Fallen off ? It must be someone else's fault.

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:47:29 +0100, JNugent wrote:

On 29/07/2014 11:47, Peter Keller wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:25:06 +0100, Mrcheerful wrote:

Cyclist falls off while riding along a promenade (note the word) and
demands that railings be put up to reduce the effects of cyclist
stupidity. What next? Cushions all over the beach? I feel a Compo.
claim on the way ?

http://www.canterburytimes.co.uk/rai...uffers-horror-
injuries-beach/story-21962862-detail/story.html

Now she and partner Darren Parker, of Selsea Avenue, Herne Bay, are
calling for railings to be installed to prevent other people being
hurt.

Installing railings will NOT prevent other people getting hurt.

Quite so. But the harm done might be less if one crashes into the
railings and falls off a few feet rather than going right over the edge
when the tide's out (or in, I suppose).

True.
Better still to watch where one is going and bicycle according to the
conditions.

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:06:31 GMT,
(Cassandra) wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:09:44 -0300, "Ian Field"
wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:00:49 -0300, Mrcheerful wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:56:12 -0300, Bret Cahil wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:25:06 +0100, Mrcheerful wrote:

Cyclist falls off while riding along a promenade (note the word)

Red herring (as noted by others)

and
demands that railings be put up to reduce the effects

Why not? The taxes we all pay already go to the same sort of road-safety improvements; if a
particulary dangerous place is identified, why should that part of the road network not get the
attention it so clearly deserves?


Cyclists are sponging freeloaders who don't pay road tax - why should any of that money be spent on
them?

"Road Tax" (as you call it - the correct term is Vehicle Excise Duty) has nothing to do with roads;
it is instead a voluntary payment that a car driver chooses to make, which goes into the general
coffers.

And as cyclists in the UK have a higher-than-average median income they pay more taxes than average.

As most of them are children, this is impossible.


A) children pay taxes too

B) the LSE says most cyclists are adults


Andre Jute