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Why aren't disabled cyclists treated the same as disabled motorists? Perhaps because cars cost a huge amount more to run than bicycles (even without the artificial extra costs)? Perhaps because the car is a proper, necessary, useful form of transport that disabled people actually want to, and are able to, use (how many disabled cyclists do
 * you* see)?

Don't forget, trolls, Doug is a self-confessed motorist-hater, so his views are clearly nothing like yours. No doubt Doug would like every single disabled person to get rid of their car and get on a bicycle, and that's what this topic is *really* about. No doubt he'd like disabled motorists' benefits to end, to "encourage" them to take the "correct" form of transport (and if they physically can't cycle, then tough...car use must end, and that's that). Perhaps he should go round telling disabled drivers that they're "addicted" to their cars. Most of them would hopefully have at least two limbs with which to beat the shit out of him.

I should think that disabled people, for whom the car is the only practical form of transport, get even more fed up than others at the constant persecution faced by motorists. They're the ones who suffer the most, and it shows how cold-hearted and callous the trolls who advocate anti-motorist measures really are. The trolls purport to think it's fair that a disabled person who's caught driving safely at 35 in a 30 four times in three years is banned. They purport to think that that's in the public interest. They know it isn't really, of course; but it is in the callous, rabid motorist-hating bastards' interest. Bullying disabled people with anti-motorist measures: they're the lowest of the low. Pure scum.