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Illegal - but #NotNice?
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Posted 11 years ago #
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awwww!
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Is that a teeny wee hi-viz? Cute.
Posted 11 years ago # -
There's several sources around for small kid hiviz. sustrans does some, if you want to support them. also ikea. probably others.
Posted 11 years ago # -
It's a miracle no-one was killed.
Posted 11 years ago # -
its one of those awkward things
kids allowed on the pavement
so where does mum/dad go?Posted 11 years ago # -
That is so sweet!
Posted 11 years ago # -
Right that's it. Spot fine! There's a petition to the Council about this soirt of thing you know: 26 businesses have signed I'll have you know!
fleaBay purveys kiddie hi-viz waistcoats of much cheapness. They grow out of them quickly, and virtually indestructible fossil fuel type substance fabric.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Getting one for my 9 month old, she can wear it in her walker. She is deadly in that thing.
Posted 11 years ago # -
@custard That is my quandry when cycling my kids to school up Colinton Road on the stretch from Craiglockhart Avenue to Oxgangs Primary. If I was to cycle beside them on the road I'm just putting myself into danger as I'm going much slower than the surrounding traffic and the path on the University side of the road is basically deserted so I'm not causing any problems to anyone by cycling on the path.
When I think about it the path on that side of the road is as wide as the towpath and could quite easily be made mixed use to provide a safe route to school for kids travelling to Oxgangs/Firrhill.
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I have no quandry about it at all. If I'm out with the kids, we ride on the pavement. We're careful. No one minds. I've ridden past police officers, been passed by police cars and no one says a word. Who would? Who's going to come up to me and tell me to stop cycling at 7mph on the footpath, to get that 9 year old and that 5 year old off the footpath and do that cycling on the trunk road?
Posted 11 years ago # -
Looks very nice indeed!
More beeswings on children I say.
Posted 11 years ago # -
"I have no quandry about it at all. If I'm out with the kids, we ride on the pavement. We're careful. No one minds"
I've had an
argumentdiscussion with you about this before. But I'm not proud, I actually think now that I was wrong - I honestly have no problem with people cycling carefully with their kids on the pavement. Genuinely, honestly. Who on earth does it harm?Posted 11 years ago # -
"Who on earth does it harm?"
EEN/Scotsman commentators? They'll drown in their own froth!
Posted 11 years ago # -
Down with this sort of thing
Outraged of West End
Posted 11 years ago # -
Just before the narrowest bit of Colinton Road /
Posted 11 years ago # -
That pinchpoint above is bad. I had a car overtake me right on it, very nearly cutting me off. and of course it then turned left at next junction.
I've been doing a lot of this pavement #notnice cycling this week as 2 year old is obsessed with riding his balance bike to nursery.
I've been experimenting with walking, shuffling bike, and riding on the road. no complaints yet.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Can the police issue formal guidance about this ?
HWC rule 64 is makes no mention of age but NWC implies that it is ok for kids. But under what age ? What if the kid is in a trailer, seat, tag along or just accompanied ? What if you are pregnant ?
There are several bit of road I will not take my 2 year old on in her trailer and we use the footpath (slowly and carefully) but it would be nice to know the actual rules.
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A police car went past me today and didn't blink an eye.
Posted 11 years ago # -
"But under what age ?"
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Young people have to be 12 years old to be prosecuted in Scotland"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-23121725
Police generally take a 'sensible' view on cycling with kids.
Some while ago Porty police made it clear that parents wouldn't be prosecuted for cycling along the Prom to Towerbank.
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