Boycott Addison Lee

Talking about improvements is all well and good, certainly the first step. However, as long as it's just talk with no action, it's worth nil, at least to me.

You were talking to the media head, it's his job to say they're working on bettering themselves, be it green thinking, pondering electric vehicles, getting cycle training, planting trees to save the earth or learning how to drive sensibly in London.

It takes a split second to ruin your brand like mr Griffin has. It will take a long time to restore it. Even longer to better it.

Don't get me wrong, talking about improvements is the first step, but they have to act as well.

Been thinking about this for a bit now. I'm a bit of a cynic, as you might tell from the above, but spending a bit if time thinking about this I feel obliged to encourage what's happening.

That the media head acknowledges that there is a problem is a good thing. It's the first step to fix what's broken. The second step is for him to convince his boss. Best way to do this is to argue it in money terms, ie if he can argue that they make more money by driving sensibly, it's a no brainer.

One way to support that arguing is by boycotting them for not driving sensibly, just like we do at the moment. But if they start talking about bettering themselves, we should acknowledge that and spur them on. We, as fellow users of the roads, and a very visible part of the cycling community (?), should take our responsibility to help them better themselves. To carry on the debate in a cyclist vs cars / taxis / lorries way won't solve anything. If we talk about ourselves as people using the same road, but in/on different vehicles, perhaps we can agree on a way to share the road that works for everyone.