"thaksin" wrote in message
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neverwas wrote:
It seems reasonable to me. Though if they restrict it to cyclists,
the usual whinging will come from the motoring lobby who get ****ed
off when they don't have equal rights to cyclists.

The answer is, get a bike. And STFU :-)

And the other part of that answer is for pedestrians to be allowed by law
to carry golfing umbrellas, stout walking sticks etc and to insert them
in the spokes of the wheels of cyclists who jump the lights, ride on
pavements etc. After all, the cyclists in question can't possibly
believe that it would do them any harm as they make clear they believe
they are a superior race.

It'd do wonders for the economy as well: just think of all those job
vacancies created!

I suggested something similar a few months ago, and the whinging *******s
in URC insisted that I was being 'disproportionate'. Odd, innit, that this
disproportion thing only applies to car drivers exposing cyclists to harm,
and not to cyclists exposing pedestrians to the same

You have a good point. The only thing that lets that idea down in that the
number of peds killed by cyclists is very very few. Not that I am excusing
the cyclists, its just very rare. But the number of cyclists killed by
traffic is a lot higher. Hence Boris's idea to reduce cyclist casualties.