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You are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
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- john_smith 3 hours 42 min ago
It looks dented to me, in the centre at the top, at the end of the long crack.
- NOtotheEU 3 hours 35 min ago
Deleted i should learn to read the article more thoroughly before posting!
- anke2 4 hours 36 min ago
Eburthebike, I find it interesting how you a) seem to only mention disbenefits that will actually not affect the cyclists that are wearing a helmet...
- David9694 5 hours 22 min ago
I wanted to ask about how you were loaded, Andy, it obviously works but you appeared lop-sided and everything was up-front.
- David9694 5 hours 42 min ago
Vixa - wellness for cars - unironic app from the AA.
- matthewn5 6 hours 17 min ago
It was in his manifesto. Westminster have had years of notice.
- Rendel Harris 6 hours 45 min ago
It's my secret I've been kidnapped signal...it happened to come up on my Facebook feed so I took a screenshot, no visiting their site or giving...
- levestane 6 hours 57 min ago
I wonder if this has the same weakness as another RD with a large diameter pulley centre...
- Steve K 7 hours 29 min ago
My other half often gets me Rapha stuff in the January sale for my late January birthday. But their urban range isn't what it was (I've got a few...
- Destroyer666 7 hours 29 min ago
Kudos for all the info and an interesting topic - you really know your stuff. But at times it becomes hard to digest because so much info is being...
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Looks like the internet remains unconvinced.
Also: our UK policy makers and major parties are unconvinced that cycling is "transport" for all the nice words.
Signs of minor change are appearing (here in Edinburgh at least). We still have a hump to get over though. It's a bit chicken and egg. Until we can reduce the numbers of journeys taken using private motor transport our "streets will be too narrow" for cycling, or we won't have "money to spare for a few enthusiasts". And we'll find our public transport keeps getting held up by the cars in urban areas.
What that graphic also fails to convey is that most places which have any success encouraging modes other than the car often run them separately. Cyclists on a separate cycle path are not "holding up traffic" (ignoring that in UK urban areas we all know that often it's the cars holding up the cyclists). Indeed because of their smaller size and being much less dangerous they can utilise short cuts which it wouldn't be realistic to permit to motor traffic.
Running buses at least partly on their own lanes or even separate bus ways - and especially giving them priority at busy junctions - is a necessity for convenient public transit in congested urban areas.
There seems to be a lot of love of sitting in traffic.
Though I reckon they are forgetting how angry and frustrated they got last time they did.
"I'm so angry I'm stuck in this traffic! I can't imagine how frustrated I'd be if I wasn't in my own car, I'd be really mad on a bus..."