Nuxx:711f86f3-679b-4169-bd7b-54059fef5902@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <711f86f3-679b-4169-bd7b-54059fef5902@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Road User Hierarchy: Good News! Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 37 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.189.142 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1216039626 32210 127.0.0.1 (14 Jul 2008 12:47:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:47:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.189.142; 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) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3039 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:657549

I've just heard that at his GLA Confirmation Hearing, Mayor Boris's new TfL Director of Transport made clear that Livingstone's "Road User Hierarchy" is now a thing of the past. In case anyone wasn't aware, Livingstone, who isn't at all anti-motorist according to the trolls, decided that this would be the Hierarchy:

Walking (including the mobility impaired) Cycling Public transport / taxis Motorcycles Commercial vehicles Private cars [Wow! Who would have thought?]

I'm glad that such mean-spirited prejudice and discrimination is over, and that all modes of transport will now be respected and treated fairly. I'm sure that, since they're not anti-motorist, the trolls will join me in being pleased about this development.

Except that they won't. Spindrift won't, Chapman won't, and their disciples won't. Because they *are* all anti-motorist, and the absurd lies which they continually tell beggar belief. "I'm not anti- motorist, I just support the Road User Hierarchy, universal road pricing [against the wishes of the people], [dangerous] speed cameras everywhere, lowered speed limits everywhere, huge VED rises, traffic lights being phased and installed specifically to hold up motorists, motorcyclists being banned from bus lanes [despite that being less safe], rising fuel tax and petrol prices, Livingstone's =A325 congestion charge, expensive parking permits for 'gas guzzlers', removal of roadspace for cars, etc, etc." Isn't that the case with you, Chapman? If so, can't you see how ridiculous it looks? If not, which of those things do you not support? (Even if there are one or two of those things that you don't support, my point remains.) Of course it goes without saying that The Deranged One (aka Spindrift) supports every one of those things wholeheartedly.

Honestly. You trolls would crack me up, if lives weren't being lost because of such nonsensical attitudes.