[cam.misc] Re: Mill Road resurfacing
August West
Newsgroups: cam.misc
Subject: Re: Mill Road resurfacing
In article <ehk20-A14F14....@nntp-serv.cam.ac.uk>,
Espen H. Koht <eh...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>Contrast that with the utilities. While I have no objections to the
>relative calm on Silver St at the moment, I'm less than impressed with
>the pace of the gas pipe work going on at the moment. There is no one in
>sight when I pass through (with some difficulty[1]) just before 9 am and
>they have again gone by 4 pm, if not earlier. No work on the weekends,
>of course.
>
>[1] 75cm 'cycle lane' between the pavement and their fenced off 'staging
>area' just outside the Darwin College main entrance. Is that a record?
Ah, but officially you shouldn't be riding your bike anyway; you are supposed
to wheel it from the Trumpington St junction all the way to Queen's Road. I
asked, and this was the reply:
***
The road is closed by an order and as such it refers to a vehicle.
"A vehicle (Latin: vehiculum) is a mechanical means of conveyance, a
carriage or transport. Most often they are manufactured (e.g. bicycles,
cars, motorcycles, trains, ships, boats, and aircraft), although some
other means of transport which are not made by humans also may be called
vehicles; examples include icebergs and floating tree trunks."
In effect by definition the road is closed to cyclists but not
pedestrians as their access has to be maintained. Hence if a cyclist
dismounts and pushes their bicycle it is no longer a mechanical
conveyance and as such they are not affected by the closure order.
***
I replied saying I had made a note not to try to ride down Silver Street on an
iceberg.
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