Nuxx:4e1e0f62$0$2934$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e1e0f62$0$2934$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Boris rejects 20mph limit Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:34:23 +0100 References:  <3d94a399-6369-4c69-8987-9e8e728f42f0@v12g2000vby.googlegroups.com> Lines: 13 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3d94a399-6369-4c69-8987-9e8e728f42f0@v12g2000vby.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 7a9a103a.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=\7a??`2J[g]S^RFZ\dPNcWYjZGX^207P[` On Jul 13, 5:02 pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: >> In a shocking betrayal of cyclists, the London Mayor, Boris Johnson >> rejected calls to limit motorists' speed to 20mph, even though he >> accepts that motorists' average speed across the bridge is 12mph.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H9SINEWUqY > > Why does there need to be a speed limit of 20mph when traffic barely > exceeds half of that average speed anyway?

In order to spite motorists who are on the bridge when it's empty in the small hours, of course. (I believe the average speed throughout London is not much different to 12mph, so I'm glad you appear to be against all 20mph limits in the capital for that reason....)