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Old 10-09-12, 08:36 PM   #1
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Default Crossing a footpath to get to my garden

Right I had someone taking photos of my bikes last week when I was in Donington and thougth that maybe it was some council **** getting evedence of my bikes crossing the footpath to gain access to my front garden. Now I use my neighbours crop kerb to get over the said foot path. I push the bike to the kerb in the morning and evening.

Not sure where I stand tried to google it but most if for push irons!!!
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Old 10-09-12, 09:39 PM   #2
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as long as the engine is not running i think your entitled. or maybe its someone taking pics to pinch it.
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Old 11-09-12, 12:07 AM   #3
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Do you own the house?
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Old 11-09-12, 01:16 AM   #4
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Build a bridge, hth
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Old 11-09-12, 05:43 AM   #5
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I believe there is a limit to how far you can push/drive your bike on the pavement to reach a parking spot. I can't remember whether it's 15 or 25 meters, but it's a fair distance.

So if you think you have a neighbour who's looking to raise a complaint you might want to look out the precise details (as well as locking the bike securely).
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Old 11-09-12, 05:19 PM   #6
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Don't know if this is of any use. The relevant word is "footway".

As written it is pretty prohibitive, but that's the way these things usually are. It's referring to cars etc, not sure how a motorcycle would be viewed legally.

It'd have to be a pretty stroppy council who took action against pushing a motorcycle across, but I wouldn't put it past some of them, I mean they are awash with money and staff with nothing to do after all .
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Old 11-09-12, 05:27 PM   #7
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Worth nothing that legally a footway and a footpath are not the same thing, laymans guide is a footway would run along a roadway. A footpath generally would not and will often stand alone or be alongside a cycle path.

You're crossing a footway and it's illegal to obstruct it or take a motor vehicle on it unless crossing to enter a property and the footway has been adapted for it.

Driving/riding on a footpath however is a civil not criminal matter but still not permitted except in the same circumstances.


That said its not a law that's generally enforced everywhere.
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Old 11-09-12, 06:52 PM   #8
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what ever is legal or illegal,just down the road from me there lives a copper.and for about 4 years he parked his car on a busy A road,half on the footpath and half on the road,day and night,the foot path is not particularly wide and would have made the path very narrow,so it would seem one rule for us and one rule for them!
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Old 11-09-12, 06:57 PM   #9
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Round our way the pavements (I'll call them pavements not footways) are used for parking every night, sometimes with little room to squeeze past, though I always manage. I wonder what the ruling would be if I hurt myself on a mirror as I went through - or would it be deemed I was behaving recklessly to try.
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Old 11-09-12, 06:57 PM   #10
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what ever is legal or illegal,just down the road from me there lives a copper.and for about 4 years he parked his car on a busy A road,half on the footpath and half on the road,day and night,the foot path is not particularly wide and would have made the path very narrow,so it would seem one rule for us and one rule for them!

Why? does the local constabulary say it's ok for him to do it? or does he simply do it because he can. I would assume the latter.
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