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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!o14g2000vbo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4caf0da7-a2bc-4836-839d-d863d8665892@o14g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Evening Standard bum gravy. Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 02:20:57 -0700 (PDT) References: <246b22f1-759e-411f-afdc-5049619d147d@x6g2000vbg.googlegroups.com>         Lines: 29 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.163.208.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1241601657 6245 127.0.0.1 (6 May 2009 09:20:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 09:20:57 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o14g2000vbo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.163.208.50; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2622 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:699668

On May 6, 9:51=A0am, "mileburner"  wrote: > Nuxx Bar wrote: > > On May 6, 6:58 am, "mileburner"  wrote: > >> JNugent wrote: > >>> mileburner wrote: > > >>>> It's a solution to a continually growing problem. Cars take up too > >>>> much road space, ... > > >>> ...says? > > >> Well if they didn't take up too much road space, there would be > >> plenty of space on the roads for them. Either that or there is too > >> many of them, or not enough roads. > > >> Pick your choose... > > > What about when anti-motorist measures (which at least you admit > > exist) artificially restrict the available space? > > They do not "artificially restrict" the space. They *do* actually restric= t > the space. That means that cars take up even *more* of the available spac= e.

But the point is that restricting the space is a deliberate act, and therefore you can hardly blame the cars for the resulting situation, and claim that it's a reason why drivers should be bullied off the roads.