| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Diversions - speeding | |
| Posted by: | Clare Dawson | |
| Date/Time: | 10/12/09 15:05:00 |
| To be a total pedant, here are the facts:- QUOTE It is illegal to ride a bicycle on the footway of any public road. (Highway law calls a part of a highway set aside for pedestrians a 'footway': strictly a 'pavement' is an area covered by paving slabs). Sometimes a path forming part of a road may be a shared use path, in which case it may be used by both pedestrians and cyclists. These may be surfaced with paving slabs and so be 'pavements' but technically they are not 'footways' as they are shared-use paths. Sometimes a paved path at the edge of a road may be divided by a painted line with one side for pedestrians (that part is a 'footway') and the other for cyclists (a 'cycle path'). The law considers bicycles made for small children to be toys not bicycles and so children can ride these on footways, as there is no law against playing with toys on footways. UNQUOTE My thanks to "Jon" at Yahoo Answers.... |