Cycling: red lights

custardy

thelawnet wrote: »

It's quite a simple matter to provide cycle parking, and very easy to satiate demand, unlike, say, parking for 4x4s immediately outside schools at 3pm. So yes I agree that the government should ensure that there is adequate provision of cycle stands nationally.

this is Edinburghs new option
these hoops are popping up

thelawnet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/mar/26/cyclehoops-bike-locks

Don't think Mr. cyclehater approves of this. A bike might fall over and make the pavement messy.

Everyone knows that pavements should be for parking cars on....

custardy

thelawnet wrote: »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/mar/26/cyclehoops-bike-locks

Don't think Mr. cyclehater approves of this. A bike might fall over and make the pavement messy.

Everyone knows that pavements should be for parking cars on....

thing is
designers don't seem to consider cycle parking
My gym is in a new development
no parking at all due to its city centre location
fed by a large shared cyle route(Edinburgh Meadows) yet no cycle parking provision
The newly refurbished commonwealth pool
cycle parking has been stuffed at the side of the car park
multi million pound refurb with cycle parking an after thought.

thelawnet

Apparently you cannot cycle to the Olympics.

http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/olympics-boss-main-traffic-free-cycle.html

There will be also massive fines for cycling in the special plutocrat lanes between Park Lane and Stratford (obviously they couldn't stay in Stratford, not posh enough).

ROY47

thelawnet wrote: »

The lycra types are called 'road cyclists'. They ride expensive bikes made from exotic materials, at higher speeds. This means that they ride on the roads. Some of them go through red lights (which is not legal)

To the original poster of the topic if your still here

you sir have just shot yourself in the foot with that statement especially this bit

and I quote

"Some of them go through red lights (which is not legal)"

but it's o.k. for you to do it is it ?

rev_henry

thelawnet wrote: »

Apparently you cannot cycle to the Olympics.

There will be also massive fines for cycling in the special plutocrat lanes between Park Lane and Stratford (obviously they couldn't stay in Stratford, not posh enough).

:eek: WHAT?!

thelawnet

ROY47 wrote: »

To the original poster of the topic if your still here

you sir have just shot yourself in the foot with that statement especially this bit

and I quote

"Some of them go through red lights (which is not legal)"

but it's o.k. for you to do it is it ?

Look, I break laws, we all do.

If you can sleep at night, it's all good.

thelawnet

rev_henry wrote: »

:eek: WHAT?!

http://road.cc/content/news/37440-cyclists-face-%C2%A3200-fine-riding-olympic-vip-lanes-you-can-use-gutter-instead

mazza111

thelawnet wrote: »

Look, I break laws, we all do.

If you can sleep at night, it's all good.

Begging your pardon kind sir, I don't. At least not deliberately anyway. You have deliberately broken the law by driving/riding through a red light.

Yes I have in the past sped when in a strange car and not noticed the speedo :rotfl: Think we've all done that by getting into a bigger car. Does that make it right? Does one person breaking the law make it right for another person to do so?

That's like saying, I can go out and murder my neighbour's kids (which I would gladly do) because a motorist jumped a red light last week.


Law is the law. You break it then expect to be done. Ok the examples I've given are extreme, but as previously said...

mikey72

mazza111 wrote: »

Begging your pardon kind sir, I don't. At least not deliberately anyway. You have deliberately broken the law by driving/riding through a red light.

Yes I have in the past sped when in a strange car and not noticed the speedo :rotfl: Think we've all done that by getting into a bigger car. Does that make it right? Does one person breaking the law make it right for another person to do so?

That's like saying, I can go out and murder my neighbour's kids (which I would gladly do) because a motorist jumped a red light last week.


Law is the law. You break it then expect to be done. Ok the examples I've given are extreme, but as previously said...

Of course we all break the law.
We just break the ones we don't think matter.

You honestly have never driven at 75mph on a motorway, or 65mph on a country road?

Never put cardboard in the wheelie bin?



Never dropped a swwet wrapper?