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Walking & cycling action plan published
http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/group...vel_029204.pdf
-- Guy -- May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk |
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Walking & cycling action plan published
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:46:16 +0100, Just zis Guy, you know?
wrote: http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/group...vel_029204.pdf Every single cyclist pictured is wearing a helemt, bar one. Mind you all the pedestrians are wearing shoes. Colin |
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Walking & cycling action plan published
Is anyone else as disturbed as I am to see this new trend towards
thinking about cyclingandwalking as one word. It's the same as the trend to use the words "vehicle" or "traffic" to mean "not bicycles". The announcement talks about the record of the government's cycle strategy in increasing cycling as "mixed". That's bull****. It hasn't been mixed, it's been a total failure, except in central London. In Central London the increase in cycling is attributed to the congestion charge. That could be partly true, but a few other factors like the Central Line and Northern Line tube being disrupted or totally out of service for months might be a factor, as might he fact that we have had the best summer since the bronze age, and that the tube, even when it's working, and Ken Livingstone's wonderful new buses - with no opening windows - are totally unbearable in warm weather. The government's strategy is essentially nothing but to give cyclists lots of farciliities, designed by idiots, for idiots, to get cyclists away from where they will bother proper road users, and to demonstrate that cycling on an unchanged road is terribly dangerous and therefore "something must be done", even if it costs the poor overtaxed motorist even more money. That the facilities don't actually help cyclists is of no concern to anybody, as anyone who complains soon finds out. The farcilities strategy continues because, from the government's point of view, it's a success Jeremy Parker |
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Walking & cycling action plan published
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:08:41 +0100, "Colin Blackburn"
wrote in message : Every single cyclist pictured is wearing a helemt, bar one. Not a surprise - official DfT policy following RR30 (and not changed despite the gradual retraction some of the more ludicrous claims in RR30) Guy -- May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk 88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University |
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Walking & cycling action plan published
Jeremy Parker wrote:
Is anyone else as disturbed as I am to see this new trend towards thinking about cyclingandwalking as one word. It's the same as the trend to use the words "vehicle" or "traffic" to mean "not bicycles". It is a well known fact that cyclists are just peds-on-wheels who keep their maximum speed below 12 mph at all times to make sure that their expanded polystyrene headwarmers will work properly. :-) The announcement talks about the record of the government's cycle strategy in increasing cycling as "mixed". That's bull****. It hasn't been mixed, it's been a total failure, except in central London. In Central London the increase in cycling is attributed to the congestion charge. That could be partly true, but a few other factors like the Central Line and Northern Line tube being disrupted or totally out of service for months might be a factor, as might he fact that we have had the best summer since the bronze age, and that the tube, even when it's working, and Ken Livingstone's wonderful new buses - with no opening windows - are totally unbearable in warm weather. The government's strategy is essentially nothing but to give cyclists lots of farciliities, designed by idiots, for idiots, to get cyclists away from where they will bother proper road users, and to demonstrate that cycling on an unchanged road is terribly dangerous and therefore "something must be done", even if it costs the poor overtaxed motorist even more money. That the facilities don't actually help cyclists is of no concern to anybody, as anyone who complains soon finds out. The farcilities strategy continues because, from the government's point of view, it's a success Jeremy Parker The plan goes into great detail about how the numbers of cyclists & pedestrians should best be counted to produce the required outcome of the plan, i.e. a demonstrable increase in the number of people cycling & walking. cynic So, all the gubbymint have to do is make a super-deluxe shared use route from a large housing estate straight into the playground of a local school and close off all routes to the school which are accessible by four wheel drive jobbies. The before and after counts will show a massive increase in pupils cycling and walking which is obviously representative of the effect of the plan on a national level. /cynic Terry Duckmanton |
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Civil Officers to enforce bike lanes ?
"Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote in message ...
http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/group...vel_029204.pdf Interested to see the bit in the Press Release : 2. The Traffic Management Bill amendment will provide local authorities with a power to impose penalty charges when vehicles are driven in lanes reserved for cyclists and when pedestrian and cycle crossings are blocked by parked vehicles. These are not new offences: police already have the power to enforce these offences, but this amendment would extend those powers to local authorities. 3. The Department intends to introduce this new power next year. Guidance will be issued for local authorities enforcement officers in advance of the introduction of the new powers. I'm still trying to find out if anyone has ever been prosecuted for infringing a bike lane. Anyone know ? Tim |
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Civil Officers to enforce bike lanes ?
On 17 Jun 2004 14:05:20 -0700, Tim Henderson wrote:
I'm still trying to find out if anyone has ever been prosecuted for infringing a bike lane. Anyone know ? I doubt it. This isn't a totally one sided argument though. In two places mandatory cycle lanes on my way to work reduce the width of the road to less than a car width. I've always wondered the legal way to deal with these, do I stop before it gets narrow, wait for traffic to clear in the other direction, and overtake the cycle lane??? Steve |
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Walking & cycling action plan published
"Jeremy Parker" wrote:
Is anyone else as disturbed as I am to see this new trend towards thinking about cyclingandwalking as one word. I think you are overreacting in the case of this document. The focus is clearly on health and reduction in private motor traffic; in those contexts it makes perfect sense to lump cycling and walking together. In general, I though it was a pretty decent document. Though I have to admit the pictures of people wearing silly plastic hats to ride utility bikes at low speeds made me a bit nauseous. I am inured to seeing "serious"/"real" bike riders wear helmets (heck, I even do it myself), but somehow helmets just don't seem to fit with the idea of bike-as-transport for the masses. -- Peter Headland |
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