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[sticky] Scott Arthur Latest 1338 gembo 4 days
Morningsider :: post # 202... Every penny of surplus income from a workplace parking levy and road user charge could be invested in road and footpath maintenance. On-street parking charges could be set at a full market rate. Bus lane enforcement cameras could be rolled out across the city...or you coul ...
Scottish Govmt announces £10m for pop up cycle/walking lanes 3659 ejstubbs 3 weeks
Morningsider :: post # 276... The amendment that passed is not quite the victory it might seem. Currently, a TTRO has a maximum duration of 18 months, unless it applies to a footpath, cycle track, byway or bridleway – in which case it can only remain in force for six months. The amendment that passed was to increase this six-month p ...
Electric scooters 182 ejstubbs 1 week
Morningsider :: post # 132... ooter is motorised. Section 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 makes it an offence to use a mechanically propelled vehicle away from a road - including on a footpath or bridleway, subject to a number of exemptions (e-bikes are allowed). ...
Transport Bill / Pavement Parking 72 Rosie 4 years
Morningsider :: post # 21... Odd then that the Tories had no concerns about legislating for a "blanket ban" on driving along a footway, footpath or cycle path (Section 129(5), Roads (Scotland) Act 1984). I would imagine that the Tories will try and amend the Bill to give local authorities the pow ...
cyclist charged with "by wanton or furious driving" 140 Murun Buchstansangur 6 years
Morningsider :: post # 77... use path to the south of Melville Drive this morning - a pedestrian intentionally blocks my way. Obviously, I stop. He demands to know why I am using a footpath when there are cycle paths around. I tell him it is a shared use path and I am entitled to use it. "BS" he bellows and shouts that I wasn't doing cycli ...
NEPN - road, footpath or cycle track? 26 Frenchy 7 years
Morningsider :: post # 10... Footway: Commonly known as “the pavement”, a footway is a way, which is associated with a carriageway, where right of passage is limited to foot. 4. Footpath: A way, which is not associated with a carriageway, where right of passage is limited to foot. 5. Cycle track: A way where passage is limited to bikes or ...
Pavement parking - another consultation.... (and implementation) 208 Arellcat 1 month
Morningsider :: post # 184... @wishicouldgofaster - The Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 prohibits the parking of motor vehicles on a pavement, which means a footpath or footway - which are defined as follows: Footway: Commonly known as “the pavement”, a footway is a way, which is associated with a carriageway, whe ...
Walk in to Pentlands - without walking along and on a road? 12 cb 7 years
Morningsider :: post # 4... From Oxgangs Road (served by LB buses 4 and 18), you could walk down Swanston Road. Join the footpath at the end of the pavement - past the footgolf place (really) and then on up past Swanston Village. Alternatively, from Hillend - walk up the path from ...
Cyclists the flout the law 11 Nelly 9 years
Morningsider :: post # 4... Generally, anyone cycling on a footway or footpath in Scotland is committing an offence under the provisions of Section 129(5) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984. The investigation (and normally also the e ...
2 New Dropped Kerbs on Craigs Road 119 boothym 1 year
Morningsider :: post # 105... neddie - an adopted footpath is one that has been added to the list of public roads maintained by each Scottish local authority (bearing in mind that the legal definition of a footpa ...
Morningsider :: post # 99... and "to which public access is, by or under any enactment other than this Act, prohibited, excluded or restricted". As I mentioned above - cycling on a footpath is prohibited by the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, which would count as an "enactment". By my reading - this means land reform access rights cannot be exer ...
Morningsider :: post # 103... that is already subject to restrictions imposed on it by any other Act (section 6(1)d), or by a Traffic Regulation Order. As the Act that covers footway/footpath cycling is still in force (Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, s129(5)), it is still illegal to cycle on a footpath or footway (unless it has been converted to du ...
Morningsider :: post # 105... neddie - an adopted footpath is one that has been added to the list of public roads maintained by each Scottish local authority (bearing in mind that the legal definition of a footpa ...
"Crackdown on cyclists who use pavement" 44 Morningsider 10 years
Morningsider :: post # 29... You can legally cycle across a footway or footpath - I'm pretty sure you could argue that crossing a pavement at an angle is covered by this, although I would think that anything more a few metres is like ...
Petition to ban pavement cycling Edinburgh 82 neddie 9 years
Morningsider :: post # 54... Technically, a "footpath" is a road where the right of passage is restricted to foot only and the road is not associated with a carriageway (road). Most footpaths do not meet th ...
TRAFFIC is to be banned from the north side of Princes Street 340 PS 10 years
Morningsider :: post # 261... You rang! Generally, anyone cycling on a footway or footpath in Scotland is committing an offence under the provisions of Section 129(5) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984. It is not an offence to cycle across a foot ...
Proven: Cyclists break more rules (by... Auto Express) 24 Nelly 11 years
Morningsider :: post # 12... f cycling across a footway. Section 129(5) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 states that "Subject to section 64 of this Act, a person who, in a footway, footpath or cycle track, as the case may be drives, rides, leads or propels a vehicle or horse, or any swine or cattle, commits an offence: Provided that the fore ...
#POP28 in the Evening News 80 LaidBack 12 years
Morningsider :: post # 16... I am sure that the cyclists in the footpath area were taking action necessary to avoid an accident, e.g. avoiding crashing into the back of a child cyclist who had braked suddenly. This is perfect ...
Angry 21 Roibeard 12 years
Morningsider :: post # 12... Perfectly legal to push a bike along or across a footway or footpath. (Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, Section 129(5)(b)). Dave - are you really arguing that anyone who chooses to use one of the very few sections of shared use ...
Citycycling Issue 6 24 Morningsider 12 years
Morningsider :: post # 24... an exception to the general prohibition on riding/driving on a pavement: "where and in so far as the vehicle or animal is being taken across the footway, footpath or cycle track" So it all depends on your definition of "taken". Personally, I would see that as allowing a bike to be ridden across a pavement rather t ...
"Fears over pavement cyclists" 36 chdot 12 years
Morningsider :: post # 19... mazing what you can squeeze into that 0.01% e.g. Section 129, Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (5)Subject to section 64 of this Act, a person who, in a footway, footpath or cycle track, as the case may be drives, rides, leads or propels a vehicle or horse, or any swine or cattle, commits an offence:. Provided that the for ...
Morningsider :: post # 19... mazing what you can squeeze into that 0.01% e.g. Section 129, Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (5)Subject to section 64 of this Act, a person who, in a footway, footpath or cycle track, as the case may be drives, rides, leads or propels a vehicle or horse, or any swine or cattle, commits an offence:. Provided that the for ...
Cycling on the pavement completely legal in Scotland? 11 wee folding bike 12 years
Morningsider :: post # 7... Cycling on a footway (pavement) or footpath is an offence under section 129(5) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984. Section 6(d) of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 exempts any land where access i ...
"Wheels in motion to allow cyclists to ride on pavement" 28 Min 12 years
Morningsider :: post # 22... l legally known as "roads" under the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984. It isn't illegal to cycle on "the pavement" - it is an offence to cycle on a foot-way or footpath. A pavement can of course be designated as a cycle track by a roads authority (i.e. local authority), meaning cycling is perfectly legal. Many cyclists ...
[sticky] Spotted 14475 SRD 20 hours
Morningsider :: post # 10770... le. Footway: Commonly known as “the pavement”, a footway is a way, which is associated with a carriageway, where right of passage is limited to foot. Footpath: A way, which is not associated with a carriageway, where right of passage is limited to foot. Cycle track: A way where passage is limited to bikes or bi ...