[Talk-GB] Roller skates, was Dodgy bicycle tagging

[Jon Pennycook]

Non-electric scooters too, although they've progressed down from marketing
execs at tech firms in the 90s to children now. I suspect non-electric
scooters and rollerblades would be treated the same.

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, 12:31 Martin Wynne, <martin at 85a.uk> wrote:

> What is the UK legal and OSM situation with regard to roller skates?
>
> An article recently suggested sales of roller skates are booming.
>
> Is it legal to use roller skates on a public footpath? On a cycleway? On
> a bridleway?
>
> Physically of course it needs a hard surface, but that is a separate
> issue to the legal access.
>
> As far as I can find, the only wiki reference to roller skates is as a
> sport, such as a roller skating rink:
>
>   https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:sport%3Dskateboard
>
> Whereas it seems they are now being regarded as a means of transport:
>
>   https://youtu.be/ijpuMVgxDlo
>
> Is roller_skates=yes ok on a highway?
>
> Martin.
>
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