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@htccallaghan
20mph sucks if you’re a driver. The average driver during busy times is just trying to get to and from work, or they are working. i don't see why the driver should have to be subject to more rules than they are already, after all that is what we (cyclists) are complaining about, the possibility of being subject to more rules.
To enforce a 20mph rule to cars everywhere would surly mean that you would have to enforce it to bikes also, and who doesn't ever get up to 20mph down a hill. i actually don't know as i don't have a bike computer/heart rate/gps/twat meter on my any of my bikes (because they look shit), which in turn makes a point, what’s to stop bikes from getting speeding tickets?
I think the problem shouldn't be about restricting speed, and anyone who uses the words 'health and safety' is talking out of there arse. perhaps having more cycle awareness incorporated into a driving test or some informal advertising aimed at cyclists in the form of billboards next to bike racks which show diagrams of blind spots and dangers of jumping lights. Which 'us lot' are all aware of anyway but might put off someone who cycles rarely trying to copy cat and getting hurt.