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The debate started .. I think .., with this letter
BN wrote:
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Cyclists need more protection
7:10am Wednesday 15th July 2009
WHY do cyclists on the continent enjoy so much more respect and safety than cyclists in the UK? Could it be that law-breaking drivers here enjoy so much more freedom? Isn’t it a fact that drivers here can abuse and intimidate and, indeed, kill cyclists and get away with it?
Which cyclist hasn’t heard the rant: “You shouldn’t be on the road, you don’t pay tax and insurance?”
And aren’t there even drivers preaching: “If a cyclist isn’t in a cycle lane they’re fair game?” The recent Manchester to Blackpool charity cycle ride saw some 8,500 cyclists raising money for good causes, not least for Manchester’s cancer hospital, The Christie.
Did drivers show their two-wheeled brethren respect? Not at all. Virtually all had a tale of abuse or near miss to tell — horns blasting, excessive speed, mobile phone distraction.
Last week, eight British soldiers were reported killed in Afghanistan: “One hellish 24-hours, a terrible tragedy”. What, then, of the “hellish 24-hours in Britain? — eight terrible tragedies on our roads every single day.
Our soldiers are said to be under resourced, they need better equipment.
Aren’t British cyclists “under resourced” — they need tougher penalties for drivers who abuse, intimidate, injure and kill.
If people can’t get on a bicycle to raise money for cancer and reduce their carbon footprint for fear of inhospitable drivers, who churn out huge amounts of carcinogens and CO 2, then where does that leave humankind?
For tougher penalties for drivers, log onto http:/petitions.number10.gov.uk /mobilemenaceban/ Allan Ramsay Radcliffe Moor Road Radcliffe
Helll Allan .. we do such rides and never have experienced such to date. OK .. so we do most abroad .. our next one planned in High Swiss Alps and me and IG are seriously in training. My wife will provide back up and food for us and she will do a small stretch on her bike if she feels fit enough to do so
this time around.
But in all the charity rides we've done to date .. and w've done a fair few as a family unit in full force..
of ALL of us,, we've not experienced such.. but then we ride to the rules /.. COAST and Bikeabilty ones ... which encapsulate the Highway Code and the LAW.
Maybe that's why we have clean driving licences.. safety led records of zero incident and the ones suffered were non faults on the parts of the few unlucky ones by chance or just simply unlucky fate here.
By the way .. lok at Wildy's links of the past. Continent is no "cyclotopia". Do not delude selves here.