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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out1.kabelfoon.nl!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!xindi.nntp.kabelfoon.nl!198.186.194.249.MISMATCH!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!m42g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <1ccceece-d128-4a8c-90be-6f7826ff439a@m42g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: The Motorist-Haters: *Bad News* for Cyclists Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:12:09 -0800 (PST) Lines: 32 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.153.43.253 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235074329 13146 127.0.0.1 (19 Feb 2009 20:12:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:12:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m42g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.153.43.253; 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: 3130 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:686410

Those who realise that the closet motorist-haters like Spindrift and Chapman are indeed using cycling and this newsgroup as a front for their anti-car activities, but don't really mind because they still think they're somehow helping cycling by doing so (if only inadvertantly), may want to consider this.

The motorist-haters generally oppose new road-building, and above all, they oppose motorways and fast dual carriageways, because they're just for those selfish cager wankers. They've been opposing those things for a very long time; many are "veteran anti-road protestors". If they'd had their way, we'd have no motorways today, and no bypasses. Can you imagine how much traffic would be trying to get through all those towns and villages which have former, now bypassed, trunk routes going right through their centres? The risk to cyclists and pedestrians, not to mention the constant unpleasantness and irritation for anyone living or working in the settlements in question, would be hugely increased.

It's just one of a series of ways in which the motorist-haters' aims are fundamentally opposed to those of proper pro-cycling people. Not only are the motorist-haters hijacking the worthy cause of cycling, and giving cyclists a repuation as a bunch of crazed, obnoxious, car- hating lycra louts because they keep speaking for them, and tend to be more vocal than real cycling advocates; they are also actively making things more dangerous for cyclists by campaigning for no new road building, speed cameras, chicanes and similar obstructions, and many other things which increase cyclist KSI figures.

The proper cyclists need to tell the motorist-haters where to go, starting with Spindrift, whose demented and obsessive anti-car stance must be entirely obvious to anyone with more than a couple of brain cells who isn't seriously deluded.