Denary

'Militant' Cyclist 🪖🚲. Nerd😎. Software Dev🧰. Cloud Engineer☁️.
(Not those clouds you conspiracy nut!)

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@MikeyCycling All these anti cycling nut jobs be like...

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@RichardWellings I agree that no corporation should have special privileges. Unfortunately I don't agree with your core premise re traffic.

Companies place offices/manufacturing dependent on the resources (skills/supplies/demand), not congestion. Nothing you've suggested alleviates the issue.

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@RichardWellings I don't think most people trust private entities especially large corporations to do the right thing. We have a myriad of examples of cover-ups.

Nor is it a good idea to allow them to bulldoze their way to doing what they want because they can out pay any group of people.

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@RichardWellings Yes, because historically allowing companies to put manufacturing plants next to schools has worked out great...

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@RichardWellings Netherlands has their own issue being sat atop peatland.
What is your answer for dense urban areas which are already clogged with traffic? Even if we roll back all active travel infrastructure it will force more people back into cars and clog up the system even more.

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@DailyMail Both were entering the junction at the same time. Neither had automatic priority.

Yet entering a junction with parked cars obstructing your view and immediately overtaking a cyclist? Then getting pissy because you were called out?
Advanced driving? Give me a break.

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@ClareNeely34 @willnorman So please clarify what pro-cycling measures you, John and Vincent have proposed?

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@Beardyface4 @TheMrLoophole 1. We do it too late but we do have significant projects.
2. Politicians will never be honest. They're politicians.
3. 1 central pot or 30 mini pots doesn't solve the issues plaguing how the money is spent.

https://t.co/GVonCgvQ9D

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@Beardyface4 @TheMrLoophole Most people who call it road tax want to say roads are funded by VED paying drivers. If you don't fall into that category that's fine.

Centralised pots allows you to make significant infrastructure investments to make things cheaper in the long term.. If we did that in the UK..

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@Beardyface4 @TheMrLoophole Great we agree then.
VED doesn't fund the roads. 👍

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@Beardyface4 @TheMrLoophole They didn't just rename it though. yes?
The funds go into a central pot to fund EVERYTHING.

Local roads are funded by Council tax and Government grants.

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@DaveAirCEO @Beardyface4 @TheMrLoophole Cry more please.

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@but_cyclists It's not "road tax" it's Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) and since 1937 it's gone into a pot with almost everything else.

Local roads are funded by Council tax & Gov grants, motorways by highways agency using the consolidated fund.

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@Beardyface4 @TheMrLoophole What does VED stand for?

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@JohnJohnStewart If we worked completely through consensus we wouldn't have seatbelts. Yet that single law has saved millions of lives.

Feel free to call it elitism but policy should prioritise everyone's safety.

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@EricsRambles The situation is horrible and the cyclist who crossed the lane without checking is totally in the wrong.
But the fact it had a motor and battery had nothing to do with the incident.

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@DavidHu05137188 @RichardWellings He's just a status quo warrior and a Libertarian wanting de-regulation and small governments.
He'll never support cycle lanes or increased public infrastructure but I don't think of him as anti-cyclist. Just pro cars.

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@boblister_poole 262,000 miles of roads in Britain. Most of which has zero cycling infrastructure.
yet you're crying when .3 miles of side road gets converted to cyclist priority....

Take a chill pill. Have a nap.

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@BBCLondonNews @MikeyCycling People forget that our policing has a guiding philosophy called the Peelian principals.

Yes. Of course it is.