Re: Red lights jumping - interesting survey



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Daniel Barlow

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Squashme <[email protected]> writes:

> On 14 May, 14:32, Conor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In article <1igxg5k.d6vaq012fxypaN%%[email protected]>, Steve Firth
>> says
>> > "At Piccadilly Circus 101 roadusers jumped red lights in three hours,
>> > including 43 cyclists, 27 car drivers,"

>>
>> The figures look even worse if you are to take them as a percentage of
>> road user by type of vehicle. I'd say it would make cyclists at least a
>> hundred times worse.

>
> You'd SAY it, would you? But what's that worth?


Aproxaimately nada, rien, zilch, 0, nothing whatsoever, unless you're
looking at figures for road users by type of vehicle _at Piccadilly
Circus_. It's not exactly typical of the rest of the country, is it?


-dan
 
On 14 May, 16:27, Daniel Barlow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Squashme <[email protected]> writes:
> > On 14 May, 14:32, Conor <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> In article <1igxg5k.d6vaq012fxypaN%%[email protected]>, Steve Firth
> >> says
> >> > "At Piccadilly Circus 101 roadusers jumped red lights in three hours,
> >> > including 43 cyclists, 27 car drivers,"

>
> >> The figures look even worse if you are to take them as a percentage of
> >> road user by type of vehicle. I'd say it would make cyclists at least a
> >> hundred times worse.

>
> > You'd SAY it, would you? But what's that worth?

>
> Aproxaimately nada, rien, zilch, 0, nothing whatsoever, unless you're
> looking at figures for road users by type of vehicle _at Piccadilly
> Circus_. It's not exactly typical of the rest of the country, is it?
>


Indeed, although according to Wikipedia:-

"It has been said that a person who stays long enough at Piccadilly
Circus will eventually bump into everyone they know."

Of course, in this case, if everyone they know is a motorist and a
RLJer, everyone they know will eventually bump into them.

Unless they stay on the pavement, in which case they may be safe,
apart from the odd cycle-tread abrasion.
 
On Wed, 14 May 2008 16:27:48 +0100, Daniel Barlow wrote:

> Squashme <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On 14 May, 14:32, Conor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> In article <1igxg5k.d6vaq012fxypaN%%[email protected]>, Steve Firth
>>> says
>>> > "At Piccadilly Circus 101 roadusers jumped red lights in three hours,
>>> > including 43 cyclists, 27 car drivers,"
>>>
>>> The figures look even worse if you are to take them as a percentage of
>>> road user by type of vehicle. I'd say it would make cyclists at least a
>>> hundred times worse.

>>
>> You'd SAY it, would you? But what's that worth?

>
> Aproxaimately nada, rien, zilch, 0, nothing whatsoever, unless you're
> looking at figures for road users by type of vehicle _at Piccadilly
> Circus_. It's not exactly typical of the rest of the country, is it?
>


Even if it were his maths would be wrong.
 

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