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Tlatet: Improving road safety for pedestrians and cyclists in Great Britain
Bristol Traffic: BBC gets on message: bicycles are the problem
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Yes, not a mention of children's safety but a rant about Lycra louts http://is.gd/4xmah Tell me again why we should respect journalists? 30 days ago |
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RT @lyndenbarber Article abt Lycra louts-idiot cyclists who speed down the footpath.Pity it's in Daily Mail- http://bit.ly/3Qzi2i 10/22/2009 |
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hehe! RT @mrbaldi re War on cyclists in Daily Mail (again) http://bit.ly/EeHdq Usual bollocks, all cyclists are psycho, drivers are saints 10/22/2009 |
Improving road safety for pedestrians and cyclists in Great Britain
Tlatet —
... It is more fun to read the whole thing, rather wasting effort on the bizarre and inaccurate press reporting from the usual organs. Especially the transcript of the oral evidence where MPs quiz the Permanent Secretary, and Head of the Road User Safety Division from the Department for Transport, which reads a bit like a rancid blog. ...
BBC gets on message: bicycles are the problem
Bristol Traffic —
... We got the article out the Daily Mail, that was to be expected -MPs call for laws against bicycles, but since the Jan Moir article on Stephen Gately exposed the paper as being a relic of the 1930s, and something to ridicule, we needed a more mainstream channel. We wanted to appear on question time, but apparently the BBC had already booked their speaker, so it had to be a bit of journalism instead. Which had us worried. Journalism. That means research, insight and writing. How would the BBC report this? Would they read the report and come down ...
Can we share the road in London?
London Cyclist Blog —
... provided a link to the Sorry Mate I didn’t See You (SMIDSY) database for cyclists to report bad drivers.
Subsequently the hashtag #LDNcyclist was setup and I wanted to go through some of the responses to see what people thought about London’s Cyclists. The whole “us” and “them” argument is not new and has been debated all over the world. As a bit of brief background this is where it stands:
Some newspapers have called London Cyclists Lycra Louts to which there was sever denouncement in other newspapers ...
Austin bids to boost cyclist and motorist harmony
BikeBiz —
... sharrows The city of Austin, Texas has installed experimental sharrows in an attempt to create more harmony between motorists and cyclists in the city, said a Kvue report . The experiment comes while the UK debates how cyclists, motorists and pedestrians are interacting on roads (and pavements). The CTC is seeking to dispel the myths of the danger cyclists pose to pedestrians, as is the London Cycle Campaign , following stories from some quarters of the press on the recent report from the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
