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A cyclist's rant to incompetent road users...
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Our council tax pays for the roads, the money goes to local councils and the local councils maintain local roads.
I can walk and cycle wherever I want if there's a Queens highway through the middle of it.... Even your back garden, hell I could even walk through your house if you built on top of a Queens highway and you'd be prosecuted for trying to stop me!
Queens highway is defined as any public road or right of way, it could be an A road or a foot wide dirt track.... It doesn't matter.
Your wrong buddy, so wrong it's unbelievable.... My right to use a public road or right of way as a pedestrian or cyclist CANNOT be removed, that would infringe on my Human rights. The only road where pedestrians/cyclists/horses are not allowed is on motorways (for obvious reasons).
Cycle lanes are there to protect cyclists, not to give drivers an easy time.... It's amazing how many drivers think the later.
They're also dirty, potholed, greasy, full of nails, debris and rotten leaves.... If a cyclist chooses not to use a cycle path for safety reasons, then it's tough sh*t and you (and I) have to just suck it up.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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I got cut-up/sideswiped by a car last night cycling home from work. The driver tried to overtake on a 3 lane-wide section then cut across in front of me to get into a bus/cycle lane(!) turning left. Didn't give me any room to manouever and due to potholes in the gutter we ended up coming together. Luckily I was alright and so was my bike, but I expect he has some scratches on his car now - mind you I noticed he had some largish dents in it already so he probably won't care. The real shame is that he could have followed safely behind me round the corner and then overtaken me safely a few seconds further up the road, and still got home at the same time.0
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Hope you're not too shaken up by your adventures. Unfortunately this isn't a compulsory reportable accident as you and your bike were unharmed, so he isn't obliged to have gone to the police about it.I got cut-up/sideswiped by a car last night cycling home from work. The driver tried to overtake on a 3 lane-wide section then cut across in front of me to get into a bus/cycle lane(!) turning left. Didn't give me any room to manouever and due to potholes in the gutter we ended up coming together. Luckily I was alright and so was my bike, but I expect he has some scratches on his car now - mind you I noticed he had some largish dents in it already so he probably won't care. The real shame is that he could have followed safely behind me round the corner and then overtaken me safely a few seconds further up the road, and still got home at the same time."Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world."— Frank Warren0 -
^^ The classic "left hook", look it up on Youtube for some really shocking video's.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Without the need to move trade goods efficiently, and cost effectively, you would still be walking the same roads as those Romans did!
What motivation is there in providing facilities out of my pocket in the Midlands, to allow someone in a Cornish village to walk to the next one?
With the logic of strider590, there would be NO roads out in the country, just footpaths, and if you have every right to walk from A to B, and "nobody can take it away from you", then without the roads, you may well need to cross privately owned land, and they CAN take it away from you! Where does strider get this idea of a 'God given right', to do what he wants, which he accuses drivers as adopting? The only reason he can walk from A to B, is because much of the land was compulsary purchased to build roads, and it sure as heck, wasn't so that strider can walk where he wants......It was to move goods, and later, to allow transport of workers from scattered locations, to get to places of employment, not by foot, but usually by public transport.
If you go somewhere a little more remote than where ever you currently infest, you will find highways which benefit from NO maintenance, either unclassified or occassionally classified as "C" roads. These are ancient roads, just as most of the roads between places are ancient roads. They were not compulsory purchased, but came into existance over time. These are the "green lanes" so beloved by off roaders, and they only exist because people have continued to use them on foot and horseback.
You also need to update your knowledge of history. Until the industrial revolution, the majority of the population was in the countryside, so the majority of roads were between places in the countryside as that is where they were needed.0 -
If you go somewhere a little more remote than where ever you currently infest, you will find highways which benefit from NO maintenance, either unclassified or occassionally classified as "C" roads. These are ancient roads, just as most of the roads between places are ancient roads. They were not compulsory purchased, but came into existance over time. These are the "green lanes" so beloved by off roaders, and they only exist because people have continued to use them on foot and horseback.
You also need to update your knowledge of history. Until the industrial revolution, the majority of the population was in the countryside, so the majority of roads were between places in the countryside as that is where they were needed.
The majoriy of roads(?) were in the country side? Do you mean muddy footways? That means, they would have cleared and asphalted footways to make proper roads, and proper roads, have nothing to do with pedestrian passageway. They go the most efficient route to connect towns and cities, not for pedesrians of local hamlets. What use are the old footways for commercial traffic?
I think you will find that many footways, were on other peoples land, and were a part of agricultural necessity for the farm labourers to go where they were needed.Some of these footways, became regular, and became 'rights of way' by custom and practice, but they can still be on someone else's land. Because you have 'right of way', does not mean you can install pavements and cycle paths, just that you have the right of unobstructed access to 'pass through' them. No rights to stay for picnics, or to go treasure trove hunting, or digging up worms, or to give your dogs some unrestrained exercise, particularly if there are livestock about.
How come so many roads DO NOT cater for pedestrians? They put pavements in the busier locations, to get them OFF the road, and out of the way of traffic, yet you think the roads they built for commercial traffic, were put there for pedestrians. Like I said earlier, you would still be walking on muddy footways, were it not for commercial traffic even if the do cover the same route people have walked for hundreds of years. Wasn't the footway 20 feet to the left of that asphalted bit? Then stick to the footway.0 -
The majoriy of roads(?) were in the country side? Do you mean muddy footways?
No, highways and byways.
As apposed to bridleways and footpaths.How come so many roads DO NOT cater for pedestrians?
They do cater for pedestrians - pedestrians and vehicles share the carriageway.0 -
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joolsybools wrote: »
Road tax is paid for by general taxation? Only because they asorbed the old road tax into general taxation so they could use it for other things. Fiddling the books effectively.
Roads from general taxation?
So why do car owners pay more than none car owners?
What ARE they taxing?
They get a kings ransom out of fuel, that should be enough.0 -
Why do I pay VAT on stuff that I buy yet my neighbour that doesn't buy pays no VAT? (please don't answer that, it was pedantic, rhetorical and a brain fart all rolled into one!)Roads from general taxation?
So why do car owners pay more than none car owners?
What are they NOT taxing?What ARE they taxing?
Apparently notThey get a kings ransom out of fuel, that should be enough.0
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