Green experts ban cycling to work

jamesAC
jamesAC Posts: 117
edited July 2007 in Commuting chat
It gets more and more bizarre!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6277086.stm

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  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    How can they ban you from cycling to work, surely it's up to each individual how they get to work and completely outside the remit of the employer?
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  • padders
    padders Posts: 77
    How can you possibly ban an individual's choice of transport to work, morons.
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  • Greenbank
    Greenbank Posts: 731
    el_presidente wrote:
    How can they ban you from cycling to work, surely it's up to each individual how they get to work and completely outside the remit of the employer?

    It is. It's just piss-poor journalism from the BBC.

    The company has banned its employees from using a bicycle to get between workplaces and jobs during their working day.

    They haven't been banned from commuting to/from work by bicycle. Just from using a bicycle during their working day.

    Still utter stupidity, but the BBC have misreported it.
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  • dazzawazza
    dazzawazza Posts: 462
    They should ban staff from using roads altogether and helicopter them to work.
    Makes about as much sense. :wink:
  • RobA
    RobA Posts: 151
    They say, cycle to places rather than riding because it helps the enviroment, then they come up with this!
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  • wjhall
    wjhall Posts: 151
    Seems that we have a consultancy company with a realistic view of what cycling in the UK is really like, unlike the Panglossian attitude of too many campaigners.

    All we should ask of them is that their instructions to employees are reflected in their consultancy output for customers.
  • BentMikey
    BentMikey Posts: 4,895
    wjhall wrote:
    Seems that we have a consultancy company with a realistic view of what cycling in the UK is really like, unlike the Panglossian attitude of too many campaigners.

    That's rather a load of bollocks I'm afraid.
  • Twenty Inch
    Twenty Inch Posts: 765
    I would say it's another example of the claim culture coming home to roost.

    Their company secretary or someone has probably realised that if someone has an accident on a bike while in working hours and going from job to job, the company might be liable for a claim of some sort. This is about reducing exposure to risk and liability.
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  • domtyler
    domtyler Posts: 2,648
    edited March 2011
    Twenty Inch wrote:
    I would say it's another example of the claim culture coming home to roost.

    Their company secretary or someone has probably realised that if someone has an accident on a bike while in working hours and going from job to job, the company might be liable for a claim of some sort. This is about reducing exposure to risk and liability.

    How about if they have a car accident?
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  • dazzawazza
    dazzawazza Posts: 462
    I saw a news article about this on TV days ago.
    The way it was reported, interviewing an accident victim and filming pavement riders, made cycling look very dangerous.
    I wouldn't be surprised if it put many non-cyclists off the idea of cycle commuting altogether.

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