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I'm new to this forum, but anyone seen the Sunday Times?
They ran another article on cycling and how to make the infrastructure safer. But it was titled:
Keep cyclists safe - ban us from main roads
Exactly what we dont need. Inflamatory titles that could polarise the views of motorists. In addition the stupid bint talks about A-roads at the end, and how scary it is to be passed at 60 mph, fostering wrong ideas that we shouldn't be on the roads. Its the motorists that are at fault, if they overtake you closely at 60 mph. Yet a campaign like this could see growing opinion to ban us from countryside rides.
When are the Times going to talk about the attitudes and awareness of drivers? I initially welcomed the campaign, but their message seems muddled and this thing could go the wrong way...