The Media War on Cycling

[matticus]

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[Ajax Bay]

Don't ride on pavements!
It will never be enough for some motorists. They will take all we give and then more, just like they take the pavements from walkers and use it as parking. No, better to stand our ground and keep all as safe as possible.

He started it, miss.
Edit: Sorry, @Moderators I lost track of the OP's threads and thought I was in @Time Waster 's "Does language matter when discussing issues affecting use of roads?" which fizzled out when you suggested discussing @PedallingNowhereSlowly 's infeasible 35mph claim and the implicit sustained power required was 'dragging the thread off topic".

 

[brommieinkorea]

Where is "here"? You are in UK right? Why "should" it be called a "footway". Lots of pavements are dual use (peds/cycles) so calling them footways would be plain wrong (and American). And footpath is a designation (across ground say): bridleway is one step up. Pavements are associated with roads: if no road, it's not a pavement, it's a footpath, or whatever.

You find some odd people.
"I was walking on the road." (where vehicles can roll; if you were walking to the shops in suburbia you wouldn't say "I was walking on the road."
"I was walking on the pavement and had to go into the road because a car had parked across it."
"The road had no pavement."
"The pavement was a shared one: clearly signed. This one was wide enough but some aren't."
"He drove the car up onto the pavement and nearly hit a pedestrian."
"He resorted to illegally riding on the pavement at one point when the traffic got too much."

Think you group @mjr unfairly there.
The challenge with the use of pavement is its imported use to describe a paved/asphalt/tarmac/concrete/other surface in the urban traffic environment which means legislators and other specialists need to use the other terms to avoid confusion.
But real people don't need to: a road is a road: a pavement is the raised bit for peds, alongside.

Nope, no one in America uses the term footway, nice try. But in the US the term pavement refers to the substrate commonly known as asphalt, as opposed to concrete, gravel or maybe dirt.

 

[raleighnut]

Nope, no one in America uses the term footway, nice try. But in the US the term pavement refers to the substrate commonly known as asphalt, as opposed to concrete, gravel or maybe dirt.

And the pedestrian bit is the 'Sidewalk'