another.

 

[gbb]

I do wonder if part of the resentment toward cyclists is the abomination of roads in Mansfield that drivers have to deal with. Stop start stop start,traffic lights abound and there is no flow. Perhaps that's why cyclists opt for non roadway routes.
Wrong to think like that of course but it is a terrible place to drive through.
Just a thought. It's not logical...but then when were people logical ?

 

[400bhp]

Wrong to think like that of course but it is a terrible place

I agree.

 

[hopless500]

"Dogs must also put their dog on a lead when instructed to do so"

Now that I would be interested to see!

 

[jonny jeez]

I think it's also fair to say that if cyclists cycling through are potentially being fined £1000 then why aren't drivers who speed being fined £10,000? It would be closer to be in proportion to the danger and likelihood of injury.

When one group is being grossly disproportionately fined then it is unfair. Particularly when that group gets next to zero justice when injured, assaulted, abused or killed from another.

I agree


Its not a social issue so why the disproportionate fine.(just covering my back there!!)

The fine should be in line with the fine for riding on a pavement, its essentially the same thing.

But I also think a fine is in order and perfectly acceptable

 

[fimm]

According to http://www.cyclinguk.org/blog/duncandollimore/mansfield
"A Google street view offers a fascinating insight into the minds of those who would seek to criminalise cycling whilst promoting motorised traffic in Mansfield town centre. As street view shows, the signs on the left indicating that cars with a permit can travel down Leeming Street at any time, as well as other vehicles (including lorries) for loading before 10.00am and after 4.00pm. But remember, zero tolerance for cycling.

If you then take a Google journey down Leeming Street you pass a line of cars before reaching the market place, where you can turn left past yet more parked cars, and all the business and shops served by deliveries from commercial vehicles. This is not a small self-contained shopping centre area. It is Mansfield’s town centre, a public space with effectively an ASBO for everyone who cycles."

So it isn't a pedestrian zone, it is a place where you are allowed to drive. Banning cycling is absolutely crazy.

 

[ian turner]

Dogs must also put their dog on a lead when instructed to do so