Thursday, June 01, 2006
CAUTION CYCLISTS AT DULWICH TOLLGATE
article from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southwarkcyclists/message/3494
Has anyone else had any problems with the toll gates on College Road in Dulwich?I went out for a long ride on Saturday with a friend from NorthLondon. We started out heading towards Crystal Palace up CollegeRoad. My friend had never been through the toll gates before, but assumed that as there was someone in the booth the gates were manual rather than automatic.
He followed a car through while the barrierswere up, and failed to entirely position himself in the narrow cyclelane, although he was close to it. The gate came down suddenly onto his forearms. The force of this entirely snapped off the gate, and led to quite nasty bruises and welts on my friends arms - but incredibly, he didn't fall off his bike. The toll operator didn'task if he was ok or offer first aid, but instead demanded to know hisaddress and told him he'd have to pay for the damages.
I don't know if this was just a freak occurence or something that has happened to others - the gates seem very badly designed for cycles. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what he should do if he get landed with a large bill from Dulwich Estates?Jonathan Gaventa
article from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southwarkcyclists/message/3494
Has anyone else had any problems with the toll gates on College Road in Dulwich?I went out for a long ride on Saturday with a friend from NorthLondon. We started out heading towards Crystal Palace up CollegeRoad. My friend had never been through the toll gates before, but assumed that as there was someone in the booth the gates were manual rather than automatic.
He followed a car through while the barrierswere up, and failed to entirely position himself in the narrow cyclelane, although he was close to it. The gate came down suddenly onto his forearms. The force of this entirely snapped off the gate, and led to quite nasty bruises and welts on my friends arms - but incredibly, he didn't fall off his bike. The toll operator didn'task if he was ok or offer first aid, but instead demanded to know hisaddress and told him he'd have to pay for the damages.
I don't know if this was just a freak occurence or something that has happened to others - the gates seem very badly designed for cycles. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what he should do if he get landed with a large bill from Dulwich Estates?Jonathan Gaventa
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