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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!y10g2000prc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <9b06d85d-71cc-45c2-837f-7eabb1d241d7@y10g2000prc.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.motorcycles,uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: London Bus Lanes Survey Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 04:45:02 -0700 (PDT) References: <75r13lF19l3j4U1@mid.individual.net> <49f8560f$0$2483$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk>  <00d2e195-953b-4744-85cc-9e87e7d1853a@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Lines: 47 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.154.123.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1241178303 13492 127.0.0.1 (1 May 2009 11:45:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 11:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y10g2000prc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.154.123.12; 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: 3313 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:698787

On Apr 29, 3:05=A0pm, "TOG@Toil"  wrote: > On 29 Apr, 14:34, Bear  wrote: > > > > > In article <49f8560f$0$2483$db0fe...@news.zen.co.uk>, Hog says... > > > > Chris Sharp wrote: > > > > I do a lot of cycling. I've been a member of the London Cycling > > > > Campaign (on and off) since 1992. They do worthwhile and valuable > > > > things. > > > > > However, they've got their knickers in a right old twist about > > > > motorbikes being allowed in bus lanes. > > > > > I got their monthly email this morning - it's urging all cyclists t= o > > > > "make their views known" to TFL, who are conducting a survey of roa= d > > > > user attitudes to this development. > > > > > Just in case anyone here would like to make their views known, here= 's > > > > a link to the survey in question : > > > > >https://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/roadusers/finesandregulations/motorcyclei= n... > > > > anes/default.aspx > > > > Fucking twats. =A0Like taxis and buses are easier companions. > > > That was my first thought too. =A0Weird.

It's not weird once you realise that the fucking twats concerned are actually just anti-motorist and anti-motorcyclist (they don't like private powered transport, except when they're using it), and just pretend to be "pro-cyclist" in a futile effort to make their position appear acceptable. uk.rec.cycling is bursting at the seams with such twats, such as spindrift, and the group moderator, Guy Chapman.

As is pointed out, taxis and buses actually put cyclists in more danger than motorcyclists. It's just one way in which the motorist- haters campaign to make things *more dangerous* for cyclists rather than less, such is their determination to give drivers and motorcyclists a hard time. It's absolutely despicable, and the real cyclists lose out probably even more than the motorists and motorcyclists do.