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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!o36g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <0c211d61-2225-4245-b79c-b3332d429ed3@o36g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Shared cycle path - auditorially distracted pedestro-kretins stepping into the path of cycles Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:40:44 -0800 (PST) References:    Lines: 20 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.147 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1236404444 11184 127.0.0.1 (7 Mar 2009 05:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 05:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o36g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.147; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2144 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:688147

On Mar 6, 2:51=A0pm, lardyninja  wrote: > aigle_de_la_route wrote, On 06/03/2009 13:43: > > > In article , > > =A0"Light of Aria"  wrote: > > >> I am quite worried what my 35 Kilos of Bike > >> plus 84 Kilos of me plus 10 Kilos of luggage at 20KPH would inflict on= an > >> errant mutt-brained pedestrian. > > > No more than they deserve. > > What an asinine comment. When there are vulnerable and unpredictable > road users around, just bloody well slow down.

Yep, that's all you have to do. Just "slow down" (from some arbitrary speed to some lesser arbitrary speed) and vulnerable road users are magically protected from any type of error. Rejoice, everyone, road safety is simplicity itself after all.