Nuxx:457558ce-1ea6-4f96-8829-4e4363d3a29f@l1g2000yqj.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!l1g2000yqj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <457558ce-1ea6-4f96-8829-4e4363d3a29f@l1g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: "Who is to blame for traffic chaos?" Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 05:36:34 -0800 (PST) References:  Lines: 23 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.173 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1234100195 15838 127.0.0.1 (8 Feb 2009 13:36:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:36:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l1g2000yqj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.173; 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: 1932 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:685313

On Feb 3, 11:25=A0pm, "Just zis Guy, you know?"  wrote: > Headline in the rag this morning. > > Good question. > > Possible answers include: > > * $DEITY

Only if you're stupid enough to believe in fairy tales.

> * $GUBMINT, for failing to spend fortunes on equipment which would > =A0 be needed easily half a dozen times a century > * Us, for making every election a Dutch auction on tax > * Nobody, it's not necessary to find someone to blame every time > =A0 we suffer some trifling if predictable inconvenience, just live > =A0 with it > > Last one works for me...

Yes, except that (as with any weather conditions) anti-motorist measures make progress slower than it would be without them.