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Old July 31st 17, 04:33 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
James Wilkinson Sword[_4_]
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Default Council that fined girl, 5, for running lemonade stand slaps bikeshop owners with penalty for offering a free pump

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:26:36 +0100, JNugent wrote:

On 31/07/2017 16:12, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
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.


https://www.facebook.com/towerhamlet...type=3&theater


Thank you for so eloquently making the council's point for them.

The scene is this:

https://ibb.co/jToys5

Carefully note the fact that both aspects of the shop (which is on a
corner) are adorned with items laid out on the footway (which I will
here call the pavement).

There are two pavements adjacent to the shop, one in either street
forming the corner. The one I have marked with a red line denoting its
width is already restricted by a lamp standard. The width available to
mothers pushing prams, etc, is therefore the space between that lamp and
the wall/window of the shop. That already-narrow passage is then further
reduced by the junk left on the pavement by the proprietors of the shop.
The effect is to reduce the availabe width to that marked by the blue
line, about 16".

The council might - just might - deign to issue a licence for the
display of goods on the pavement in the street where the pavement is
wider, but there is no way that TH Council will issue a licence for the
placing of items on the paavement in the side street, and no reason why
they should.

The shop's owners are, in common parlance, taking the ****. The £100
seems a lenient penalty in the circumstances.


Stop being such a pedantic moaning old ****wit. Oh by the way, try measuring it to the kerb, then fine the council for the streetlamp.

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