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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!u20g2000yqj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: The CTC Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:41:57 -0700 (PDT) References:   Lines: 40 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.113.137.62 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1316544117 6200 127.0.0.1 (20 Sep 2011 18:41:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:41:57 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u20g2000yqj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=87.113.137.62; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3159 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:1053942

On Sep 18, 4:59=A0pm, "Simon Mason"  wrote: >  wrote in message > > news:mkjb771u595oa3e28gh68guk0uudrd8rhv@4ax.com... > > > > > Does anyone know the number of members over the last few years? > > I hear that membership is declining which I find hard to believe given > > that the > > number of cyclists has gone up year on year. > > I've been a member for ten years,

I'm not surprised, given that the CTC are a bunch of car-hating, intellectually dishonest nutjobs who are on record as supporting the reduction of speed limits in order to discourage motoring (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slower_Speeds_Initiative), which is a disgraceful abuse of the noble cause of road safety in order to achieve a spiteful political goal which only a small percentage of very strange people actually want.

When agenda-driven anti-car organisations like the CTC and Brake pretend that low speed limits and rigid speed enforcement are a (much) higher road safety priority than they really are, and those distorted priorities enter the minds of politicians, councillors and road users, people D-I-E. Do you get it yet? What is it about that which you find remotely acceptable, or are you simply in denial? I realise that certain people round here (e.g. your sociopathic, helmet-wearing idol whose every word you hang on) have no problem with the idea of "sacrificing" road users' lives in this way (apparently it's "worth it"), but for some reason I still cling to the idea that you are actually a somewhat decent human being underneath all the control freakery and hatred of anyone who drives.

So how about publicly denouncing the deliberate distortion of road safety priorities in order to force modal shift? Well? We all know you've read this post, so can I count on your support of proper road safety, or are you as callous as your great leader after all?