Why, 6 weeks after lockdown, with the park empty and a key route and destination for safe exercise the government has mandated, plus a return to work for all workers, encouraged to use bikes instead of cars where possible, is the Royal Parks allowed to continue a discriminatory cycling ban?

Why, where they allowed to target just cyclists in the first place? Cycling has always been a permitted activity, yet the parks still have people loitering around gates, having picnics, sunbathing.

All the other parks managed it by patrolling in the beginning and then letting people self regulate, like the VE day celebrating, discrimination fighting, cosmopolitan democracy that we are. Today, the biggest bottleneck, like before, is runners and walkers, but we do not ban them, as this would be wrong. Yet the Royal Parks chose to discriminate, were allowed to, and still are allowed to weeks later as the park is empty and a severe loss to people trying to get to work sustainably and efficiently and an outlet for families and individuals during these difficult times.

Today's cycling legacy and the future sustainability of commuting in London is built on Richmond Park as a key pillar, denied by a few.