Nuxx:4ae8e143-4a0d-426f-9bf3-9134fe4771e9@d70g2000hsb.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!d70g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4ae8e143-4a0d-426f-9bf3-9134fe4771e9@d70g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling, uk.transport.london, uk.rec.driving Subject: Re: Bus Lanes: Proof Of What We All Knew Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:12:47 -0800 (PST) References: <3282357c-d7aa-4691-a331-97561dba1306@1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com> <60kfogF1qvfq6U1@mid.individual.net>  <47a5dec0$0$8424$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> Lines: 26 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.211.17.39 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1202076768 19109 127.0.0.1 (3 Feb 2008 22:12:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 22:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d70g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.211.17.39; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2577 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:638428

On Feb 3, 3:33 pm, Nick  wrote: > Nuxx Bar wrote: > > On Feb 3, 12:19 am, "Pete Biggs" > >  wrote: > >> Personally, I wouldn't mind if motorcyclists were allowed to use bus lanes. > >> Motorcyclists rarely cause me any bother, and I'd rather more people used > >> motorbikes rather than cars. > > >> But I don't believe any *sensible* motorcyclist need be at more risk if they > >> do not use bus lanes. > > >> Hard luck. It's not my fault, so don't be rude to me please (by posting > >> offensive messages aimed at *all* cyclists). No one surveyed me. > > > As above, I wasn't trying to be rude to reasonable cyclists, and I > > tried to make that clear. I apologise if I didn't. Would you not > > agree with me that the militant cyclists who hate all other forms of > > private transport (and care about that more than saving lives) are > > tarnishing the reputation of you and other reasonable cyclists? > > Divide and rule, eh? > > I think militant cyclist make drivers more aware of cyclists which makes > us all safer.

I don't think they make anyone safer.