2015-12-11 Drive to work day

It is the third year of the successful annual Drive to work day so please join in this December if you are:

Worried by the war on the motorist
Pissed off by the price of petrol
Annoyed by the arrogance of cyclists and bus users

Then leave your bike at home, your bus pass in the drawer, your walking shoes in the cupboard and join thousands of others on Thursday 11th December for London’s third Drive to Work Day.
Experience the rush, the freedom of London streets empty of pesky cyclers and walkers. Laugh as you whizz by the empty buses and tubes.

Read about 2013's smog-inducing success when over a million drivers took part:

Or the 2012, the inaugural year's amazing turnout

Catch up with our latest post where we express anger with all the people, animals and inanimate objects that crash into our cars

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Let's make Drive to Work Day 2014 the best one ever!

From the drive to work day link:

          Dear Sir/Madam

I’m working on a Channel 5 documentary about commuting and looking for someone who drives to work in London and sits in gridlock traffic for 45 minutes or so.
Do you know anyone who might be interested in taking part?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully,
Will Steel

I don't think that is the website you're looking for...

You'd think so hairnetnic though many drivers do follow @drivetoworkday some driving orgs joined in on the day,
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](http://www.youdrive.org.uk/)[The Driver’s Union ](http://www.youdrive.org.uk/) (@DriverUnion) and Drive East Midlands (@EastMidsDrivers) will be joining us (as will Kieth Peat if his dog @KeithPeatsDog lets him)

Good summer spin-off event up here this weekend, congratulations to all participants.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/ideal-home-exhibition-trafford-centre-7232798

Latest Drive to work day post is about space for walking
http://drivetoworkday.org/2014/11/16/space-for-walking/

The theme of this years Drive to Work Day is celebrating the huge road building plan announced by the government:
More here:
http://drivetoworkday.org/2014/12/06/uk-drivers-a-time-to-celebrate/

(5 days till DTW-day)

Looking forward to driving to work tommorow. Hiring a Hummer Limousine for the day

I've rented a Subaru for the day. Thanks Hertz

Strike that: got a good deal and an Aston Martin

I brought home the van from work just so I can drive in tomorrow. Can't wait, 1 sleep to go!

Another reason to get involved, it'll be the cheapest d2wd yet:

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30415460

Joining in shortly but was out earlier cheering on participants as they reached their first congestion point.

Not a cyclist or pedestrian to be seen, seems everyone has made the extra effort to #drivetowork today.

Well done.

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I didn't realise this was actually a thing.
Didn't participate, but today was the first commute for as long as I can remember where I don't recall seeing another cyclist, even on the cycleway.

Some cyclists must definitely have driven in today, as when I stopped at the red light at the junction of Capworth Street and Leyton High Road this morning, the two cars behind me went through.

My partner didn't participate as a driver, but did as a cyclist when she was nearly taken off her bike by someone who she described as "taking drive to work day very seriously".

@rhb Sorry to hear that. Hope she's ok. Too many people take drive to work day too seriously too often

thanks, she's fine about it, we discussed a nicer route into town that avoids that particular junction for future d2wd's.

p.s. hope yesterday was a success and 2015 can be even bigger

Latest from the drive to work day team
http://drivetoworkday.org/2015/08/04/put-your-fcking-mouth-up/

Put your fucking mouth shut!

Golden dissection:
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-brief-overanalysis-of-that-road-rage-video-where-that-guy-smashes-his-face-on-a-pavement-606

Golden sentence
Golden fall
Golden karma
It put my fucking mouth shut

Flagged by greenhell in the news thread but shows how much of a terror threat these bully boy cyclists are and how much safer we would all be if we all drove to work.

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/cyclists-pose-more-dangers-than-motorists-claims-transport-minister/018723

Too right!
Time to get on my high horse ;)

Dec 11 approaches...

refuse to wear helmets expecting the drivers to take care not to hit them,

Are these folks for real?

They are real, there's a helmet thread on this very forum full of people who refuse to wear helmets and expect cars* to drive with a degree of competence that would avoid a crash.

(* reference to cars is deliberate as a quick scan of the press shows its cars which cause accidents* not drivers)

(* reference to accidents deliberate as a quick scan of the press shows that collisions caused by careless or inattentive cars and lorries are indeed accidents)