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Not at all. I'm a regular user. See a broad range of lime/boris/forest bike users. My general apathy is towards the anti active travel narrative. Why bother answering when something is convenient- a response will only get disbelief on here.

Because having a Blue Badge doesn't mean you can park wherever you like whenever you like. There are still timing & location restrictions etc.

Or more likely for this forum a Bladerunners t-shirt, catapults and a subscription to Together.

So the Highway Code is now also incorrect?

I found the story of Joseph and Mary getting a ticket for parking their donkey on the double yellows of the dusty road truly a parable for our times. Christmas victims of socialism apparently.

The classic combo of Ediz (the unnamed bus driver) and his pal Andrew Ellison

Wow, thats all your tropes in one post

Islabikes hasn't gone under. They've decided to not sell to a new buyer and to retire having revolutionised bikes for kids. They cite the bad financial management of the economy by the tory government as a factor but were a highly successful company operating in profit. i mean that's in their press release on their decision but rockets clearly knows better. The Cartlon Reid article linked to ends: "Industry analysts believe 2023 will be a trough year, with sales recovering through 2024 and beyond and at a more sustainable level than the heights of the Covid bike boom." Van Moof was taken over by tech bros who didn't understand bikes and overinflated its market value. Its just been bought from liquidators and will be relaunched. halfords is now Mike Ashley who is asset stripping physical sites and moving to predominantly online only sales

Vincent Stops is really a poor statistician isnt he. For those that don't know him - he was removed from his transport role at a council and fundamentally doesn't believe in the safety of any segregated cycling routes. All his analysis is based on that premise. Luckily the dft National Travel Attitudes study shows that the public don't agree with him. 64% sampled saying that they support the creation of dedicated cycle lanes in their local area even if this means less road space for cars. Rockets - you have google. Do you want to tell is what proportion of the roads budget goes towards cycling infrastructure?

Your trips are not limited. You have 100 free passes and then pay for others (much like the congestion charge) you can use alternative including the ring road for free its only in Cowley & east oxford

Penguin's interpretation of the Oxford rules is wrong. They've made this misinterpretation several times. An Exeter MP is now getting death threats over the small number of LTNs being piloted there, even with better communication about how they work. The police arrested someone for the threats.

Yougov polling from yesterday Con: 24% (-3% following the roll back on environmental pledges) Lab: 45% LD: 11% reform: 8% green: 7% SNP: 3% it's going to have to be a big dead cat. Cones Hotline 2.0

Except that they massively lost the Senedd no confidence vote against the changes last night.

Man who benefits from market forces doesn't like it when market forces affect him. He's a landlord, he doesnt make, or produce anything. He buys things using credit (unavailable to others) and then restricts supply to increase profit. Am i right to assume that your post was a polemic, otherwise you're almost both siding an argument for feudalism.

Lordship Lane in 1860

So many non sequiturs in your response i'm not sure where to begin

What did the Romans ever do for us etc (apart from expand the iron age road network). And the existence of turnpikes disproves the built for public benefit theory and even then they weren't built for cars. The boom in tarmac roads came from the uptake of cycling at the end of the nineteenth century who lobbied government for better roads. Its not until the 50s that you see roads built for cars primarily in mind. /typo edit

Within a 12 month period between 2016 & 2017.

You didn't correct anything at all.

You're having a reading comprehension lapse again.

Again this is all untrue.

You must be exhausted after all this goal post moving.

Rockets, thanks for agreeing London isn't the most congested city on the world. As for INRIX, I don't know. Does that report tell you? It tells you in one part that major road works (nb not LTN) stopped in one city, resulting in a large reduction in congestion from the last year. It tells you that the majority (>75%) of uk cities had increased congestion. I'm not sure 75% of cities in the uk have LTNs do they? It also says that there's a significant impact in different cities and the way they returned to work post covid. But how does INRIX measure congestion? Oh yes, their methodology (apart from ignoring data from China and India) for their congestion rankings is based on an assumption that you should be able to travel at the same speed at peak time as off peak. Their methodology then uses that difference to create a ranking. Can you see a flaw? They also don't factor in the length of the journey taken. So sprawling carcentric cities get lower rankings (which is why LA doesn't feature and we all know what Dione Warwick's pithy transport evaluation of that city was). Inrix say that global road gridlock is getting closer and that road pricing (not means tested) is the answer.

And yet the INRIX research you are quoting also says that the busiest london roads causing the majority of the delays are nowhere near LTNs. It says that that worst effect was on the Fulham Road as Hammersmith Bridge was closed by - guess what, too much vibration from vehicles. [INRIX also doesn't include cities in China or India, so 'most congested in the world except for those other pesky bits of continents with cities in']

Half of this isn't true true is it? Driving is a privilege not a right, recognised by the fact that a license is revocable and that compulsory insurance required to operate a vehicle on the road. If it were a right, you could have your license revoked and still justify driving. Try that and see what happens.