Apparently, we hold up ambulances

[Floating Bombus]

Nah, Archant's home papers are still regurgitating the "empty cycle lanes" fallacy.

Archant?

Yeah, don't worry, they'll feed food to the cars as biodiesel in preference to using it for people or bicycles.

Unfortunately, yes, in the medium term at least they will, as long as there's more money in it.

 

[mjr]

Archant?

Publisher of the New European and many regional newspapers including the Weston and Somerset Mercury, a competitor of Trinity Mirror who publish the Bristol Pest.

 

[Floating Bombus]

Covers all the bases... (!)

 

[roadrash]

Strange, my better half is an ambulance driver and has never complained about cyclists holding her up.

so is my son , when I asked him about the article , his response was.... what a load of bo!!ocks

 

[HLaB]

Without reading the link (comments in a news paper are usually from depressing trolls), at best if we didn't cycle, we'd be in cars adding a larger block to congestion and actually holding up ambulances and at worst more of us would be unhealthy and place an excess demand on ambulances

 

[ufkacbln]

Without reading the link (comments in a news paper are usually from depressing trolls), at best if we didn't cycle, we'd be in cars adding a larger block to congestion and actually holding up ambulances and at worst more of us would be unhealthy and place an excess demand on ambulances

Yebbut....

Cars blocking the ambulance is not a problem.... obvious innit

 

[Drago]

If car drivers stopped slaughtering people we wouldn't need so many ambulance journeys. Its the cyclists fault all the road crash victims are dying.

 

[KnackeredBike]

There is a busy dual carriageway near me with almost no cyclists but I often see ambulances struggling to make their way through the queues. Presumably paramedics will also be calling for cars to be banned from busy roads at peak times - they should be able to get through without any problems with all the cars out the way.

As an aside, working in a hospital A&E staff seem to have a real downer on cyclists, if a cyclist (or motorcyclist) comes in injured it must be their fault or they were drunk but if a car driver comes in it must be some tragic accident.

 

[subaqua]

There is a busy dual carriageway near me with almost no cyclists but I often see ambulances struggling to make their way through the queues. Presumably paramedics will also be calling for cars to be banned from busy roads at peak times - they should be able to get through without any problems with all the cars out the way.

As an aside, working in a hospital A&E staff seem to have a real downer on cyclists, if a cyclist (or motorcyclist) comes in injured it must be their fault or they were drunk but if a car driver comes in it must be some tragic accident.

Yeah I got that impression when I got offed last year

 

[Floating Bombus]

Seems to vary. I've heard of someone getting criticism from A&E for not wearing a helmet when he was being treated for an elbow injury but when I got offed last summer and ended up in A&E (nothing serious), neither paramedic nor anyone in A&E made any negative comments at all. Nor did the driver who collided with me or who I collided with (50/50).

 

[ianrauk]

Without reading the link (comments in a news paper are usually from depressing trolls), at best if we didn't cycle, we'd be in cars adding a larger block to congestion and actually holding up ambulances and at worst more of us would be unhealthy and place an excess demand on ambulances

Well this is what I don't get. Some moton's want us off the road, and if we did, en masse, then it would be far worse out there for congestion then it already is. I'm at a loss at their thinking.

 

[summerdays]

Well this is what I don't get. Some moton's want us off the road, and if we did, en masse, then it would be far worse out there for congestion then it already is. I'm at a loss at their thinking.

They only ever think about the fact you are in their way at that moment! Perhaps holding them up from passing through a narrow double parked road. The fact that they can't get past because of the line of either stationary or moving vehicles to the side goes unnoticed!

 

[Simontm]

Seems to vary. I've heard of someone getting criticism from A&E for not wearing a helmet when he was being treated for an elbow injury but when I got offed last summer and ended up in A&E (nothing serious), neither paramedic nor anyone in A&E made any negative comments at all. Nor did the driver who collided with me or who I collided with (50/50).

When I ended up at Mary's in the Trauma unit last year, the senior registrar asked if I was wearing a helmet. When I said yes, he said good and pointed to the next cubicle where there was another patient in an induced coma, sayin:'He didn't"

 

[Drago]

I don't take self righteous advice from any one lower ranking than consultant.

 

[ufkacbln]

I don't take self righteous advice from any one lower ranking than consultant.

Consultant - Someone who knows more and more about less and less