In message <b9a3206d-760d-43f1-9785-e515fa83b63e@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
Sir Jeremy <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> If you're so keen on fighting the traffic, why is there a mass protest
> going on because Bristol council want to put buses on the Bristol-Bath
> railway? Surely you'd rather be on the A4 dicing with everyone else?
I often cycle on the B2B and the A4. They are completely different.
Cycling along the A4 if safer than on the B2B, but the B2B is more chilled
out.
> It seems to me that if cyclists want to be safe then they need to get
> off the roads, because traffic is simply too heavy and too fast.
If that is the case, then the problem lies with the idiot drivers that think
they own the road, and that everyone else should get out of their way e.g.
like "safespeed" and your namesake
> If
> cyclists kept to cycle paths such as those provided by Sustans then
> they'd be alot safer.
And how would I get to work, go shopping, or even get to a Sustrans path?
> That Scottish cyclist would still be alive as
> would those people foolish enough to go cycling up an icy mountain in
> Wales last year.
>
> If you want to risk your necks then by all means mix it with the
> traffic just don't come whining when you end up in hospital. Your
> choice.
Does the same apply to pedestrians trying to cross the road? What about
pedestrians have to walk in the road because the foot path is completely
blocked by parked cars, like whiteladies road was this afternoon.
Martin.
