Speeding cyclists

James Hodson <[email hidden]>typed

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On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:02:39 GMT, [email hidden] (pmailkeey) wrote:

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Lobby your Council for grade separated crossings.

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Hi Mike

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What is a grade separated crossing?

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James

Something to be rejected!

A subway or footbridge, so that pedestrians, travelling with no assistance have to waste energy
climbing and descending ramps, usually taking an unnecessarily long route for the conveience of
wheeled and motorised road-users.

Fit pedestrians frequently jump over guard rails to avoid them, occasionally getting killed by
murderists. One 'grade-separated' crossing I know (at the A406/A502 crossroads in North-West London)
has a footbridge which is EIGHT times as long as crossing on the level.

Grade-separated crossings are HORRIBLE!

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:20:53 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht
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James Hodson <[email hidden]>typed

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On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:02:39 GMT, [email hidden] (pmailkeey) wrote:

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[SNIP]

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Lobby your Council for grade separated crossings.

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Hi Mike

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What is a grade separated crossing?

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James

Something to be rejected!

A subway or footbridge, so that pedestrians, travelling with no assistance have to waste energy
climbing and descending ramps, usually taking an unnecessarily long route for the conveience of
wheeled and motorised road-users.

Fit pedestrians frequently jump over guard rails to avoid them, occasionally getting killed by
murderists. One 'grade-separated' crossing I know (at the A406/A502 crossroads in North-West
London) has a footbridge which is EIGHT times as long as crossing on the level.

Grade-separated crossings are HORRIBLE!

I'd amend that to

grade-sparated crossings are HORRIBLE, unless it's the motorists who have to negotiate the
ganges of grade.

I'm fine with the road being sent down a tunnell, through an underpass, or up over a bridge.

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Helen Deborah Vecht said:

Something to be rejected!

A subway or footbridge, so that pedestrians, travelling with no assistance have to waste energy
climbing and descending ramps, usually taking an unnecessarily long route for the conveience of
wheeled and motorised road-users.

Hi Helen

A reasonably complex term for a simple crossing.

The only one of these things I have ever used is one where I hacked up and bounced down a stepped
footbridge across the A259.

As you say: they're to be avoided.

James

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:20:53 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht <[email hidden]> wrote (more
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James Hodson <[email hidden]>typed

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On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:02:39 GMT, [email hidden] (pmailkeey) wrote:

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>Lobby your Council for grade separated crossings.

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I'm fine with the road being sent down a tunnell, through an underpass, or up over a bridge.

The proposition has been rejected on the grounds of cost.

Let's just shepherd the pedestrians into horrid subways and footbridges on the grounds of safety...

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On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:44:03 GMT, Trevor Barton <[email hidden]>
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🙂Why do you persist in your misunderstanding of the word
:calibrated?

Sorry, I'm just using it as defined in a dictionary !

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On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:30:21 +0000, James Hodson
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🙂On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:02:39 GMT,
:[email hidden] )(pmailkeey) wrote: )
🙂[SNIP] ) )>Lobby your Council for grade separated
:crossings. ) )Hi Mike ) )What is a grade separated
:crossing?

Different height - using underpasses & bridges.

Council technojargon, I think !
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:20:53 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht
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🙂James Hodson <[email hidden]>typed
🙂 ) )> On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:02:39 GMT,
:[email hidden] )> (pmailkeey) wrote: ) )>
:[SNIP] ) )> >Lobby your Council for grade separated
:crossings. ) ) )Grade-separated crossings are HORRIBLE! )

No they're not. It's just the design of some that's
horrible !
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pmailkeey said:

On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:44:03 GMT, Trevor Barton
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🙂Why do you persist in your misunderstanding of the word
:calibrated?

Sorry, I'm just using it as defined in a dictionary !

Sigh. Back again?

That would be one of: "calibrate": (2) to mark (the scale of
a measuring instrument) so that readings can be made in
appropriate units. (3) to determine the accuracy of (a
measuring instrument, etc.).

That's verbatim from Collins 2 ed, and I left out 1 and 4
which were explicitely to do with guns and artillery.

Where in that dictionary definition does it mention
certificates, annual calibration, or absolute accuracy? My
watch is calibrated, because I know it's absolute accuracy.
It tells me the actual real absolute time in GMT at the
moment to within an accuracy of plus or minus 5 minutes.
Within both those definitions, a speedo is calibrated.

If you're going to quote a dictionary it's generally a good
idea to actually read one first.

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Trevor Barton

Trevor Barton said:

If you're going to quote a dictionary it's generally a
good idea to actually read one first.

It's all very well him looking up the definition of the word
'calibrate' but it sounds to me like he also needs to learn
the definitions of the words 'accurate' and 'precise' and
realise that there is a difference between the two.

d.

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:03:53 +0000, Trevor Barton
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If you're going to quote a dictionary it's generally a good
idea to actually read one first.

I read one once. Very dull.

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I read one once. Very dull.

Yeah, [censored] plot, but at least the author explained all the
long words I didn't know (and a few thousand that I did)

:-)

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I read one once. Very dull.

Yeah, [censored] plot, but at least the author explained all the
long words I didn't know (and a few thousand that I did)

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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:03:53 +0000, Trevor Barton
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If you're going to quote a dictionary it's generally a
good idea to actually read one first.

I read one once. Very dull.

Oh, I don't know, I knew a bloke who read one on the dunny
every day. He was extremely erudite in the 6th form. Ended
up as a psychiatric nurse, though.

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Yes, I did grow up in Australia, and so at that time it
was a dunny.

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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:03:53 +0000, Trevor Barton
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If you're going to quote a dictionary it's generally a
good idea to actually read one first.

I read one once. Very dull.

I gave up after the first twenty-odd pages. I'm waiting for
the film version...

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