Cyclists! A rant.

Are like an embolism clogging the roads round here and are just as dangerous to other road and path users. I had angry waves from a cyclist because I didn't overtake him when he's kindly pulled over to let me past, there were two cars coming in the opposite direction on a single track road. There are just as many cyclists on pavements as there are on the roads riding far to fast for the numbers of people using the path. They ignore road signs and go the wrong way down a one way street, cross red lights, have no way of inidicating where they're going. The ride around the park at top speed scattering children, adults and dogs. The selfish arrogance of the people seem to know no bounds, do they not realise that people actually live in the countryside and have no choice but to drive on single track roads? So many people and animals have been hurt round here and it gets worse every year. Does nobody even have a bell anymore? 

Why should they be able to perpetrate every sort of stupidity under the sun and get away with it? Why should it always be my fault if I'm driving and their not paying attention? I'd like to see cyclists have to have some sort of MOT and public liability insurance, vets bills for a horse are astronomical and a horse could quite easily kill a cyclist, so why do they think it's OK to go speeding past horses? Many seem to have no or poor lights too. Grrr Arrgh.

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  • A small rant of my own... m

    A trip the the Netherlands might show how it can be most efficaciously be done?. Please be aware the bikes were there on life's byways long before the cars arrived, and no accommodation was made for them for many decades. now we see bike lanes and dedicated tracks for them apart from the car traffic, and in some cities "Slow lanes."

    Instead of a rant about the bikes, how about solution oriented ideas for accommodating everyone. After all, not all us us want to drive. Some of us like to bike and to feel entitled to a lane on the road in life's journey. We often view cars as clueless bullies, spewing toxins in their wake.

    So have a care! Hate speech leads to action.

    Steady on, or the next time your feeling cocky, encouraged by such posts as this, to bully some, small, in-MY-way, bike or pedestrian remember that anger and hate can and DO maim and kill.

    A person may be biking to a job interview that took months to get, only to be peevishly splashed by some driver just for a laugh. Or, hit head on, paralyzed for life.

    Sitting in a misanthropic bubble that is a person in a car, you are shielded from the vicissitudes of weather, birdsong and fresh air and time to think.

    It is no wonder people are so divorced from reality. and struggle with empathy for others.

    Infrastructure people!! Now. Otherwise, your just blaming the victim (once again) whose carbon foot print, BYT is 0.

    A future is built on what happens NOW. 

    We are long over due for a paradigm shift.

    END OIL NOW

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  • A small rant of my own... m

    A trip the the Netherlands might show how it can be most efficaciously be done?. Please be aware the bikes were there on life's byways long before the cars arrived, and no accommodation was made for them for many decades. now we see bike lanes and dedicated tracks for them apart from the car traffic, and in some cities "Slow lanes."

    Instead of a rant about the bikes, how about solution oriented ideas for accommodating everyone. After all, not all us us want to drive. Some of us like to bike and to feel entitled to a lane on the road in life's journey. We often view cars as clueless bullies, spewing toxins in their wake.

    So have a care! Hate speech leads to action.

    Steady on, or the next time your feeling cocky, encouraged by such posts as this, to bully some, small, in-MY-way, bike or pedestrian remember that anger and hate can and DO maim and kill.

    A person may be biking to a job interview that took months to get, only to be peevishly splashed by some driver just for a laugh. Or, hit head on, paralyzed for life.

    Sitting in a misanthropic bubble that is a person in a car, you are shielded from the vicissitudes of weather, birdsong and fresh air and time to think.

    It is no wonder people are so divorced from reality. and struggle with empathy for others.

    Infrastructure people!! Now. Otherwise, your just blaming the victim (once again) whose carbon foot print, BYT is 0.

    A future is built on what happens NOW. 

    We are long over due for a paradigm shift.

    END OIL NOW

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