Met Commissioner is too rich to cycle, besides, it's not safe

[fossyant]

Plonker.

Yup, I can drive every day, do I, no chance. I did 4 days last week driving and only got to Friday before the bike came out, only because of 'wife power' did I let it get that far, so one day riding after an operation and first week back at work. Second week back at work, I rode every day and knocked out 120 miles. If I took the direct route, it would have been 75. I am a bad boy.

 

[Frood42]

Article in the Telegraph on Chris Boardman's appeal for lorry ban at rush hour in London. Sounds reasonable to me, but if you want to get angry, read some of the comments from the tunnel visioned motoring fraternity. Depressing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/acti...ardman-ban-HGVs-from-our-rush-hour-roads.html

Even when presented with clear statistics
.

 

[Twelve Spokes]

I could drive every day,if I had a car.

 

[RedRider]

Article in the Telegraph on Chris Boardman's appeal for lorry ban at rush hour in London. Sounds reasonable to me, but if you want to get angry, read some of the comments from the tunnel visioned motoring fraternity. Depressing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/acti...ardman-ban-HGVs-from-our-rush-hour-roads.html

Chris Boardman's the best high profile cycling advocate around IMO. Here he is a couple of years ago. Fast
forward to around 2:15):


Top man.

 

[snorri]

Chris Boardman's the best high profile cycling advocate around IMO. Here he is a couple of years ago. Fast
forward to around 2:15):.

Errrr...did you remember to add the link?

Edit, sorry, my mistake.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Errrr...did you remember to add the link?

I haven't got the link but what he says in the Telegraph article seems spot on to me. And I agree that he's perhaps the best UK ''cyclists' cyclist'' we could have as an advocate.

 

[RedRider]

Errrr...did you remember to add the link?

Oops no. Fast forward to 2.15...

 

[Twelve Spokes]

"Many motorists are also cyclists and vice versa."

 

[spen666]

My issue about this is, imagine instead that the word cyclist was replaced by female -ie he was saying the streets are not safe ofr females so they should not use the streets

It would not be acceptable, but apparently it is where the group are cyclists

 

[qigong chimp]

You wonder - or at least I do - how Terry Fukwits like this rise to positions of eminence, how they're selected.
"Can you guarantee the panel, Mr Hogan-Howe, that you're a fecking gert fossilised dinosaur's bell-end?"
"Assuredly."
"Thankyou, when can you start?"