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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!postnews.google.com!r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <7def8fb2-8bf6-4865-8bc2-177a80628e32@r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Cyclist killed Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:58:26 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 33 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300924706 11446 127.0.0.1 (23 Mar 2011 23:58:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:58:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2870 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:803882

On Mar 23, 5:03=A0pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > Yet another London cyclist has been killed by a skip driver.http://www.lo= ndon-se1.co.uk/news/view/5169 > > I expect the TfL railings are also partly to blame.

Of course, if that fucking stupid, completely unnecessary 24/7 bus lane wasn't there all the way along Jamaica Road (or was 0700-1000 then 1600-1900), and the traffic signals weren't timed to make everyone stop at every set, then the traffic wouldn't have been bunched up at the junction and the lorry driver wouldn't have been addled by the stress caused by the aforementioned nonsense. Anti- motorist measures claim another victim, and this time it wasn't some "scumbag" driver, it was an "innocent" cyclist. Such a tragic waste of a poor young lad's life. When will everyone realise just how much damage this deliberate antagonism of the motorist is doing on our roads?

Tom, do you ever drive down Jamaica Road? If so then tell me that there isn't a deliberate conspiracy there to frustrate motorists. That disgraceful bus lane (on both sides) turns what would be a useful dual carriageway into something that's worse than a 2-lane single carriageway (because you can't even overtake). The endless, maliciously-phased traffic lights complete the hatchet job on what is an A-road after all, making it probably *the* most frustrating road in the area. This deliberate, spiteful congestion-causing is bad enough in terms of the economy and pollution, but now we've seen that it also causes serious safety problems. No-one who has a conscience should advocate it in their right mind.

Time for certain people's attitudes to change.

