Nuxx:Bef8b102-95a4-4f40-9641-59f83ebbec73@z1g2000yqn.googlegroups.com

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On Feb 8, 9:51=A0pm, a...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Alan Braggins) wrote: > In article , AndyC wrote: > >"Nuxx Bar"  wrote in message > >news:4153e463-3366-4752-9618-8986398976df@i38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com..= . > >> What would you prefer in this case? =A0To share lane 1 with traffic? > >> What is wrong with segregating fast traffic and much slower bicycles > >> in the way that they have done here? > > >Nice idea! What do you propose is done to achieve that? Close a lane on > >every road (which has more than one) so that cyclists can have a lane to= o? I > >think that would be a bit radical for the UK *and* it would have the cag= ers > >whinging... > > Why restrict it to "which has more than one"? If Nuxx doesn't want to sha= re, > he can avoid single lane roads and leave them to cyclists. His chances of > persuading drivers in general are small, but so long as he lives in a wor= ld > of his own, that needn't be a problem.

I'm not saying I "don't want to share", and I don't care about cyclists being on urban roads, or even (sporadically) on single- carriageway rural ones. But it's daft to have them sharing rural dual carriageways with traffic. And if you think otherwise, you're daft as well (as if that wasn't already apparent).