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The Truth About Bikes And Anti-Motorist Lanes:

http://tinyurl.com/36kls5

Very revealing all in all. TfL's true colours are exposed (again), as are those of militant cyclists (who are of course doing as much damage to proper cyclists' interests as anyone else's).

"A clue lies in the report's findings about the attitudes of other road users to the idea of motorcycles in bus lanes, with almost half the surveyed pedestrians and a large proportion of cyclists expressing negative views (although only 40 of 800 cyclists [11 of which were Spindrift, who isn't really a cyclist at all] returned their forms, which is statistically insignificant compared with total cycle usage in London). So although the move would clearly prevent many injuries and save lives, it might be greeted with disapproval from a significant number of voters who harbour a prejudice against motorcycles."

So there we have it. Conclusive proof that the extremist fundamentalist mentalist cycling freaks care more about their bizarre, perverse, ideological, absurd crusade against powered private transport than they do about even their own safety. They don't mind if they're being put in unnecessary danger by a policy as long as the sinners, aka motorists and motorcyclists, are being given a hard time by that same policy. They would vote for such a policy unhesitatingly, each and every time. It just goes to show how utterly warped, spiteful, prejudiced, interfering, illogical and unrelentingly negative the cycling trolls really are. Absolutely staggering. Yet no-one who is familiar with the transport debate will be the slightest bit surprised. It is by no means the first time that the extremists have placed the persecution of motorists and motorcyclists far above their own safety. Their continued, obstinate and ridiculous support of speed cameras, which beyond doubt put all road users in danger and cost many lives, is just one other example of their unbelievably screwed up priorities. It's cutting one's nose off to spite one's face on an unprecedented scale.

Quite what it is about cycling which attracts such twisted viewpoints is a mystery to me. Of course, there are also plenty of pleasant cyclists who genuinely want to see all road users coexisting peacefully, and they must be outraged that the extremist trolls continue to tarnish the image of their mode of transport with their misguided hatred of motorists, as well as their red light jumping, hypocrisy and non-stop obnoxiousness. Why can't the trolls accept that not everyone wants to cycle wherever they go? Why is the idea of sharing the roads with cars and motorcycles so fundamentally difficult for them to accept? Why can't they be positive, campaigning for things which will help them rather than hinder others, like car drivers, motorcyclists and sensible cyclists are doing? Why the constant militancy, belligerence and unpleasantness? What is the point? Will they not rest until every last car driver and motorcyclist is persecuted off the face of the planet? Are they that utterly intolerant of differing creeds and beliefs in other areas of their lives as well? Why do most of them lie and pretend not to be anti-motorist? Is it because they know they don't have a leg to stand on? (Saying "I drive myself", assuming it's even true, doesn't mean that they're not anti-motorist, it just means that they're hypocrites, and that they think they're somehow more entitled to drive than others.)

Most importantly, how do they sleep at night, knowing that they are advocating measures which have been shown to be costing lives? How do they manage to twist things round and justify that to themselves? Or are they such monsters that they don't even feel the need to try? How many tens of thousands have to die before they decide that it's not worth it after all? Is there any number of deaths that will tip the scales? Do these people have so much as a shred of compassion or common decency? What on earth happened that caused them to put their discrimination against powered private transport above saving even one life, let alone the eye-watering numbers that die every year on our roads? How dare they? How DARE they?

Let's all share the roads peacefully, happily and considerately. Tolerance in transport. A new era of understanding and positivity. An end to trolling cyclists once and for all. Those who feel an overwhelming need to be obnoxious and intolerant should take up a new cause which doesn't involve people dying in their thousands, or better still, see their doctors. It's high time that the lying stopped. It's high time for proper policies that are not dictated by spiteful, deranged, hateful extremists. You know it makes sense. You know it needs to happen. And you know it will happen, sooner or later, one way or the other. So let's make it happen now.