Banned?!

[slparry]

http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-new ... 23414.html


it all sounds a little scary to me for the future if something like this got taken up by other councils

[Herb]

Quite shocking that.

Not being a legal expert, I wonder how enforceable that is should people just ignore it?

[slparry]

Quite shocking that.

Not being a legal expert, I wonder how enforceable that is should people just ignore it?

I'm voting on my fave art.14 of the HRA

[Grip Fast]

I had heard about this through MAG. It seems they want to impose a motorcycle exclusion zone around the Ace Cafe because of complaints from residents. And I think the police are supporting this too.

I have some sympathy with the residents, but it is the Ace Cafe FFS. That's it's whole raison d'etre, is it not?

MAG will be fighting this one as well.

[colm cummins]

Road tax paid, cannot see how bikes can be banned from public roads.

[Blackal]

From Wiki, with respect to parking charges by Westminster Council - for bikes:

On 16 April 2010, local councillor Daniel Hamilton (for the Englefield Green East ward of the borough of Runnymede), having had his journey to work delayed by half an hour by a No To Bike Parking Tax rush-hour "go slow", called the demonstrators "tossers" on his Twitter account. In response, he received 200 electronic mail messages, numerous text messages and telephone calls, including 15 death threats.[7] In June 2010, Boris Johnson was caught up in the protests and was heard to make what appeared to be veiled threats.[8] In March 2009, Westminster councillors responded to what they perceived to be a "hate campaign" organized by protesters, where councillors' names, addresses, and telephone numbers had been posted on the Internet, alongside threatening statements that people who supported the parking charge "must accept the consequences of their actions" and statements calling for "total war" against staff at the Council.[9] Throughout, the Council maintained its position that the parking charges were necessary in order to meet the increased demand for motorcycle parking and would not be abolished.[4] The campaigners maintained their opposition to the scheme, describing the councillors as "arrogant"[7] and dismissing the charges that there was a "hate campaign" as an attempt to distract from the issue of the charge itself.[9] The Council held that it was right that motorcyclists contributed towards road maintenance through the payment of a parking charge, and protesters countered that many motorcyclists could not afford the charge imposed.[



Al

[KenG]

car tax paid, can't drive in the bus lane.
***
of course they can do it.

just taxed the bike the other day, cheap enough £78 which at £6.50 per month is less than a packet of fags, and less than a gallon of fuel.

glad i'm in the north of ireland which is british,
as in Eire the tax is 3 or 4 times the price.

[nab 301]

just taxed the bike the other day, cheap enough £78 which at £6.50 per month is less than a packet of fags, and less than a gallon of fuel.

glad i'm in the north of ireland which is british,
as in Eire the tax is 3 or 4 times the price.

Bike tax is similar ?


http://www.magireland.org/2012/campaign ... tax-rates/



Although car tax is another issue..

[slparry]

of course they could be hinting to us that bikes lead to A&E

[KenG]

just taxed the bike the other day, cheap enough £78 which at £6.50 per month is less than a packet of fags, and less than a gallon of fuel.

glad i'm in the north of ireland which is british,
as in Eire the tax is 3 or 4 times the price.

Bike tax is similar ?


http://www.magireland.org/2012/campaign ... tax-rates/



Although car tax is another issue..

fair doooo's i thought it was across the board

[bikesnbones]

I had heard about this through MAG. It seems they want to impose a motorcycle exclusion zone around the Ace Cafe because of complaints from residents. And I think the police are supporting this too.

It boils my piss.
Yes there is a problem with anti social bikers that should be addressed, but are we the only problem.
As usual, we are an easy target, and behaviour with car drivers at the ace, is conveniently overlooked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9AbLeybEdE

[Topcat]

Have the Paramedic bikes or the police bikes been banned?

Or, more important to most Londoners, Dominos?

[McBoxer]

Or, more important to most Londoners, Dominos?

Road traffic laws don't apply to pizza delivery bikes. Fact.

[Bender]

"Westminster councillors responded to what they perceived to be a "hate campaign" organized by protesters, where councillors' names, addresses, and telephone numbers had been posted on the Internet..."

I think you might find that it is the policy of many, if not most councils to post the addresses and contact numbers of elected members on their websites...

[Topcat]

[/quote]
Road traffic laws don't apply to pizza delivery bikes. Fact.[/quote]

Very true