Don't stop posting these snippets Simon, local newspapers are a great form of entertainment
especially the Going On letters like this. I think I'll start taking the bike on the bus through
Leeds until I get to some quieter roads on which to ride. Hope P Arundell was actually watching
where he was going whilst snapping the cyclists, I have visions of that poor Policemen at the Tour
that time and that German guy at the top of Alp D'Huez !! At least Jalabert and that Italian rider
were on the road !
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> > Simon Mason <
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> >
> > > Here:
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zpaper.htm
> >
> > Am I the only one that is annoyed by posting's which are just URLs? I have seen a local NG that
> > has gone down the pan because of this habit, resulting in people just posting urls back and
> > forth to each other and saying things like " Yes, that's good isn't it?", no real discussion,
> > and never a hint about that the original post was about.
>
> At first I thought you meant that we don't want to download tedious letters from obscure
> provincial newspapers about people riding on pavements, in which case I would save my time and web
> space by not putting them on the 'net in the first place.
>
> Then I realised that you meant that I should put up a description of the item along these lines.
> "In our local paper today a parent whose teenage daughter was injured by a pavement cyclist
> complained to the police who sent round an inspector to discuss the matter with them. The
> inspector assured the parent that additional police resources would be diverted to the problem
> area. The parent has seen no evidence of this and indeed went so far as to take photos of the
> cyclists. While the parent accepts that the police have a difficult enough job as it is they feel
> that there should be some action on clamping down on the problem."
>
> Now, if I had written this then the posting of the URL would have been futile, since anyone can
> work the above out for themselves by reading the letter. It needs no introduction at all. The
> reader's thought processes would then conclude that even if someone goes to all the trouble that
> this parent did, then it is still very unlikely that a pavement cyclist will get fined.
>
> The post need not have been intended to initiate a discussion thread; indeed the other post about
> constructing a sports stadium with a dedicated cycle track to the front door along with 300 stands
> was not intended to create a thread. It was merely to show that the needs of cyclist were
> pre-eminent in the designer's minds, ahead of cars since these have to be left in the city centre.
> However, if people don't want this sort of thing on a cycling NG then I won't waste my time
> posting it here.
>
> Simom
