On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:54:00 +0100, JNugent wrote:

On 31/07/2017 15:34, Bod wrote:

Such pettiness!

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...-a3600461.html

Someone ought to remind Tower Hamlets Council that London's pavements
are for the exclusive use of cyclists, with other uses (eg, children
crossing the pavement to get from their front door/gate to a parent's
car) merely tolerated and as long as they don't interfere with the
rights and convenience of cyclists.

And "get a licence for the right to trade on part of the pavement"?

Get a LICENCE?

Pay actual MONEY?

The council's got to be 'avin' a larf, ennit?

This is cyclists they're dealing with.

The bicycle is irrelevant. Most towns have shops with a few goods outside to encourage custom. And the council are blatantly lying. You can see in the first photo in the article that it isn't a narrow pavement. We'd be better off without councils at all. Do you know what they do that's useful? Collect the bins. That's it.

--
The squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides!