[right2roam]

I appreciate a few obnoxious folk might appear from time to time, as they do in all public places, but I think it is good they published this, and hopefully it will encourage more folk to do the riverside walks and explore London beyond the usual tourist, consumer and work zones. On a separate note - if any Guardian devs are reading HN these days - what happened to your site? Drowning in JS incontinence, so much so that instead of responsive design, you now have non-responsive design. KISS is not just a band, but a way to think about design and software engineering!

[Jedd]

Agreed. However you can't legislate against inconsiderate behaviour, which is what leads some people to prefer other people are physically precluded from their vicinity. It's undeniably going to cause some contention.

And, yes, I enjoyed many interesting trips along both north and south sides of the river, also both towards and away from the city - it was undeniably frustrating to have to make often quite large detours 'inland' just to get past a couple of hundred metres of fenced-off foreshore. Cycling through areas strewn with shattered glass wasn't much fun, either.

Such a shame we can't all reach a 'let's not be arseholes' consensus.

[smeyer]

>you can't legislate against inconsiderate behavior

Sure you can. In my own experience I've had good luck calling the police with noise complaints, although I recognize the response is probably worse in many other places. I'm not claiming you can legislate against all inconsiderate behavior, but it's not a problem that is inapproachable with legislation.