On 08/04/2011 01:26, Jim Newman wrote:
On 07/04/2011 17:13, JNugent wrote:
On 07/04/2011 15:48, Simon Mason wrote:
On Apr 7, 3:28 pm, wrote:
I can understand some one that is not too with it taking a motorway
slip in
an absent minded moment, but why continue on?

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local...s/2011/04/07/c...

Scraping the barrel today, Cheerless?

2/3 of the story was about the chaos drivers were causing on the M62 -
the cyclist came and went without incident.

"Drivers also faced hold-ups on the motorway’s eastbound carriageway
late yesterday, after an accident involving a lorry and a car.
The vehicles blocked the nearside lane approaching the slip road at
Junction 26 (Chain Bar) but no-one was hurt.
Traffic queues built up for several miles before the vehicles were
removed. It was the second day in a row that a serious accident
brought M62 chaos. On Tuesday, four fire crews were called to deal
with a five-vehicle pile-up which left one driver badly hurt."

...and that meant that it was completely justified to ride a push bike
on a motorway, didn't it?

Did he cause any problems?

Apart from wasting police time (a problem he will certainly have caused), I
don't know. But it is likely that the utility of the road was reduced in the
vicinity, especially with traffic having to change lane to avoid him.

The only adequate practical punishment for such a blatant is on-the-spot
confiscation and immediate destruction of the bicycle, preferably in view of
the offender.

Then let him walk home.