Get Bikes Off the Roads

together and take up the space of a car.Let them know your there.

number of times a bikes bumped into me while walking down a busy pavement; or almost run me over while using a crossing.

sure bikes should be treated with respect but they need to apply that to other road/pavement users.

How many cyclists have even read the highway code? Most drivers haven't since they sat their test :(

It is because of the poor provision of cycle lanes that cyclists end up on the pavement. And then there is the token effort of local councils who provide 'cycle lanes' simply by painting a white line on the pavement and expecting cyclists and pedestrians to share the pavement.

My main road into town - about a quarter of a mile- consists of a cycle lane that starts off on the pavement, then vears off into a bus lane, then stops which mean the cyclist has to get into the appropriate lane for about five meters (which can mean crossing up to three lanes of traffic), then back to the bus lane, back into the appropriate lane again, and the very last two meters is back to the pavement. The road is a steep decline so invariably the traffic is moving quickly, especially the cyclist. Can you imagine just how dangerous it then becomes to have a cyclist swerve off the pavement into the traffic, accross the traffic twice and back onto the pavement again - it is a journey that takes less than three minutes.

As a cyclist I don't want to share a pavement with a pedestrian and I don't want to risk my life by following the guidance in the Highway Code. We do need proper cycle lanes and surely it is in the best interests of all road and pavement users to be supporting this rather than just moaning about cyclists.

I keep to the Highway Code - within reason, when I can. There are times when I do take to the pavement and usually this is because my path is obstructed by tin-box driving idiots doing their damned hardest to trash the planet. Sitting in traffic, i.e. obstructing the highway with one of those 'car' contrivances (no passengers, motor running) should be made an offence. People do it, day in, day out without any consideration for road users that do not obstruct the highway (cyclists) and without any consideration for the environment. How long should they be put up with, particularly when they have the arrogance to go on about cyclists jumping lights, riding pavements and being a law unto themselves?
Motorists - the sub-species of the human race that they are - might not be extinct but they certainly will be soon. Luckily all the oil is running out and there are not going to be 'leccy cars, divine intervention excepted. Motoring is finito and all their little lights, pointless one-way systems and 'parking lots' will be gone too. Assuming the motorists don't end up destroying the world in their fight for their right to 'sit in traffic' only bicycles will be left. Or will it be 'recumbent trikes' by then?

Round here, our cycle lanes have been created by people who think that we have nothing better to do than weave on and off the pavement, and give way to motorised traffic at every side road we pass, making a five minute journey take at least three times as long. This new rule would be totally unenforceable. I'm all for well thought-out cycle lanes but I won't be forced onto totally useless ones.

More critical mass actions needed everywhere.

Bikes on London's roads are a meance. The new higway code needs to be adopted oer se. Bike tracks for the sole use of bikes need building in quantity and then it should be an offence for bikes to use roads wherever these tracks are available.

Biles are very dangerous on the road and in the event of an accident it is almost always the bike rider that gets hurt. The ONLY safe way to promote biking is to safely seperate them from the many drivers who do not understand biking.

I am not anti-biking, I am anti accident and banning bikes from the roads where there is a valid bike track would be a major step forward in road and rider safety.