Ideas to making cycling safer in London and towns and cities up and down the land....

[brokenflipflop]

Yes it does apply to pilots and gun owners, they can also legally drive on out roads for a year with a driving liceence from anywhere.

A driving liceence maybe, but what about a driving licence ?

 

[Gbola]

Advertisement of starving kid - yeah, that'll work, sure. Advert with Johnny Iceberg on his top of the range CF, lycra'd up in Assos - don't think it'll get the sympathy vote really.

I have always had the feeling that cycling have been promoted in this country as a form of recreation mainly rather than as a form of legitimate transportation with added benefit of being green and prolonging life. If the Joe public get to realise this, it will help in modifying their interaction with cyclists. For example it is uncommon for HGV drivers to knock off/push off farm tractors that are doing 10miles per hour on A roads. So why can they extend the same courtesy to cyclists. Education, education.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Yeah, but now we're friends you'll forgive me right ?

Nope. I'm only called to forgive my enemies. Sorry.

 

[brokenflipflop]

I have always had the feeling that cycling have been promoted in this country as a form of recreation mainly rather than as a form of legitimate transportation with added benefit of being green and prolonging life. If the Joe public get to realise this, it will help in modifying their interaction with cyclists. For example it is uncommon for HGV drivers to knock off/push off farm tractors that are doing 10miles per hour on A roads. So why can they extend the same courtesy to cyclists. Education, education.

I'll give you 3 guesses.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

A driving liceence maybe, but what about a driving licence ?

Spelling flames, have we got so low so fast?

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

I have always had the feeling that cycling have been promoted in this country as a form of recreation mainly rather than as a form of legitimate transportation with added benefit of being green and prolonging life. If the Joe public get to realise this, it will help in modifying their interaction with cyclists. For example it is uncommon for HGV drivers to knock off/push off farm tractors that are doing 10miles per hour on A roads. So why can they extend the same courtesy to cyclists. Education, education.

Cyclist don't damage HGV paintwork as much as tractors!

 

[Gbola]

Look some of the money for public awareness campaigns could be raised through cycling activities

 

[brokenflipflop]

Look some of the money for public awareness campaigns could be raised through cycling activities

Judging by your hair-brained ideas Gbola, you don't work for a local authority do you ?

 

[Gbola]

Cyclist don't damage HGV paintwork as much as tractors!

I do understand the vulnerability of cyclists. However, I would hate to think that the HGV drivers are deliberately going after cyclists rather than due to lack of understanding. One of the great underestimations of the cyclist is his/her speed. Motorists, pedestrians and even cyclists themselves are all culprits of this underestimation. Thus HGV speeding up to overtake and turning left, thinking they would have finished the manoeuvre before the cyclist reach the point. A combination of raising awareness/education and stiff penalty will go a long way

 

[Gbola]

Judging by your hair-brained ideas Gbola, you don't work for a local authority do you ?

I am not sure

 

[brokenflipflop]

Harsh. Surely you can do something for a simple soul?

The Guardian crew are in the house !

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Harsh. Surely you can do something for a simple soul?

I've called him friend. You have to be content with that.

 

[brokenflipflop]

Mum, the Guardian readership are ganging up on me again with their intellectual elitism and referring to me in the third person.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Mum, the Guardian readership are ganging up on me again with their intellectual elitism and referring to me in the third person.

Watch who you are calling a Guardian reader....

 

[brokenflipflop]

Give in to it sunshine.....you know you are