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I have just emailed my councillors asking for their help with this. Someone has put a chain across the entrance to the cycle path along dulwich village, just past the Picture Gallery as you head towards Dulwich College. This is the point where the cycle path moves from the road and turns right to then share the pavement. This morning myself and my 6 year old were left stranded in the middle of the road looking for the gap in the chains which is normally there, to find it was chained off. I was left making an emergency manoeuvre in the middle of two way traffic with a small child. Luckily we are ok.


Normally my child cycles on the pavement, but the pavement through dulwich village is so busy with pedestrians on a Saturday morning, that today was the first time we tried cycling on that road together.


We last cycled that route on Thursday evening (when my child used the pavement as there are fewer pedestrians at that time) and there was no chain across.


I only glanced at the chain but it does not appear to be the same as the other chains on that stretch. I have no idea why this would have been done.


I have asked the councillors to arrange for this to be removed urgently before someone is injured. It was a really shocking position to find myself and my child in.


For cyclists, if you continue past the bollard that protects you as you make the right turn, there is a drive a little way up on the right that provides access to the cycle path.

That section is definitely a shared cycle-pedestrian/wheeler space. The bit from Gail's down to the park entrance is, I believe, not a shared space and ought only to be for wheelchair users and pedestrians and child cyclists on their own, not with mummy or daddy, but - maybe confused by the shared space a bit further down - is often used by adult cyclists, rather selfishly (and definitely illegally).

I keep reading this as Dulwich Village psychopath, beware.


Oh come on ED - N, are you aware of most of the people who cycle down there? Nice family types, who may give you a good argument but I doubt would dare do anything as naughty as let tyres down. And what a load of over-reaction on the other thread in any case.


i never dreamt taht cycle-path hoggers would let tyres of SUVs down - it never entered my head. "Family types" suggests that as you have a kid or two and are in a wealthy area of London you are therefore allowed to transgress more than non-married, or - shudder - divorced or barren folk with less cash to splash!

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