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Mine tend to get knocked by the chaining of the bicycle, then fall off later. To be found next time I use the light. Some crushed.
- ktache 10 hours 33 min ago
I'm guessing not that very manoeuvrable either.
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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..."