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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!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!txtfeed2.tudelft.nl!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e35d921$0$2527$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: The Battle of Blackfriars Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:37:20 +0100 References: <4il437pfc7jqssh4c7uq5lnttl5ei8tqev@4ax.com> <99femfF9dcU1@mid.individual.net> <_%HYp.114531$fl.40091@newsfe23.ams2> Lines: 26 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <_%HYp.114531$fl.40091@newsfe23.ams2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: fa0d637d.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=45Ugg53\o7O^\SlXSWER[Enok4Z\ On 29/07/2011 11:00, Paul - xxx wrote: >> 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 >> >> >> Now that I partly agree with. I disagree with keeping the speed limit >> to 20, it should be re-instated to 30, but why remove cycle lanes? At >> least gives more 'timid' cyclists an illusion of, if not the reality >> of, safety. > > Because the cycle lanes should never have been there - or anywhere else > in the first place. We should not be wasting public money - especially > the huge amount paid by motorists - to support a tiny freeloading minority.

Especially since many cyclists/psycholists refuse to use cycle lanes on "principle" (it's much more fun to obstruct motorists, despite the fact that those motorists are suddenly so "dangerous" when it suits the cyclists concerned).