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The street is a road. So if bikes wish to use it as a road they have to stick to the rules of the road. Which is one way and no access between 11.30am till 5.30 or what ever it is. Just because your on a push bike doesn't mean you can go down a one way street the wrong way.

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^ Like I said, plenty of folk on the street had plenty to say, and do about stopping anybody who cycled on the street in the 70's, regardless of age or the direction they were headed. Anybody who tried generally got too much hassle for it to be worth the bother.

 

Maybe that's what the street needs and is missing, folk who are using it, and are being inconvenienced, grow a pair and to do what folk used to do - simply face up to the folk doing it, block them off and give them an earful, instead of waiting for that "somebody else" to sort it for them.

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The street is a road. So if bikes wish to use it as a road they have to stick to the rules of the road. Which is one way and no access between 11.30am till 5.30 or what ever it is. Just because your on a push bike doesn't mean you can go down a one way street the wrong way.

 

Would imagine that Commercial Street, between 11.30 and 5.30, is treated as a relatively normal road with no more than bans for normal drivers. That doesn't affect blue badge drivers or cyclists.

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George is correct. The sign at the cross means no MOTOR vehicles.

 

As for the young kids on their scoot-along bikes, going the wrong way, criminals the lot of them I say. Lock them up, throw away the key! The Police exercise common sense on occasion and turn a blind eye, but adults should be going along Commercial Road and then riding back down the street, or alternatively pushing their bikes down the street if they are going against the flow of the traffic. Some old biddy coming out of a shop won't be expecting the cyclist to be cycling against the flow, so may not look in that direction.

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Apologies if it's been said already (a.k.a. not trawling back through 25 pages since the topic was started) but............ perhaps a lot of the problems would be solved if the SIC reinstated a traffic warden   :shock:

 

Ideally one not affiliated to any community or political group and therefore hopefully above any influence by anybody who actually believe themselves to be more important than anybody else. (newsflash to those people: you are not. Your rear exhaust vent generally points downwards just as mine and the rest of the population's does).

 

Didn't know the last warden personally but he seemed an affable chap whenever I passed by. From mutual friends I understand he was subjected all sorts of abuse while doing his job; shame on those people. 

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......... perhaps a lot of the problems would be solved if the SIC reinstated a traffic warden 

 

The SIC has no power to reinstate the traffic warden service - it was operated by the police but withdrawn nationally by Police Scotland several years ago.

 

What you see now down south are Parking Enforcement Officers depolyed under Decriminalised Parking Enforcement schemes. These schemes currently require a ‘positive business case’ - charges for parking to you and me.

 

Also... the signs on Commercial Street (plain white circle with red border) means ‘No vehicles except bicycles being pushed’. Bicycles are subject to Traffic Regulations the same as cars, unless specifically exempted - which has to be signed as such in order to apply. This includes ‘one way’ restrictions - unless pushed.

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Also... the signs on Commercial Street (plain white circle with red border) means ‘No vehicles except bicycles being pushed’. Bicycles are subject to Traffic Regulations the same as cars, unless specifically exempted - which has to be signed as such in order to apply. This includes ‘one way’ restrictions - unless pushed.

 

Think that you're quite right there, 60north. I had already used a sign with a car and a motorbike on it, which was wrong :unsure:

 

Don't worry, BigMouth, we'll get it right eventually :rolleyes:

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Bit of a gamble imho.

 

Staffing up for a Sunday will be a little on the expensive side if, that is, you can persuade your staff to come in.

 

Eateries and bars might do OK out of it but, the rest would be taking a bit of a risk.

 

Biggest problem is that the tour operators sell bus tours before the boats arrive so, there are not so many wandering around and, those that do don't seem to be "big spenders".

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I see there is a bit of mixed opinions on if shops in Lerwick should open on a Sunday or not, what's your thoughts.

 

IMHO it would be beneficial to the whole of Shetland if Lerwicks shops, and all the shops across the islands, were to open seven days a week. It would be great for the visitors that sail in at the end of the week, only to find Shetland has closed just in time for them arriving. Would also be good for all the people living here that work six days a week. Of course, there would need to be a bus sevice available acroos the islands on a Sunday. It would be good for both islanders and visitors. At the moment, however, there isn't. There are no bridges or tunnels either, possibly because of the skippers and crews for the ferries.

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All these folk and town organizations are obsessed with cruse ships. These folk rarely buy anything unless on a rare occasion. Certainly not enough buyers to cover Sunday opening costs, especially if the owners have to employ staff or have to come in from the country.

 

They are trying to make Lerwick like a town on the south english coast, but it's not, and never will be.

 

Shetland has ALWAYS had it's own way of working and doing things, that's a large part of what tourists admire about Shetland.

 

It's just a shame that Lerwick has already had the heart and sole torn out of it over the past 40 years.

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If a few seasonal touries wandering around on a whim making impulse purchases is the only straw the street has to grab at to save it, its in a worse state than I thought.

 

By all means its worth a try if any business owner is willing to write off the cost if it comes to that, but by all accounts few could afford to any more.

 

Have businesses who used to open on Sundays stopped doing so? Back in the day Don Leslie's, Conochie's, the chippies, a chemist and pubs all opened on a Sunday, albeit to reduced hours, and seemed to mostly do okishly. Who else would it be worth their trouble to open - for locals any business opening for a few hours *might* make it worth their bother, but for touries alone unless someplace selling souvenir tat nick nacks, I can't see it worth the bother for many others. Tourists off a boat are hardly likely to buy a haddock or use Specsavers - These are folk who are well fed onboard, are sold every over-priced tat imaginable while trapped on board, are visiting multiple ports in various countries and have limited cabin space for the duration. What you can persuade them to have as a drink or a snack on the spot and something that can pop in their pocket or handbag is really all you can realistically expect to unload on them in any one location.

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