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Subject: Re: Cycling wrong way up one way street Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2008 08:24:05 +0100

TimB wrote:

> Colin McKenzie wrote:
>> TimB wrote:

>> I expect you know it's illegal.

> Actually, it did have me second guessing myself. Of course, it's
> illegal to go the wrong way down a one way street, but does that mean
> the one-way restriction extends to the pavement?

Of course it does - for vehicles.

If it didn't, it would be legal to drive a lorry the wrong way along the
street - as long as it was on the footway.

>> It's not especially dangerous, if you
>> do it on the road. But to many cyclists it seems less illegal, or at
>> least safer, to use the pavement. It isn't, despite some drivers
>> intimidating illegal on-road contraflow cyclists.

>> But before condemning too much, consider
>> - the one-way was introduced without any consideration of its effects
>> on cyclists, and very possibly despite objections by local cyclists

And?

Do they have some sort of veto?