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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!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e372d14$0$2934$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Another pavement death again! Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:47:47 +0100 References:    <99kjhfF4deU1@mid.individual.net> <2gsZp.81394$eG6.13134@newsfe09.iad> <99o3pcFooqU1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 31 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <99o3pcFooqU1@mid.individual.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 5f342996.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=feOW^jFR^V07SeeF=2_\U2YjZGX^207P;` > Responsible cyclists (there are some, even here)

I suppose, if you look hard enough....

> will not use footways > as cycle routes, maybe sometimes for the right reasons as well as wrong > ones.

Yes, I guess it's not *always* about wanting to self-righteously obstruct faster traffic (psycholists excepted)....

>>> The second is simply untrue: children are not allowed to cycle on >>> footways, any more than children are allowed to drive cars on them. > >> This doesn't seem to be enforced though. > > Correct. > > I don't expect you will use that as an argument in favour of it, though. > It would open up multiple cans of worms.

Yes, that's what I thought when I read that. How many times does Douggy-Wuggy complain vehemently about laws not being enforced against motorists properly?

Mind you, if you're going to be an illogical car-hater than it's necessary to keep descending to hypocrisy and double standards. We see it often with Doug and we see it even more often with his kindred spirit Chapman.