"Peter Scandrett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:I went for a ride around Wigan today[1]; upon getting back and trying to
get back to the car park I walked my bike through the new shopping mall
they have there. I was approached by a member of the security/centre
personnel who politely informed me that there was a 'no cycles' policy in
the centre. I replied that I was aware that riding bikes was banned (I
wasn't actually but it's logical) but he told me that this also extended
to pushing bikes, too. I asked him what the nearest exit was, therefore,
and how to get to the car park not through the centre, which I think
flummoxed him slightly, but we worked out a way back.To reiterate, he was polite about it (possibly because I was too) but I
did wonder about the logic of banning bikes completely in the place. On
the way out I spotted on the doors "No cycles, skateboards, <something
else> or heelys" under the "No dogs (except guide dogs)" bit but even so I
think I'd still have interpreted it as "No bikes to be ridden" rather than
"No bikes to be walked". It seems a bit daft to me.
Back home the shopping centre had something like that on the doors. We
asked some security guy if we could walk our bikes through to get to the car
park and were told no.
Where I am now the shopping centre has a no cycling policy in the car park
which means there's no way to ride anywhere close to all those nice shiny
sheffield stands they've put in!
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