Red lights and cyclists

ceebeeby

harveybobbles wrote: »

I'd love to meet a cyclist who stops for a red light...

Nice to meet you!!!

Have never yet jumped a light on a bike :A

Harry_Flashman

tomstickland wrote: »

All cyclists I know pay road tax for their cars. They are not freeloading; they are saving everyone else money in terms of road wear and congestion.

And the extras that they want such as cycle lanes, extra spaces at traffic lights, etc.? Who pays for them?

Harry_Flashman

bosseyed wrote: »

Its just annoying to see people being utterly dense. It takes no real imagination to picture your unprotected head striking concrete and the consequences of such an interaction.

It's still no-one else's damned business but their own.

bosseyed

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

It's still no-one else's damned business but their own.

Hey, I'm only thinking of the CHILDREN, won't someone think of the CHILDREN, especially those carried on handlebars without a helmet where their parents haven't the common sense to think what might happen to little Jimmy if they get knocked off

Harry_Flashman

bosseyed wrote: »

Hey, I'm only thinking of the CHILDREN, won't someone think of the CHILDREN, especially those carried on handlebars without a helmet where their parents haven't the common sense to think what might happen to little Jimmy if they get knocked off

That ain't what BBB was saying though was it?

johnfarquhar74

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

And the extras that they want such as cycle lanes, extra spaces at traffic lights, etc.? Who pays for them?

That'll be the same people that pay for motorways & A-roads, paid for through general taxation but not open to all users because of safety, the same reason we have cycle lanes and advanced stop box's!

Harry_Flashman

So what do we pay road tax for - to use the roads I thought (in a general fashion). There should be a form of road tax for ALL road users, that would establish their right to be there.

Rolandtheroadie

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

So what do we pay road tax for - to use the roads I thought (in a general fashion). There should be a form of road tax for ALL road users, that would establish their right to be there.

DONT say they should pay road tax, it'll just upset them.
I'd make insurance cumpulsary tho.

adouglasmhor

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

So what do we pay road tax for - to use the roads I thought (in a general fashion). There should be a form of road tax for ALL road users, that would establish their right to be there.

We pay road tax so the Government can spend our money servicing debt same as every other tax.

sequence

"Vehicle Excise Duty (VED, also commonly known as road tax) is an annual vehicle tax in the United Kingdom which should be paid for most types of motor vehicle which are to be used (or parked) on the public road; a vehicle licence should be displayed on the vehicle. VED is an excise duty which is collected and enforced by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). Excise duty on road vehicles was first introduced in the 1888 budget and a new excise duty specifically for motor vehicles was introduced in 1920 which was paid into the road fund and was hypothecated for road construction. Since 1937 the money has gone into central government revenues and since then has not contributed directly to road building or maintenance."

From : wikipedia

73 years and still people think "Road tax" pays for the roads! :rotfl: