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ARTICLE: Pupil loses fight to cycle to school

  • 14-07-2009 3:52pm
    #1
    monument
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    A Portsmouth youngster has lost his year-long campaign to be allowed to cycle to school. Sam O'Shea, 11, has been told that the road outside St Paul's Catholic Primary School is not safe enough to use.

    Primary School says the road is not safe enough to use for cycling so bars the child from bring the bike into the school's grounds, but there's a list of things which goes against this read the full article. It's crazy stuff.


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  • #2
    snubbleste
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    Incredible.


  • #3
    ednwireland
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    more like they dont want to be responsible for kids bikes on the premises (like one of the comments says) convenient excuse really, sickening, you used to fight to get a space in the bike sheds at our high school

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  • #4
    Captain Havoc
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    This is just wrong. Greens are going on about how there's an 80% decrease in kids cycling to school in the last 20 years (not 100% sure of the stat) and then you have schools like this one not allowing kids to cycle to school. The school is thus adding to the traffic on Portsmouths roads which makes it more dangerous for the kids that walk to school. I don't know the school but if it's one of those that attracts SUV moms then it would be making it dangerous for everybody. I'll stop there and someone else can tell us about the environmental effects of having extra cars on the road.

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  • #5
    stuf
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    jerseyeire wrote: »
    This is just wrong. Greens are going on about how there's an 80% decrease in kids cycling to school in the last 20 years (not 100% sure of the stat) and then you have schools like this one not allowing kids to cycle to school. The school is thus adding to the traffic on Portsmouths roads which makes it more dangerous for the kids that walk to school. I don't know the school but if it's one of those that attracts SUV moms then it would be making it dangerous for everybody. I'll stop there and someone else can tell us about the environmental effects of having extra cars on the road.

    Well the school is in Paulsgrove which would have more in common with Finglas than Foxrock - that's not to say there wouldn't be Chelsea tractors galore.


  • #6
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,220 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Idiots.


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  • #7
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Storage is the real reason, why can't he just cycle and then lock the bike outside to piss them off....nothing against school rules about that


  • #8
    petethedrummer
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    There's room enough for one bike.

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  • #9
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,220 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    petethedrummer wrote: »
    There's room enough for one bike.

    http://tinyurl.com/ko26nu

    Four football pitches and not a single velodrome! The future of British cycling is in doubt.


  • #10
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    Lumen wrote: »
    Four football pitches and not a single velodrome! The future of British cycling is in doubt.
    I can't believe they have 4 football pitches, maybe they aren't part of the school. In our primary school we had half a pitch............. and we had to cut the grass with our teeth*.


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