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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!c18g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Road apartheid and driver supremacy? Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:32:27 -0700 (PDT) References: <81b285be-0799-4fd0-8ba5-e8e9db46a29e@e21g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> Lines: 16 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.150.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1245054747 16911 127.0.0.1 (15 Jun 2009 08:32:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c18g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.150.242; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2204 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:709896

On Jun 15, 6:33=A0am, Doug  wrote: > Anyone have any thoughts on road segregation, where vulnerable victims > such as pedestrians and cyclists are kept away from roads, ostensibly > for their own safety but actually to benefit motorised traffic, by > speeding it up and to avoid insurance claims?

What is the problem? There are plenty of places that cars aren't allowed to go; there are very few places that cyclists/pedestrians aren't allowed to go. Cars have priority over pedestrians on roads simply because the primary purpose of roads is for motor traffic. Pedestrians have their pavements which are perfectly adequate except when they need to cross, and when they need to cross they're given priority. Who on Earth could have a problem with that arrangement, except someone who hated motorists, wanted them to be bullied off the roads and was just using supposed discrimination against pedestrians/ cyclists as an excuse to advocate that?