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"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:49:15 +0900, James Annan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >Somehow I think they would much rather hear about a few scare stories rather than the
> >overwhelming majority of uneventful trips.
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> I'd bet a fiver on it, except I haven't got a fiver because there was duty and VAT due on my
> parcel from the USA this morning.

Is this why your manifesto includes zero duty and vat on bike bits?

cheers, clive
 
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:52:17 -0000, "Clive George" <[email protected]> wrote:

>> I'd bet a fiver on it, except I haven't got a fiver because there was duty and VAT due on my
>> parcel from the USA this morning.

>Is this why your manifesto includes zero duty and vat on bike bits?

Heh! I wrote it before the parcel arrived - it's mostly because I can't afford a Bike Friday
tandem :)

Guy
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Jeremy Parker <[email protected]> wrote:

> I suppose that it will cost about as much to scrub off all the bike lane paint as it did to put it
> down in the first place, but it will be worth every penny.

It won't cost that much , they will wear away and there won't be a budget to replace them.

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> > I suppose that it will cost about as much to scrub off all the bike lane paint as it did to put
> > it down in the first place, but it will be worth every penny.
>
> It won't cost that much , they will wear away and there won't be a budget to replace them.
>
I regret it doesn't work that way. I've seen the situation in the USA where bike alnes were
invented, and have been around longer. It takes about twenty years for the lane to vanish.

The coloured paint does fade more quickly, though, and usually people forget to reinstall a bike
lane if the road is resurfaced.

Jeremy Parker
 
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