Walking across intersections - legal?

[musicman]

Whenever I sit waiting at a red light on Queen Street and see crossing pedestrians fill up the intersection I get this urge to hop off my bike and walk it across the intersection... does anyone know if this is legal? Does anyone actually do this or seen anyone do it?

[Mikkel]

If you turn off the engine it will most certainly be legal. Dunno if it is ok if you keep the engine running - but just push it along.

[xwhatsit]

Hahaha -- great minds think alike. Here's a thread we had a little while ago: http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=59768

[musicman]

Hahaha -- great minds think alike. Here's a thread we had a little while ago: http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=59768

Argh so I asked an already-asked question! :doh:

I did do a search first on "walking" and "intersection" but didn't find anything... :o

So did anyone actually try this? I think I'll wait until Summer when I'll have my mirror visor to try this... haha

[CookMySock]

sounds quite legal, but you are going to get some rather black looks I would say. I'm a cheeky bastard, but I don't know if I would be up for a stunt like that - not as a habit anyway. <_<

DB

[Nagash]

And just to add a whole new argument err.. I mean point of discussion..

Cyclists do it :D Go for it.

[Skyryder]

No law I know of that says you can not 'walk' a bike with the engine running.

I'd be inclined to turn it off for safety reasons. If it accidently clicks into the cog and hits a pedestrean you could be in the shit.

Skyryder

[Nagash]

Hell, I saw a biker pushing his bike through the pedestrain corssing after work..

I assume he ran out of petrol. I pulled over to ask if he needed assistance and he just ran down the pavement with his bike.. i'll be arsed if I was going to run after him.

[firefighter]

I'll join ya if you get a big group together to do it.....would be pretty funny i'd definately get the mrs to film it!

[swbarnett]

And just to add a whole new argument err.. I mean point of discussion..

Cyclists do it :D Go for it.
yes and no. From what I've observed on Queen St in Auckland they ride through (which I believe is illegal?).

[CookMySock]

[...] I pulled over to ask if he needed assistance and he just ran down the pavement with his bike.. i'll be arsed if I was going to run after him.lol sounds like he nicked it.. :blink:


DB

[CB ARGH]

'twas taking the bus a few months ago and came up to the intersection at the top of the hill from western springs (auck), some dude comes from the left on a scooter, and his side had a red light, so he gets off, and starts walking onto the footpath, once ge gets past the intersection he gets back on and you see a laugh and a puff of blue smoke as he powers (it has power? :dodge:) off around the corner.

Jackass.

I would find it illegal. Just play it safe and wait for three minutes.

[breakaway]

Doing this with a bigger bike would get pretty tiring.

[firefighter]

'twas taking the bus a few months ago and came up to the intersection at the top of the hill from western springs (auck), some dude comes from the left on a scooter, and his side had a red light, so he gets off, and starts walking onto the footpath, once ge gets past the intersection he gets back on and you see a laugh and a puff of blue smoke as he powers (it has power? :dodge:) off around the corner.

Jackass.

I would find it illegal. Just play it safe and wait for three minutes.

nothing like a sense of humour huh? let me know when youv'e finished wrapping the world up in cotton wool..........:bleh:

[musicman]

'twas taking the bus a few months ago and came up to the intersection at the top of the hill from western springs (auck), some dude comes from the left on a scooter, and his side had a red light, so he gets off, and starts walking onto the footpath, once ge gets past the intersection he gets back on and you see a laugh and a puff of blue smoke as he powers (it has power? :dodge:) off around the corner.

Jackass.

I would find it illegal. Just play it safe and wait for three minutes.

I almost did something similar on Saturday, was the last bike in a group sitting at the lights to turn left from Burns Ave to Esmonde Road, in the rain, the light was red for ages and green for just a few seconds, a couple at the back made it across on the amber light but I got left behind, was a little annoyed at being wet and stupidly long lights so I almost rode onto the footpath to bypass the red! But my common sense told me to stay put... damn common sense :bash:

[sunhuntin]

a local tosspot scooter rider was on telly last year bitching about lights not feeling his scooter on the pad. he was advised to get off and push the pedestrian cross button, and then walk across where the peds walk. i cant recall if that came from police or council.

i dont see anything illegal with it, so long as the bike it not running. there are a few reasons for walking a bike... run out of gas, flat battery, flat tyre etc etc.

[CB ARGH]

That would be a problem... not triggering the light. I have seen a case of this at an intersection where there was a long line of traffic (including me about 5 back in a cage), bike was in the front, and eventually went to the side to allot a car to trigger the pad thingie. We waited about two sets too. Pissed off. :doctor:

[alanzs]

sounds quite legal, but you are going to get some rather black looks I would say. I'm a cheeky bastard, but I don't know if I would be up for a stunt like that - not as a habit anyway. <_<

DB

I'm disappointed in you... :laugh:

[alanzs]

there are a few reasons for walking a bike... run out of gas, flat battery, flat tyre etc etc.

