Terrorists don't ride bikes - not in Dundee at least

A rather odd heading perhaps. I've been aware for some time of the conflict in Dundee between the Port Authority (actually owned & operated as part of the Forth Port Authority) and pedestrians & cyclists wanting to cross the land that lies under the Port's control.
To cut a long story short (and going by what I can recall from an interminable series of articles in the Dundee Courier), in the post September 11th mood of "something must be done, anything, just as long as it is something" a path that ran through the Port Authority area was deemed a security risk to the port and any ships therein. The Port Authority subsequently announced that the path was to be closed to members of the public. However, this path ran between the outskirts of the city centre and Dundee's affluent neighbour of Broughty Ferry. As such it was popular as a safe means of either cycling or walking between the two locations. After a lot of debate, the compromise/fudge was reached that cyclists would be allowed while pedestrians would remain barred (presumably on the grounds that any would-be terrorist would be rendered "safe" for the duration of his/her time in the saddle).
To bring matters forward a bit to recent days, this report appeared in yesterday's (18/10/05) Courier. Then this morning on going through my bloglines, I saw this at Samizdata and it appears the story has also appeared in today's Times although there is no sign of it in the online editions of the Scotsman, Guardian or the Independent.
Referring back to the Samizdata blog entry, there is an well-populated commentary from various pundits which is one of the most appealing aspects of samizdata. llama's contributions (unfortunately llama doesn't appear to have a blog that I am aware of) hit the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned.

[Edited to correct the Times article hyperlink 20/10/05]