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- From: dmarsh@cs.strath.ac.uk (David R Marsh CS91)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Bicycle riders
- Message-ID: <11062@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:30:46 GMT
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- In article <JC.92Nov20094833@mr-potter-t-crosser-i-dotter.fulcrum.co.uk> jc@fulcrum.co.uk (John Callingham) writes:
- >
- >It is too dangerous for cyclists to ride on roads without bus lanes.
-
- False.
-
- >So cyclists ride on the pavement and make the pavements dangerous for
- >pedestrians.
-
- Some of them do.
-
- Another example of the way that cars are becoming the
- >only form of transport for the vast majority.
- >
-
- True, but this is by Govt coercion rather than choice.
-
- >The number of cars on our roads is continously increasing. Anyone got
- >any ideas on what to do with them all?
- >
-
- I've been told that sticking boiled potatoes up car exhausts does not greatly
- enhance their performance. But seriously: lots of traffic calming, huge
- parking fees, car bans from city centres, removal of company car perks,
- massive investment in good quality public transport (especially rail and LRT),
- huge petrol taxes etc. (Go on, flame me!)
-
- {The above actually resembles Central Region's new transport plan, excepting
- the bit about potatoes :^)}
-
- The Urban Cyclist [TM] guide to city centre cycling:
- (as most city streets have several lanes)
-
- 1 This is *my* lane. That's why I'm cycling in the centre of it. I've left a
- lane on my right for you (gosh, I'm so generous).
- 2 If you (a car) enter my lane you do so at your own risk.
- 3 If you pass by me so closely that I can touch your car <thump> then I will
- do so. You're *too* close.
- 4 If you have a problem with that then I'll be happy to argue about it at the
- next traffic lights. Failing that, I'll take down your numberplate and report
- you to the police. (I've not tried this, but many rec.bicycles.* people
- confirm that this has the desired effect.)
-
- This is the technique I use, and it works! I get very little hassle, and
- every time I go out I see more and more people cycling...
-
- In fact, there are so many cyclists that almost every railing at the Uni has
- at least one bike locked to it... :-)
-
-
- Dave.--dmarsh@cs.strath.ac.uk or cad129@ccsun.strath.ac.uk {or sthg similar!}-
-
- If you did something which carried a high risk of your own death, a high risk
- of killing other people, which adversely affected the environment, which cost
- you a lot of money, and was highly taxed, you'd stop wouldn't you?
-
- Driving: it's time to kick the habit. "Training beats coaching" (C) ScotRail
-