Mel flamed away:
>i My cycling to work will help save the world! I will not use fossil
>fuels BUT I will slow down every motorist on the road behind me,
>thus forcing said responsible, licensed, tax-paying, drivers into
>using their vehicles in the least efficient mode (low gears, high
>emissions, etc etc) and thereby actually causing more pollution then
>if they had taken their cars to work.
This is only true if you live in a society that doesn't care for the
cyclists. They should not be driven on road, for the mentioned reason and
for the risks that it would put the people who do use their bikes. You
should complain on the people in charge for not making good alternatives
for the cyclists.
>Then at traffic lights, I will become a wheeled pedestrian and either
>jump tthrough the lights at red, or use the pedestrian controlled
>crossing whilst still on my bike.
Atleast here you aren't a pedestrian when you are still on the bike.
>Sorry Matey, cyclists get no sympathy from me. When they start to pay
>a road tax like the rest of us, AND even more important, carry a
>number plate that will identify them, then I'll give them a chance.
I don't want to get into a tax argument here, but the bikes doesn't wear
the streets nearly as close as cars do. But that isn't what the "road tax"
is for anyway.
>You started me! The next worst are cycling clubs. Twenty-four of
>them, cycling in groups of four, all in line abreast.
I have never seen one of these, people who tend to walk and take up the
entire road is however a problem I can recognize so I understand your
frustration.
//Bernie