Don't forget wanting to push over pedestrians while walking in the crosswalk... :niceone:

[Dave-]

this one time on my way to work a quiet wee suburban street was blocked by a big truck delivering house parts, like the whole road was blocked as it backed down some narrow drive very slowly, so i just popped up a drive way, onto the footpath, crawled along that, then down another drive way and carried on my merrry way :)

on my mountain bike plenty of times when doing a left hand turn I've just hopped onto the footpath, rounded it and dropped back onto the road, when in the inner city i hop off and push it but if im in the suburbs i just stay on.

I'm yet to do it on my bike, however im quite lazy and prefer to just drop it into neutral have a stretch, a yawn and a scratch under the helmet and give the cagers around me funny looks.

[sefer]

Defiantly legal for a moped (even suggested in fact), can't see why it wouldn't be for a bike.

Probably not worth the effort in most places around here, unless you were stuck for some reason (like lights not changing).

[CookMySock]

[....] prefer to just drop it into neutral have a stretch, a yawn and a scratch under the helmet and give the cagers around me funny looks.lol, "why is that bikie looking at me like that???" Yeah I swing widely between riding up the footpath and just waiting - gazing into space. Often I don't know just what I will do next - kinda make it up as I go.. :rolleyes:


DB

[jrandom]

True story.

Yesterday, Stickchick and I had to go to the bank downtown. Traffic was shocking.

So, coincidentally enough, I had the marvellous idea of walking Betty the GSX1400 across intersections at the red lights with all the rest of the pedestrians. We got a few funny looks, but nobody seemed to object.

We pootled on down Queen Street, and should have turned up Wyndham Street, but I went on past without realising that that's where the BNZ was.

So we turned off onto the footpath and I walked Betty back along it in the crowd, waited at the crossing, crossed with everyone else, and then walked her up Wyndham Street to the BNZ, parking her on the footpath outside.

All very convenient and hassle-free. I highly recommend managing one's transport to downtown business appointments thusly.

Of course, I'm not entirely sure that everyone around us quite believed that the paddling of my feet against the pavement as I sat astride the GSX1400 with Jody on the back formed the sole motive force, or that 'walking a bike' involves slipping the clutch and treating passersby to throttle blips through the TBR exhaust.

But the way I figure it, for a brief time on her lunchbreak yesterday, Betty was a pedestrian.

:2thumbsup

[Stickchick]

So we turned off onto the footpath and I walked Betty back along it in the crowd, waited at the crossing, crossed with everyone else, and then walked her up Wyndham Street to the BNZ, parking her on the footpath outside......

Thank god for tinted visors is all I can say :no::o

[musicman]

True story.

Yesterday, Stickchick and I had to go to the bank downtown. Traffic was shocking.

So, coincidentally enough, I had the marvellous idea of walking Betty the GSX1400 across intersections at the red lights with all the rest of the pedestrians. We got a few funny looks, but nobody seemed to object.

We pootled on down Queen Street, and should have turned up Wyndham Street, but I went on past without realising that that's where the BNZ was.

So we turned off onto the footpath and I walked Betty back along it in the crowd, waited at the crossing, crossed with everyone else, and then walked her up Wyndham Street to the BNZ, parking her on the footpath outside.

All very convenient and hassle-free. I highly recommend managing one's transport to downtown business appointments thusly.

Of course, I'm not entirely sure that everyone around us quite believed that the paddling of my feet against the pavement as I sat astride the GSX1400 with Jody on the back formed the sole motive force, or that 'walking a bike' involves slipping the clutch and treating passersby to throttle blips through the TBR exhaust.

But the way I figure it, for a brief time on her lunchbreak yesterday, Betty was a pedestrian.

:2thumbsup

HAHAHA that's awesome! "Walking" your bike on the footpath of the busiest street(?) in New Zealand! My office is on Queen St, I would love to do something like that sometime (with a mirror visor, of course).

[Ixion]

What is this 'footpath' of which you speak? Do you mean the auxiliary motorcycle lane?

[xwhatsit]

What is this 'footpath' of which you speak? Do you mean the auxiliary motorcycle lane?
The man's right, you know. On certain roads (e.g. the grey area between Broadway and Parnell Rd) when one is stuck with lane 1A, sometimes the only way around parked cars is to use the auxiliary motorcycle lane. I've discovered the Super Cub is great at hopping curbs -- trailing link suspension FTW :2thumbsup I'd have no qualms doing a pedestrian-crossing-walk with her either. I figure the `ped' in `moped' is an inclusive identifier, not exclusive.

[CookMySock]

Thank god for tinted visors is all I can say :no::oHAHAHA, LOL!! DagNabbit BOYZ and their embarrassing antics ay !! :clap:

I would have NOT heard the end of that for a WEEK!! Not that my mrs would have been on MY bike - on her own more like it.. :whistle:

DB