Nuxx:3cb23e85-59d1-4118-a2b5-93e1ab2f2897@r36g2000vbr.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!r36g2000vbr.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3cb23e85-59d1-4118-a2b5-93e1ab2f2897@r36g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.driving,uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Cycle lane on roundabout - who has priority? Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:25:32 -0700 (PDT) References: <8MWdncMmBO9qOUTUnZ2dnUVZ8r6WnZ2d@posted.plusnet>  <2jkCl.22712$Lv4.6234@newsfe30.ams2> <73u2b8F10rh3oU1@mid.individual.net> <29a888b4-7f05-4576-9469-ed0d8748cb4e@n20g2000vba.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 23 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.147 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1239128733 3059 127.0.0.1 (7 Apr 2009 18:25:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r36g2000vbr.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.147; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2706 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:693979

On Apr 6, 2:14=A0pm, "Just zis Guy, you know?"  wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:06:06 -0700 (PDT), Nkosi >  said in > <29a888b4-7f05-4576-9469-ed0d8748c...@n20g2000vba.googlegroups.com>: > > >Possibly, if he (she) paid road tax for their bicycle, insured it and > >themselves in the case of an accident, passed both a theoretical test > >and a practical test to determine if they were capable of riding the > >bicycle on the open road then yes they could have the same rights as > >other road users, until then since they do none of the above they > >should have no rights whatsoever. > > In the UK the right to use the road is close to unrestricted for the > least trained, least tested, least insured group (pedestrians), and > such things as insurance and testing are applied to road users in > some kind of proportion to the danger and damage they cause. =A0If you > want to reverse this, as it appears you do, then you'll need to > start lobbying your MP rather than trolling newsgroups.

Yep. Once again the owner of urc makes it clear that "trolling" (disagreeing with him) will not be tolerated, and quite right too.