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Originally Posted by Taf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40459482
Cycle lanes in Cardiff are "underused by commuters" but are mainly used for leisure cycling. And they are throwing money we don't have at this "problem".
Hundreds of spaces for commuters to store their bikes during the working day (at a price of course) are planned, but cyclists say the spaces will be too far from their workplace. So they won't use them.
Hire cycles were tried, and failed miserably at great cost to tax payers.
Then they opened bus lanes to bikes, so that now means gridlock when a 5mph cyclist holds up 30mph buses. So what do the buses do? They leave the bus lanes and block the other lanes every time they stop.
Parking fees were increased to push commuters onto buses. Then up went the bus fares.
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You're just a lazy git
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Originally Posted by Paul M
The UK simply doesnt have the weather to make cycling to work all the while something people would do.
Who wants to be out on a bike, travelling to work, in the freezing snow & ice, or pooring rain.
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So are you
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Cycling may be beneficial to health (as long as your lungs don't get damaged by the fumes and you don't collide with a motorised vehicle) but frankly, only a minority of the population risk life and limb in this way and it clearly has done very little to ease traffic congestion.
Yes, this is obvious to those of us living in the real world.
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As obvious, say, as 'minority participation doing little to ease traffic congestion'? We need more bikes, more bike lanes and less cars and less huge, empty bendy buses
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