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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e334e2a$0$2501$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: The Battle of Blackfriars Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:19:52 +0100 References: <4il437pfc7jqssh4c7uq5lnttl5ei8tqev@4ax.com> Lines: 32 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4il437pfc7jqssh4c7uq5lnttl5ei8tqev@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 716f71e4.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=nDdX@[ik0SBj?`AYkC:bID0g@SS;SF6nGRiiCXJE[K>GbI^j>cZT0CA`:ITG5aA:cG\G2a>M;K\eK X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2854 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:819455

On 29/07/2011 07:44, Tom Crispin wrote: > Cyclists, led by London Assembly member, Jenny Jones, are set to do > battle with TfL and the Mayor of London after plans to increase the > speed limit on Blackfriars Bridge and remove all cycle lanes are due > to start this Friday. > > http://ibikelondon.blogspot.com/2011/07/last-stand-in-battle-for-blackfriars.html

What a ridiculous fuss over *one* speed limit being restored to what it permanently is anyway. I only wish that the sensible, pro-motoring majority were as organised as this, and had thrown such tantrums every time a stupid anti-motorist speed limit reduction, bus lane, road narrowing, road hump, etc had been proposed in the last 20 years.

The minority anti-motorist freaks have become far too used to getting their way, hence this absurd outburst on the one, completely trivial occasion when something's gone against them. I can only hope against hope that common sense once again prevails at some point in the future, the will of the majority is once again represented properly in politics, and screeching dishonest car-haters like these are given the minimal attention that they deserve. I'm not holding my breath...sadly I think this country is too far-gone and has pandered to the loonies for too long. Sad how a once-great nation has gone to the dogs (although the car-haters aren't the only problem by a long way).

Tom Crispin et al do themselves a grave disservice by supporting this clear and utterly unnecessary assault on the motorist. All the excuses for wanting to lower the permanent limit to 20mph are just that, excuses, and particularly poor ones at that. It's nothing to do with "safety", otherwise why don't these people ever propose or support measures which would increase cyclist safety *and* make things easier for drivers?