Here we go again...they don't pay road tax,they should be made to take a test blah blah blah!

[Accy cyclist]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5222189/Dangerous-cycling-crime-say-majority-drivers.html
Drivers also think cyclists should have to pass a test and pay road tax

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Sorry if it's been posted before. As i think about why my mileage has been so low this year i think about the f..wits behind the wheel who put me off cycling and how they'll read this and think it's acceptable to be even more of a f..kwit now, as the DM has made it official that cyclists are bad and need punishment!
Even "power walking" is dangerous if you use the roads. There i was last Thursday walking along,weighing up what that idiot behind the wheel is about to do then acting accordingly. Only for the tool to cut right across my path without indicating to let me know he was turning, or the worst one when the car on my right stopped at the zebra crossing to let me cross,then as i made eye contact with the driver on my left he just drove right across my path while i was half way across the zebra! DM,do you bother about these idiots i ask?!

 

[Slick]

Click bait, or they wouldn't give the cyclists the last word.

Roger Geffen, policy director at Cycling UK, said: ‘Cycling UK strongly supports responsible behaviour by all road users and is very concerned about drastic cuts to roads policing in recent years.

‘However, if we want grandparents and grandchildren alike to be able to cycle safely and normally for day-to-day journeys, it makes no sense to impose unnecessary new rules and costs on would-be cyclists, particularly children.

‘The top priority must be to create safe, cycle-friendly streets and junctions, while strengthening the enforcement of our existing traffic rules, rather than adding new ones.’

There's a number who won't hit the link.

 

[hoopdriver]

Daily Mail - consider the source...

 

[screenman]

The Daily Mail is often having a dig at cyclist yet cyclist contimue to buy the paper, odd that.

 

[Globalti]

Accy, you do live in a town with a high number of drivers who don't think the law applies to them. We have the same problem here in Blackburn, which is one reason why we can't wait to move away.

 

[Sandra6]

As a cyclist I want all motorists to pay road tax.

 

[gavroche]

As a cyclist, motorist, pedestrian, father, grandfather, husband and a man, I just ignore all those newspaper selling remarks and just carry on with my life.

 

[ianrauk]

As what others said, click bait. Please do not give the Daily Heil the satisfaction of your click.

 

[Profpointy]

As what others said, click bait. Please do not give the Daily Heil the satisfaction of your click.

and remember each time you click you are quite literally giving them money

 

[steveindenmark]

Its been looked at before and would be too expensive to implement and police.

 

[winjim]

What would be?

Censoring the Daily Mail. It would cost the government dearly.

 

[vickster]

Censoring the Daily Mail. It would cost the government dearly.

@Accy cyclist could just stop reading it though

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

And to have passed their driving test

700,000 vehicles on road unlawfully not paying tax
800,000 drivers on road without a licence
1,000,000 drivers on the road with no insurance
1/3 of motorists have driven a car without an MOT

 

[Accy cyclist]

@Accy cyclist could just stop reading it though

Yes but it isn't the DM that came up with this crap. They just report it. If the DM stopped reporting stuff like this it wouldn't make the hatred of cyclists go away.

 

[Profpointy]

Yes but it isn't the DM that came up with this crap. They just report it. If the DM stopped reporting stuff like this it wouldn't make the hatred of cyclists go away.

Don't think I agree. The daily mail deliberately create hatred in order to stir up righteous indignation, and hence paper sales, or website hits from their readers. They stir up racial hatred as well for the same reason. And if cyclists are (deliberately) knocked off their bikes and a few "foreigners" beaten up or murdered, well so be it, maybe even something they'd tacitly support. It isn't a Godwin to remind everyone that the Daily Mail supported Hitler before the war.