Call you and yours

[John Hearns]

Call You and Yours is on the cycling towns of excellence,
and how the money should be best spent.
There is a mobile studio bus in York twon centre also.

Quentin Wilson just on R4, saying something like the money
should not go to tree-huggers.
I expect to hear some contributions from the gallery here.
Tree huggers or not. 0800 044 044

 

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:33:48 +0100, John Hearns wrote:


>
> Quentin Wilson just on R4, saying something like the money should not go
> to tree-huggers.
> I expect to hear some contributions from the gallery here. Tree huggers or
> not. 0800 044 044
20 mile commute to work impossible.

Then the next person on says "20 mile round trip to work is impossible"
"Cyclists should pay road tax"
Grrrr....
I even phoned in to say there was no such thing as road tax!

 

[Just zis Guy, you know?]

I submit that on or about Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:55:43 +0100, the person
known to the court as John Hearns <[email protected]> made a statement
(<[email protected]> in Your Honour's bundle)
to the following effect:

>Then the next person on says "20 mile round trip to work is impossible"
>"Cyclists should pay road tax"
>Grrrr....
>I even phoned in to say there was no such thing as road tax!

I was on the fern and next in line, but they went back to Darnton
instead. Ho hum. The name David Martin rang a bell, and there were a
couple of other very sensible cyclists on.

Guy
--
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

 

[David Martin]

Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> I submit that on or about Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:55:43 +0100, the person
> known to the court as John Hearns <[email protected]> made a statement
> (<[email protected]> in Your Honour's bundle)
> to the following effect:
>
> >Then the next person on says "20 mile round trip to work is impossible"
> >"Cyclists should pay road tax"
> >Grrrr....
> >I even phoned in to say there was no such thing as road tax!
>
> I was on the fern and next in line, but they went back to Darnton
> instead. Ho hum. The name David Martin rang a bell, and there were a
> couple of other very sensible cyclists on.

Not me.. I've been incommunicado getting to a meeting (had a nice ride
in the mancs rush hour today ;-) and am only just back online.

FWIW I used to do a 32mile round trip with kids in trailer in the
'renkowned as flat as a pancake' country of Norway.

...d

 

[iakobski]

Glad to hear I (and many others) are "achieving the impossible" by
cycling more than 20 mile round trips to work!

Just listened on "listen again"

Q: What would you spend a million pounds on for cyclists
A: make them pay road tax, stop them jumping red lights, yada, yada,
yada

Actually answering the question, repeated several times: it's far too
dangerous to cycle on the road, cycles and traffic don't mix, spend the
money on cycle paths away from those dangerous roads.