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Old February 5th 08, 04:30 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling, uk.transport.london, uk.rec.driving
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Default Bus Lanes: Proof Of What We All Knew

mate, you are bordering on psychotic. I'm not called yggems anywhere,
where on earth did that come from?

That's a long post nuxxx but I'm still at a loss as to what I've
actually supposed to have done. If you mean speed cameras then saying
supporting them is "anti motorist" is daft, many drivers support them
and capable drivers have nothing to worry about.

Head of Road Safety at the AA Andrew Howard
"80% of motorists support speed cameras"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1157453.stm

So 80% of drivers AND the AA are anti-motorist!


Blimey!!

"Anyone who thinks that this government
isn't even slightly anti-car, and therefore hasn't implemented or
expanded any anti-car measures, is potty. "


Well, that's better, at last something concrete.

This government has cravenly capitulated to the motoring lobby, of
which you and those fake coppers on Safespeeding form an unpleasant
sub strata.

From conceding that safety cameras must be painted yellow to scrapping
the fuel duty lobby and pressing ahead with pointless, useless new
road schemes the rot that Prescott started has firmly settled in.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...icle410431.ece


The Safer Streets Coalition, made up of 29 organisations, including
Age Concern, the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB), the
Institution of Civil Engineers and the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Accidents, accused the Government of pandering to the
motoring lobby.

The Bill proposes to reduce the number of points from three to two for
exceeding the limit by only a few miles an hour.

End quote.

Is your stock rsponse to appeals from blind people or the elderly that
they must be "anti-motorist"?

Genuine question.

And yes, you did make some very strange comments, in your very first
post"

" A clue lies in the report's findings about the attitudes of other
road users to the idea of motorcycles in bus lanes, with almost half
the surveyed pedestrians and a large proportion of cyclists
expressing
negative views (although only 40 of 800 cyclists [11 of which were
Spindrift, who isn't really a cyclist at all] "



Barmy.