On 15/02/2019 16:43, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
TMS320 wrote:
On 15/02/2019 14:46, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
There is school at the end of my street. My desk faces to the
window. Some days I notice this woman on her bicycle going down
the street, usually at about the same time, so she must work at
the school. Hi viz, helmet and actually riding on the road!!!!!!
Across the road there is a ginnel, with constricting barriers and
the legal signage prohibiting cycling. I watched her mount the
footpath, struggling round the barriers and cycle down the ginnel
- I once obstructed an ape on his bicycle coming towards me in
this ginnel, the ape dismounted. So, is the woman just plain
stupid, could not care less or does she not understand the
cycling prohibited sign? As she is a cyclist it is probably all
three.

More likely someone being sensible and pragmatic.

She could always dismount.

How does that make a difference?

How do you know it is a legal prohibition? Many are not.

Goggle is my friend.

Perhaps you can share the link? Though I can't imagine how it would
help. Is there a dusty scroll in a vault that tells us definitively?

When was the sign last maintained? Many have been left to
deteriorate for at least 30 years.

The sign is very easy to read. Even the local cycling club agreed
with me when I complained about the adult riders ignoring the sign.
They apologised and said that they would have words with their
members.

I asked whether it had been maintained, not whether it is easy to read.

Is there a matching one at the far end? When not maintained or the
path crosses a local authority boundary, often there isn't.

Yes there is.

Surprising.

Does anybody with authority ever come to enforce it? Perhaps you
should go to your local authority or the police and demand they
provide somebody.

Of course not. The police have better things to do than fine a bunch
of stupid cyclists for breaking the law. They have actually told me
this.

Yes, society is better off when they direct their valuable resources at
people that carry chisels around when they have no plan to do any carpentry.

In any case, what purpose does a prohibition serve?

Asked like a true ****** on a bicycle.

If you had an answer you would tell us. No point having a law if nobody
knows the purpose of it.