Speed bumps installed to slow Islington Cyclists

[dellzeqq]

....I despair!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090925/tuk-pavement-speed-bumps-slow-cyclists-6323e80.html

(photograph pre-bumps)
all of a piece, really. Anybody who's seen these people swarm across the footpaths that are traversed by the 'cycle route' that runs to the south of the Angel will know that Islington cyclists don't give a monkeys about pedestrians.

I stopped at a zebra crossing in Islington not so long ago, and the waiting pedestrian clapped.

 

[CotterPin]

I saw this report yesterday and thought of you, Dell!

 

[joolsybools]

Surely some on the spot fines would be far more effective?

 

[RRCC]

I'd get some air off those.

Now you'll need a full sus downhill bike, like drivers need Range Rover Sports.

 

[dellzeqq]

a small boy was run over by a cyclist on the pavement in Essex Road today. The police are stopping cyclists and questioning them.

 

[Danny]

Anybody who's seen these people swarm across the footpaths that are traversed by the 'cycle route' that runs to the south of the Angel will know that Islington cyclists don't give a monkeys about pedestrians.

I work near this very junction and can confirm everything dellzegg says about Islington cyclists*.

50% of them should be banned from the road for life and the remaining 50% sent on a road safety course.


* To be fair they could be cyclists travelling through Islington.

 

[CotterPin]

I work near this very junction and can confirm everything dellzegg says about Islington cyclists*.

50% of them should be banned from the road for life and the remaining 50% sent on a road safety course.


* To be fair they could be cyclists travelling through Islington.

I fink you'll find a lot of them are from the altogether more decadent Hackney on their way to the West End. We run a cyclist's breakfast there during Bike Week and most of the takers are from outside the borough.

Also, to be fair to the cyclists, the facility that currently exists there just is not designed for the numbers that use it both on foot and by bicycle so conflict is inevitable.

Having said that, it is currently being rebuilt which might improve things a bit.

 

[Twenty Inch]

SWMBO has reported being run off the road as she cycles south to north against the main flow of cyclists in Islington. We've installed a small bell, and I am teaching her how to sideways skid.