"Is dangerous cycling a problem" BBC

News story on the BBC this morning: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13040607

Its the comments underneath that always annoy me the most...

oh, how i wish i was a well-paid man in expensive "leisuirewear."

Is dangerous cycling a problem? >>>> Is cycling a dangerous problem?

Ha ha, you fuckwit

Thanks for your contribution. you spotted a typo, go you!

It's more than a typo! Radically changes the meaning of the sentence.

what do we call this now, mean-o's?

Is danger a dangerous danger ?

dyxlesia, its a cnut...

• subtly changes topic * How bout this weather???
  

the'yre dangerous

that article has links to a bbc article debating helmets and another on women cyclists being more at risk. you could easily get your days fix of anger by just clicking links

Boom -
Pedestrian casualties 2001-09

• Killed by cycles: 18
  
• Seriously injured by cycles: 434
  
• Killed by cars: 3,495
  
• Seriously injured by cars: 46,245
  
  

I would imagine a good chunk of the injuries are caused by nodders on mountain bikes with asda bags over their handlebars too.

What are the number of cars on road vs number of bikes? Or comparison of average distance travelled per trip? That data would help make more sense of those stats.

Boom -
Pedestrian casualties 2001-09

[]Killed by cycles: 18
[]Seriously injured by cycles: 434
[]Killed by cars: 3,495
[]Seriously injured by cars: 46,245
I would imagine a good chunk of the injuries are caused by nodders on mountain bikes with asda bags over their handlebars too.

or 'cyclists' on pavements that shouldn't really be called cyclists

or maybe how many of those pedestrians stepped into the road 1 foot in front of said cycle while on the phone.

The most dangerous form is cycleby shooting. There's nothing more dangerous and those who take part should be made an example.

Why do you feel the need to justify yourself to a bunch of cyclists? What have you got to hide?

The numbers are irrelevant, unless turned into percentages, what if there was only 1 cyclist in the UK ( i know there are more!) but by that statistic it would make them a mass murderer!

The "news" here is surely more about why the MP feels the need to introduce legislation to combat a problem that simply does not exist.

It's as if they wanted to introduce legislation cracking down in the danger posed by improperly packaged Stilton- what's the point? What is their angle?

That might be quite interesting, rather than the standard Lunatic Magnet article that the Beeb has written.

what's the point?

Self publicity.

I'd prefer she did this than come up some other spazy law that might actually create a significant change in my life.

EDIT: Also she probably does have the backing to do anything meaningful.

Dammit Dammit, if you havent had a close call with improperly packaged stilton then you just dont know
you will never know, maan

Question is if fast riding is dangerous or slow.. ha

Question is if fast riding is dangerous or slow.. ha

Mean does what this?

Self publicity.

Spot on. She's a newbie in the commons, and hitting out at an obscure minority is always a good one if you want to make yourselves heard. She goes back to 2007 to find an example in order to prove her point - and it sounds odd enough. If there is one Highway Code that applies to all, I do not see how they could possibly fit in extra measures that only apply to a specific part of road users. Jumping a red light is already an offense.

"Now, at least in built-up areas, one stereotype, rightly or wrongly, is of well-paid men in expensive leisurewear with a sense of entitlement and a refusal to conform to the same rules as everyone else."

Priceless.

The "news" here is surely more about why the MP feels the need to introduce legislation to combat a problem that simply does not exist.

*Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. *
Groucho Marx

Leadsom's edited her webpage so it makes no sense. She's deleted the bit about Rhiannon being on the pavement (which is also what she claimed in the House of Commons), then left this in:

"If Rhiannon had been killed by a car which had mounted the pavement, the driver would have faced a sentence of up to 14 years in prison."

http://www.andrealeadsom.com/home/dangerous-and-reckless-cycling-10-minute-rule-bill/265

A student who knocked down and killed a grandmother as she read a text message while driving arrived at court today to hear her sentence clutching her mobile. Keisha Wall, 20, carried the device into Reading Crown Court before she was jailed for two and a half years for causing the death of 63-year-old Christine Lyon in Reading in February last year.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375700/Texting-motorist-killed-OAP-jailed-turns-court-carrying-mobile-phone.html#ixzz1JOyuAF00

I doubt Andrea Leadsom is a frequent cyclist or competent MP.

She's had three years to check what actually happened in Rhiannon's case and she still gets it wrong. I used to commute along the Lee and Regents canal, if a gang of youths who'd been drinking blocked my way I would probably want to get away from them. Leadsom is exploiting the grieving parents just as much as the media exploit James Bulger's mum and wheel her out to express her horror and sadness at something or other.

Boom -
Pedestrian casualties 2001-09

[]Killed by cycles: 18
[]Seriously injured by cycles: 434
[]Killed by cars: 3,495
[]Seriously injured by cars: 46,245

I would imagine a good chunk of the injuries are caused by nodders on mountain bikes with asda bags over their handlebars too.

I think a couple of those were me turning left on south side of waterloo bridge southbound the other day. Soz