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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Bicycle riders
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.103846.6535@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:38:46 GMT
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- John Callingham (jc@fulcrum.co.uk) wrote:
- : In article <Bxz2s1.3sE@exnet.co.uk> s0rah@exnet.co.uk (R A Hollands) writes:
- :
- :
- : > Of late it seems to me that people on bikes have started to believe
- : > they're pedestrians. They ride past me on the pavement and they don't
- : > have lights at night.
- :
- : > It must be months since I saw a bicycle at night with lights. Is this
- : > anyone else's experience?
- :
- : > I think *I'm* a pedestrian but then I haven't got a bike.
- :
- :
- : It is too dangerous for cyclists to ride on roads without bus lanes.
- : So cyclists ride on the pavement and make the pavements dangerous for
- : pedestrians. Another example of the way that cars are becoming the
- : only form of transport for the vast majority.
- :
- : The number of cars on our roads is continously increasing. Anyone got
- : any ideas on what to do with them all?
-
- Also their drivers appear rather dumb reading road signs, either that
- or there are some very odd taxis going down New Street.
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