The day cyclists rule the roads

[tintin40]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-4 ... -the-roads

 

[kingbling]

Fantastic

 

[tintin40]

I just wouldn't have thought it would have been in that part of the world. Long way to go but looking good.

 

[michael franks]

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I just wouldn't have thought it would have been in that part of the world. Long way to go but looking good.

I wouldn't have thought it would start in that part of the world either but it's got to start somewhere and it looks as though it has.

 

[Mike Muz]

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Can you imagine the uproar if it happened in this country? When the roads are closed in London for the 100 mile event, motorists complain. Even complain when it's the Olympics, ffs!

 

[xerxes]

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Can you imagine the uproar if it happened in this country? When the roads are closed in London for the 100 mile event, motorists complain. Even complain when it's the Olympics, ffs!

We shouldn't have let cars use the existing roads in the first place. Most of the roads in existence pre-date motor vehicles by a fair bit, some of them by millennia and motorists were allowed to use them; now they are entrenched and behave as if they own them and it's their absolute right to use them. We should have insisted that they pay for their own network of roads for the exclusive use of motor vehicles, whist the rest of us carried on happily with little fear of death or injury safely away from their noise and noxious fumes.

Totally unworkable of course, but wouldn't it be nice.