Re: Are cyclists allowed to race on public roads?

[Matt B]

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 31 May 2005 02:59:53 +0100, Lum <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>> Blame Beeching - or rather the pro-car Government that handed him his
>>> conclusions and told him to find the supporting data.
>
>>Before my time, I think. I still have no idea who this guy is, presumably
>>a
>>transport minister in a previous government.
>
> He's the one who closed all the branch lines and cross-country links
> whose absence you note. Not a transport minister, a hatchet man.

Are you sure? I think you'll find that there was nearly as much closed
before Beeching became involved as after, and that most of that closed as a
result of Tory appointed Beeching's recommendations were under Labour
governments.

The closures were as a result of the mistaken belief that Britain's railways
could be stopped from haemorrhaging tax payers money, and that the public
_would_ start using them again in preference to personal transport.

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Matt B

 

[Lum]

Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:

> On Tue, 31 May 2005 02:59:53 +0100, Lum <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>>>There was no plate, I walked up and down the road several times, and
>>>>periodically re-checked during the years I was using it for free
>>>>praking.
>
>>> Inform the council.
>
>>Can't be arsed, they wont care now that they have employed parking
>>vultures,
>
> You think? It may make their parking fines invalid. I'm betting
> they'll care.

More than I do, I don't go there any more. I'll let someone else fight it
and get off with a ticket rather than get them to correct the sign.
>
>>>>If the single yellow requires the plate to say when you *cant* park then
>>>>surely no plate means you can park.
>
>>> No, it means you have to assume the working day (I think that's
>>> 8:30-5:30 or some such, but I don't know). But there should be a plate
>>> for a single yellow.
>
>>This was a Saturday, I never parked there during the week.
>
> So fight the ticket.

Probably a bit late now, I think there's a time limit on these things.
>
>>> Still and all, the problem appears to be "doughnutting".
>
>>What do chavs in Tesco car park after hours have to do with this?
>
> I could have sworn those goalposts were over there a minute ago...

It was a sarcastic way of saying I don't know what you mean by doughnutting
in this context.
>
>>> London is particularly attractive to rail commuters because of the
>>> time and expense of commuting into London by car. It takes well over
>>> an hour longer to get to the City from my house by car as by train.
>
>>And travelling to anywhere that isn't London is less attractive, many
>>politicians fail to realise this and continue to bang on at people using
>>cars.
>
> Yada yada yada. I don't live in London, and I don't work in London
> (except for visits to head office). I commute by train. My friend
> Séamus commuted by train from Dronfield to Manchester.

I'm assuming there's a sensible route between those two?
>
>>> You are missing the point. I changed the job; as a result I don't
>>> have to drive for work. Result!
>
>>Working on it. There is very little IT work in Liverpool, once I have
>>completed moving then I will be looking for another job (please god don't
>>let my employer be reading this!)
>
> If they are, you have just accelerated the process! ;-)

They'll have to prove it was me first
>
>>> Blame Beeching - or rather the pro-car Government that handed him his
>>> conclusions and told him to find the supporting data.
>
>>Before my time, I think. I still have no idea who this guy is, presumably
>>a transport minister in a previous government.
>
> He's the one who closed all the branch lines and cross-country links
> whose absence you note. Not a transport minister, a hatchet man.

Well that kinda sucks, though I thought the rail companies were just as bad
(ISTR them closing the incredibly useful link between Runcorn and Runcorn
East, useful because it joined to two sections of the rail network that
were miles apart by train. They reduced it to 3 trains a day at stupid
times, then said "well no-one uses it any more" and closed it.