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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!k2g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <1235a6ba-fdf8-43ad-8833-9a54ce8883e7@k2g2000yql.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: First two "Cycle Superhighway" routes announced Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:32:26 -0700 (PDT) References:  <8e8ba3af-4dc2-4d1f-b433-ed3daea2594a@37g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>   <3a51c691-ebb0-41ab-8576-10d5618f5375@r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com>     Lines: 28 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1244493146 16532 127.0.0.1 (8 Jun 2009 20:32:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:32:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k2g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.27; 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: 2795 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:708502

On Jun 6, 6:11=A0pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:55:13 -0700 (PDT), spindrift > >  wrote: > > [Newsgroups trimmed] > > >Here's how I suspect the "Super Highway" will look: > > >http://crapwalthamforest.blogspot.com/2009/06/great-london-cycle-netw... > > I am more optimistic. > > I expect parking on these routes to be banned with severe penalties.

Yeah, great. Impose yet more pointless restrictions on parking (or even briefly stopping with no other moving traffic in sight), together with absurdly high penalties for "contraventions" and discretionless, conveyer-belt, money-grabbing enforcement by CCTV. Don't you understand that the more pointless parking restrictions are put in, the less drivers will respect necessary restrictions?

It's no good saying that that "shouldn't happen": it does, because it's human nature. Due to this and many other factors, the war on the motorist is having *all sorts* of disastrous side effects which render it counterproductive to all but the most determined and obsessive car- haters.