Traffic Calming

brat

Richard53 wrote: »

Possibly an urban myth, but I read that somewhere in America they decided that the best way to regulate speed on a particular stretch was to time the traffic lights so that a car that maintained 30 mph got a set of green lights, whereas anyone driving faster was of course interrupted by reds every time. Great idea, but it was abandoned when someone realised that what works for 30 mph also works for 60, and 90 as well.

They have that in Germany. Spain too I believe.

MacMickster

Tobster86 wrote: »

So one minute, you claim to deliberately make a lot of engine noise to prove your point against speed humps to local residents, but then the next, state that they serve a function that cyclists should be equally (actually, worsely) subjected to?

I think someone's part of the 'jealous that I have to sit stationary in a lot of traffic' brigade, and is also probably a bit fat.

I certainly carry a bit of timber around the waist from good living, but that doesn't stop me from cycling to work in decent weather. It doesn't matter whether I am driving a car or enjoying a cycle ride. I stick to the rules of the road and don't regard my journey as some sort of competition between the motorist and cyclist (there will only ever be one winner - a bit like a Jack Russell getting aggressive with a German Shepherd).

Sadly, some on the road (both motorists and cyclists) do view it as a competition. I suspect that you are one of these - probably dressing like Bradley Wiggins rather than just adding a pair of bike clips to the trousers. I may be a bit fat around the waist. Far better than being fat in the head as you almost certainly are.

Go on Tobster. Get out the lycra and go chasing a few cars like that Jack Russell. Darwin's theory of natural selection will eventually get rid of idiots like you. Should you survive the day and decide to reply then please let me have the dictionary definition of "worsely" that you so eloquently and fat-headedly used in your previous post.

brat

MacMickster wrote: »

I stick to the rules of the road and don't regard my journey as some sort of competition between the motorist and cyclist (there will only ever be one winner - a bit like a Jack Russell getting aggressive with a German Shepherd).

Sadly, some on the road (both motorists and cyclists) do view it as a competition.

I don't agree with this observation at all. I don't know of any cyclist who 'competes' with motorists. Why would they? What's the point?

esuhl

MacMickster wrote: »

I certainly carry a bit of timber around the waist from good living, but that doesn't stop me from cycling to work in decent weather. It doesn't matter whether I am driving a car or enjoying a cycle ride. I stick to the rules of the road and don't regard my journey as some sort of competition between the motorist and cyclist (there will only ever be one winner - a bit like a Jack Russell getting aggressive with a German Shepherd).

Sadly, some on the road (both motorists and cyclists) do view it as a competition. I suspect that you are one of these - probably dressing like Bradley Wiggins rather than just adding a pair of bike clips to the trousers. I may be a bit fat around the waist. Far better than being fat in the head as you almost certainly are.

Go on Tobster. Get out the lycra and go chasing a few cars like that Jack Russell. Darwin's theory of natural selection will eventually get rid of idiots like you. Should you survive the day and decide to reply then please let me have the dictionary definition of "worsely" that you so eloquently and fat-headedly used in your previous post.

Wow. What a rude, ignorant and aggressive post. I doubt you know anything about Tobster's riding style... Yet here you are with your dim-witted assumptions and inferiority complex, proud of your unhealthiness, and with the bizarre idea that cyclists chase cars like mad dogs.

I wonder what sort of unhinged person has these fantasies and combative idea of road-users in dog-fights...? Almost certainly not someone who has any idea about the world around them... Being a "German Shepherd", I bet you love taunting the "Jack Russells" on the road when you're in your car, don't you?

I really think there ought to be both general aptitute and attitude assessments as part of the driving test. Some people are too narcissistic and beligerant to be allowed to use motor vehicles in public. They are just too selfish to care about anyone else's safety.

Bollotom

I'm a mongrel I only chase posties on a bike. Well I did until my owner took away my bike.

MacMickster

esuhl wrote: »

Wow. What a rude, ignorant and aggressive post.

My post was in response to an equally rude and aggressive but far more ignorant post.

I am both a motorist and cyclist. I am in excellent health -thanks for your concern.

I firmly believe in all road users observing all rules of the road. In over 30 years of driving I have never been involved in an accident or had points on my licence. I see many examples of aggressive behaviour from both motorists and cyclists.

My post was in response to that of Tobster86. Having read some of her other posts I guess that 86 is an IQ that she can only dream of having. I see her as being one of those cyclists who have all the gear but absolutely no idea who give the vast majority of ordinary cyclists a very bad name. Glad to see that she has a friend who will defend her on an internet forum though.

Tobster86

esuhl wrote: »

Wow. What a rude, ignorant and aggressive post. I doubt you know anything about Tobster's riding style...

Thanks. I won't go into much into accuracy detail on the points they raised, other than to say that I believe lycra is an affront to public decency so therefore choose not to own any of it!

MacMickster wrote: »

My post was in response to that of Tobster86. Having read some of her other posts I guess that 86 is an IQ that she can only dream of having.

Well, I honestly don't know what my IQ is either; presumably whatever is necessary to write software for embedded microcontrollers that control industrial machines and designing the supporting electronics, as I'm told I'm quite good at this by the people who pay me well to do it. You also got my sex wrong; although as I have the trademark hair for my occupation, you wouldn't be the first!