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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!l32g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Boris Johnson's 'Near Death' experience caught on fillum. Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 10:01:00 -0700 (PDT) References: <76eecbe4-bc2c-47f4-9978-0d7307af76bc@r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>    <0KydnTOxa4j1qYXXnZ2dnUVZ8s5i4p2d@pipex.net>     Lines: 86 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 1243184460 23490 127.0.0.1 (24 May 2009 17:01:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 17:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l32g2000vba.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: 4913 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:703704

On May 23, 9:30=A0pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2009 21:17:43 +0100, Marc > > > >  wrote: > >Tom Crispin wrote: > >> On Sat, 23 May 2009 20:40:44 +0100, Tom Crispin > >>  wrote: > > >>> On Sat, 23 May 2009 18:37:45 +0100, JNugent > >>>  wrote: > > >>>> spindrift wrote: > >>>>> On May 23, 6:20 pm, Keith T  wrote: > >>>>>> Simon Mason wrote: > > >>>>>>> "spindrift"  wrote in message > >>>>>>>news:76eecbe4-bc2c-47f4-9978-0d7307af76bc@r34g2000vbi.googlegroups= .com.... > >>>>>>>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/23/boris-cycling > >>>>>>>> Stone me, that was close, not even Johnson deserves that. > >>>>>>>> Was the lorry driver interviewed? > >>>>>>>> A spot check of London's lorries found that every single one had= a > >>>>>>>> defect in the vehicle or the driver was uninsured or exceeding t= he > >>>>>>>> tacho. > >>>>>>>> Close call. > >>>>>>> "Peddling" yet again, mind you, it *is* the Guardian. > >>>>>> Looking at the vid it appears that going over the speed humps a we= e bit > >>>>>> quick may have shaken the door loose. Careful driving at the corre= ct > >>>>>> speed might not have opened the door. A bit quicker might have. .= . > > >>>>>> Just another 'near death' experience for a cyclist. > >>>>>> You get used to them - sort of. > > >>>>>> -- > > >>>>>> Come to Dave & Boris - your cycle security experts.- Hide quoted t= ext - > > >>>>>> - Show quoted text - > >>>>> Actually, that's a totally dumbass place to overtake - looks like t= he > >>>>> lorry driver was desperate to overtake the bunch of cyclists, was w= ay > >>>>> over the other side of the road on a blind corner, going over a spe= ed > >>>>> bump! > >>>> It has the look and feel of a one-way street. > > >>>> Anyone know the location? > >>> Narrow Street, Limehose. =A0I know the road well, but didn't recognis= e > >>> it. > > >>>www.wharf.co.uk/2009/05/boris-in-lucky-escape-after-tr.html > > >>> Photos here: > >>>www.flickr.com/photos/beatnic/3553171857/ > > >> Here is an annotated Google Earth image of what I think is the exact > >> location. > > >>www.britishschoolofcycling.com/images/narrowst.jpg > > >> Note this is not a one-way road as mentioned in some articles, > >As shown by the car parked facing away from the camera? > > Yes, I had noted that too, but cars facing the wrong way in a one-way > street are not uncommon. =A0A couple of months ago I was invited to be > part of a consultation over cycling in Greenwich Park and routes into > the Park. =A0As we stood on the corner of a one-way road, pondering how > it could be given a cyclist contra-flow or revert to two-way road with > a point-no-entry for motor vehicles, a car driver, to our > astonishment, turned the wrong way into the road and parked.

Maybe because he's fed up with roads being made one-way just to spite motorists. Why not only make roads one-way when there's actually a good reason to do so, rather than in an effort to funnel as many drivers onto the "main" roads as possible just to cause congestion?