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Road Traffic Act 1988


21Prohibition of driving or parking on cycle tracks.
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, any person who, without lawful authority, drives or parks a [F1mechanically propelled] vehicle wholly or partly on a cycle track is guilty of an offence.

Funny how they don't apply that in Tixall Rd.
 
Gramaisc

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PPPPPP said:
Road Traffic Act 1988


21Prohibition of driving or parking on cycle tracks.
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, any person who, without lawful authority, drives or parks a [F1mechanically propelled] vehicle wholly or partly on a cycle track is guilty of an offence.

Funny how they don't apply that in Tixall Rd.
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Seems to only apply to Formula 1 cars..?
 
Noah

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PPPPPP said:
Road Traffic Act 1988
21Prohibition of driving or parking on cycle tracks.
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, any person who, without lawful authority, drives or parks a [F1mechanically propelled] vehicle wholly or partly on a cycle track is guilty of an offence. Funny how they don't apply that in Tixall Rd.
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It would be interesting to have a legal opinion on vehicles stationary on cycle tracks which are broken down, picking up or setting down passengers or picking up or delivering goods as these may not be regarded as parked in some places or under certain circumstances.
 
Gramaisc

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Noah said:
It would be interesting to have a legal opinion on vehicles stationary on cycle tracks which are broken down, picking up or setting down passengers or picking up or delivering goods as these may not be regarded as parked in some places or under certain circumstances.
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The Northern Ireland government link says -

  • Is loading/unloading permitted? No
  • Are Blue Badge holders exempt? No
Exemptions to Enforcement
Vehicles are not permitted to park on mandatory cycle lanes with the following exemptions:

  1. Council/Government Department in Pursuance of Statutory Duties
  2. Emergency Services (Fire, Police, Ambulance, Customs)
  3. Road Maintenance
  4. Statutory Undertaking (NIE, Water, BT, etcetera.)



NIE is the electricity board.


The Tixall Road paths don't appear to fit the Northern Ireland criteria for Mandatory Paths - the part with continuous white lines are not at carriageway level, they are on the footpath - the parts at highway level are edged with dotted white lines, which suggest that they are non-mandatory - if the law is the same in this part of the "United" Kingdom..?

To be mandatory paths in Northern Ireland, they need to be both behind a continuous white line and at carriageway level. Maybe it's the same here - who knows?
 
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Jonah

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PPPPPP said:
Road Traffic Act 1988


21Prohibition of driving or parking on cycle tracks.
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, any person who, without lawful authority, drives or parks a [F1mechanically propelled] vehicle wholly or partly on a cycle track is guilty of an offence.

Funny how they don't apply that in Tixall Rd.
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So my source was wrong then. I shall have to tell him seeing as he thinks he knows all things about cycling.

Tixall Road is obviously 'special' :rolleyes:
 
United57

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Gramaisc said:
Although I rarely use Newport Road, I did go along it last week and am not aware of any cycle provision anywhere along its length.
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Yes but the numbers of cyclists that use the pavement made me think they had changed it!!!!!!
 
Maryland

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Beware of an oldish, squarish, low-slung exotic-looking convertible with the sort of number plate idiots pay for, encountered yesterday evening on the Newport Rd just outside town. It is driven, badly, by a twat in sunglasses with no discernible driving skills, no situational awareness, and who can't control his vehicle.

Appeared up my arse suddenly, when I was doing 60 up the post-Derrington incline, then overtook me and the car ahead of me right on the bend at the farm, very wide, and right in the face of an approaching cyclist - who must have thought it was the end - and an oncoming car. Didn't even have the wit to apply the power his carpet-sweeper-lookalike would like to boast and try to lessen the hideous danger he'd just created.

Took off up the road, swung round in the Bradley turnoff and came back into town again, making a show of laughing when he noticed I was staring at him. Had a passenger, who may or may not have been as stupid as the driver.

People like this should have their licences removed. End of. Can't drive, brains of a mollusc, dangerous little smartarse.

Still, must be frustrating to have nothing better to do than demonstrate your witlessness on a contry road outside Stafford.
 
Maryland

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As has been discreetly pointed out, that last one came close to saying something quite rude and unladylike.

I'd just like to make it clear that I would never, ever, ever use that sort of language.

Not unless suddenly confronted with a picture of either G. Osborne or F. Maude. Or that Ian Duncan Smith, the configuration of whose name is an uninteresting mystery. But some things you can't control, can you.
 
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PPPPPP said:
Road Traffic Act 1988


21Prohibition of driving or parking on cycle tracks.
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, any person who, without lawful authority, drives or parks a [F1mechanically propelled] vehicle wholly or partly on a cycle track is guilty of an offence.

Funny how they don't apply that in Tixall Rd.
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Report it to the council(?) and see what they say..... could be the start of something big.....
 
Gramaisc

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Zero tolerance - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-31805312 .

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I hope the "law-enforcement professional" involved will be ensuring that it is safe for her to cycle on the highway, I'm sure that he will.....
 
Jonah

Jonah

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Chuck her in jail, the ill-disciplined, young tyke!!!

Another case of a police officer who knows the law but doesn't know common sense.
 
John Marwood

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