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Cyclists: Safe To Ignore Completely

Cyclists: Safe To Ignore Completely

I’ve been enjoying the articulate & well reasoned arguments against Vehicular Cycling that’ve been put up recently by Freewheeler, David Hembrow, and Crossrider, amongst others. These have all got me thinking, about the flawed logic that seems to be the received wisdom of “Cyclists’ (with a capital “C”) groups” in the UK. As freewheeler puts it, the kind...
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Pickles and Hammond to end the war on motorists

Pickles and Hammond to end the war on motorists

This has got me shouting at my monitor in disbelief. Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said: “This is a key step in ending the war on the motorist. For years politicians peddled the pessimistic, outdated attitude that they could only cut carbon emissions by forcing people out of their cars. “But this Government recognises that cars are...
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