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http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ban-bicycles/

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to to ban the sale and use of bicycles.

If bicycles were invented now, no sane government would allow them to be used. Unprotected bodies, travelling at speed on a 2-wheeled vehicle which can be upset by a wet manhole - any official would reject this idea out of hand. The only reason we allow bicycles is that they have been around for more than a century and we have all got used to them.

Bicycles are dangerous to all road users, are frequently ridden recklessly, and cause a disproportionate number of deaths and serious injuries. Their removal would benefit everyone."

Someone apart from me appears to be laughing at the car-hating trolls, whose dogma is frequently along these lines:

"If cars were invented now, no sane government would allow them to be used. A ton of steel on 4 wheels travelling at speed in the same roadspace as unprotected bodies - any official would reject this idea out of hand. The only reason we allow cars is that they have been around for more than a century and we have all got used to them.

Cars are dangerous to all road users, are frequently driven recklessly, and cause a disproportionate number of deaths and serious injuries. Their removal would benefit everyone."

Some drivers are dangerous; most are not. Some cyclists are dangerous; most are not. The trolls, if they were interested in safety, would have a go at the dangerous elements of both modes of transport. Instead, they have a go at *all* drivers (or rather those who speed, which is...all of them), and *no* cyclists. The trolls aren't interested in safety at all; they're merely interested in discouraging the use of powered private transport for political reasons, and pathetically dressing it up as safety.

Spindrift's recent "Sign the petition to keep motorcycles out of bus lanes [even though it's safer when they're allowed to use them]" thread is yet more proof of the trolls' motives: prejudice against powered private transport eclipses safety. The bastard trolls therefore have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS, and Spindrift is covered with it. We all know really that Spindrift would campaign to keep motorcycles out of bus lanes whatever the safety figures said. He WANTS road users to DIE. Yet the trolls here support and idolise him. Sick, twisted fucks, the lot of them. If God existed, there's no way that He would allow such disgustingly hateful, foul, murderous cunts to be born. They would rather have 50 deaths with motorcycles prohibited from bus lanes than 30 deaths with them allowed. They would rather have 3500 deaths a year with speed cameras than <2500 deaths a year without them. Utter, utter shits. So unbelievably evil and callous. Every 8 hours, someone dies because of speed cameras and the trolls are PLEASED. HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME, KILLER TROLLS.