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Councillor Roger Elkins gets cycle lane ripped out before it was completed.
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:33 am
by Mr Gus
What a horses @rse..
Councillor who had never even visited the site to view hugely popular addition in use, gets it removed 2 months after installation
https://road.cc/content/news/council-ad ... ane-289847
Reading of the piece's comments are recommended (imho)
Re: Councillor Roger Elkins gets cycle lane ripped out before it was completed.
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:26 am
by AE-NMidlands
also reported here:
https://www.cyclinguk.org/press-release ... cycle-lane
Pity the a***hole won't be made to pay personally, both the legal costs and the cost of reinstating it.
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Re: Councillor Roger Elkins gets cycle lane ripped out before it was completed.
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:39 am
by Mr Gus
Yup, council doubtless happy with the infinitely "cheaper option" of a small fine & backslapping likely with chat along the lines of "phew, we dodged that expensive bullet chaps, ..suckers"
Re: Councillor Roger Elkins gets cycle lane ripped out before it was completed.
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2022 6:29 pm
by AE-NMidlands
New Highway Code...
Supposedly puts more vulnerable travellers in a better place, but still has mixed messages
http://tps//www.cyclinguk.org/blog/why- ... ghway-code
"Rule 19
Zebra Crossing. Give traffic plenty of time to see you and to stop before you start to cross. Vehicles will need more time when the road is slippery.
Wait until traffic has stopped from both directions or the road is clear before crossing.
Remember that traffic does not have to stop until someone has moved onto the crossing. Drivers and riders should give way to pedestrians waiting to cross and MUST give way to pedestrians on a zebra crossing"
so you have to step out into the road to have priority, and traffic does not have to give way until you are actually in the road!