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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!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news2.euro.net!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e28203b$0$2531$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: London Assembly rejects Boris Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:48:59 +0100 References:  <4e27181c$0$2502$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk>  <4qWdna1GXIq31LrTnZ2dnUVZ8smdnZ2d@bt.com>  Lines: 36 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: dc51a47c.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=heBlDJ`Alie87S;[P`ZWfhnok4Z\ Adam Lea  considered Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:31:42 > +0100 the perfect time to write: > >> On 20/07/11 22:24, Phil W Lee wrote: >>> Nuxx Bar considered Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:02:00 >>> +0100 the perfect time to write: >>> >>>> On 20/07/2011 16:36, Bertie Wooster wrote: >>>>> The London Assembly today rejected Boris' plans to increase the speed >>>>> limit over Blackfrias' Bridge from 20mph to 30mph. >>>>> http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5431 >>>> >>>> FFS! It's *not* an "increase"! >>> >>> It is currently 20mph. >>> Boris is trying to raise it to 30mph. >>> In what alternative universe is that not an increase? >> >> It was 30 mph in the past and was reduced to 20 mph, in which case the >> change would be a restoration? > > If you want to bring history into it, the original limit on the > present Blackfriars Bridge was 2mph, which persisted for 27 years, > then either 12 or 14 mph for 7 years and 20mph for another 27 years. > So maybe the nuxxious one is right, and we should return the bridge to > it's original speed limit. > > Happy with 2mph?

The latest permanent speed limit is 30mph. You and others are being deliberately obtuse (which I suppose makes a change from simply obtuse).

I rather fancy that you'd react differently if they closed a path to cyclists for roadworks, then refused to reopen it when finished, and claimed that they weren't changing anything.