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@El_Diablo
The posts here leave me with a range of emotions- anger, saddness, bewildered, and frightened are come some that spring to mind.
In the Metro last Friday there was an article about a city Co Director woman who was killed on a bike in London, regretably other "lesser" peeps don't seem to get mentioned. The death and injury rate are being swept under the carpet.
Someone told me yesterday that the law that the motorist was guilty until proven innocent in place in parts of Europe was rejected by Mr Blair- I know that cuts across the way we do things over here- innocent until proven guilty, but if it was in place, it might make motorists think twice.
The CTC seems to have lot its teeth recently in chipping away at bad attitudes etc.
Just an idea-now I'm not one to rant and rave often, but its getting to a time for a show of solidarity with eg an equivalent of a protest march to Downing St to hand in a petition to stop this creeping violent death in some way. Maybe some of the other protest rides need to focus on that, and we can all join in there.
As to Boris, he does have a man who deals with cycling, I've met him twice on club runs and he's a tidy rider so knows his stuff on cycling, (he was a higher ranking cop before that) I know he recently spoke at the Pedal Club dinner, I'm buggered if I can recall his name, but I have a mate who is in touch with him, so maybe its time to engage, and see his views, maybe he'd come out to beers nights and see everday London cyclists (and its the same everywhere for cycling in the UK, I'm not short sighted, meeting very fast cars on narrow roads up and down the country is equally unfunny).
I'll make contact and update.