chocwege wrote:MarkG wrote:Because unfortunately, and sadly, those who refuse to exercise common sense and due respect to fellow PSP users at present are the type who are unlikely to pay attention to any signs or the like.
Long story short, you can put up all the signs you want, but unless there's a way to enforce it, well the status quo will be maintained.
I look at the people who this very sign is aimed at, and I'd bet my left nut on it that they couldn't give a s**t about a sign.
While same will claim not to know the law, and some quite honestly choose to ignore it, most of it comes down to discretion which these people seem to lack.
Not so sure about this - my observation of the PSP between Mount Henry and the Narrows on a Saturday morning is that people do not know the requirement for single file. But the walkers who insist of being 3 abreast (and often across the centre line) DO need a rather large injection of common sense. So until the path is split between cyclists and walkers it will remain a risky proposition - sign or no sign.
So I guess its Canning Highway and Labouchere Road for me from now on.
Whether or not people know it's the rule or the law or the norm or whatever, is hardly the point - it's about using common sense.
That stretch of path in question, especially on the weekend mornings, and specially in the summer months is always jam packed with pedestrians, runners, joggers, cyclists , dog walkers and more.
Are you honestly telling me that you need someone to hold your hand and tell you 'probably not ideal to ride two a breast here'
We are becoming so used to having every aspect of our lives dictated to and scrutinized that we've apparently lost the ability to use our own initiative it seems.