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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!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e35f43c$0$2496$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: The big bucks to be gained by ditching a car. Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:33:00 +0100 References:   Lines: 15 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 23d0fee9.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=kB;aj:IPQl > Cycling is painfully slow (except in 'rigged' challenge)

Yes, in the same way that the only surveys which ever (supposedly) show that the public is in favour of speed cameras are also rigged. Every time it's a simple question like "Are you in favour of speed cameras?", around 80% of the general public say "No". It's only when you start asking stupid things like "If speed cameras saved 1000 lives a year then would you be in favour of them?" that you get a majority saying "Yes".

The anti-car/pro-cyclist bunch are not known for their honesty, that's for sure. If they want to "show" something and they know it's not actually the case then that won't stop them from "showing" it somehow. It's incredibly irresponsible to say the least.