The War on Britain's Roads (BBC Documentary / tabloid tv)

I've heard only one 'boo' at a Lucas Brunelle film at bff, out of my drunken mouth. I have to admit however that they're one of the things that got me back on my bike having skated for transport for a number of years up to 2006/7. Seriously, those films are like crack.

I'm really tempted to send these excellent spindrift messages to Cash In The Attic tv prod co inc.

Synopsis:

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/bbc-doc-portrays-dvd-stunt-cycling-footage-as-standard-behaviour/014036

Right, get the misrepresentation in early.

That means nothing and is probably not true. Things are much better than they were fifteen years ago.

Unverifiable anecdotes from cabbies, lovely.

If the cabbie just wanted to go about his business why did he deliberately steer into the cyclist then get out and assault him? Why did nobody ask him this?

Evidence?

There we go again, no actual evidence, just lofty pronouncements that things are worse and cyclists risk getting beaten up if they venture out on a bike.

Any actual evidence? Like how cyclists in The City get ticketed for RLJing more than drivers do once you allow for the percentages.

"Taking over the road"? Or riding in accord with national standards to avoid dangerous overtakes?

Yep, only cyclists jump reds.

Lovely.

Cyclists have a "wobble room" enshrined in case law, any competent driver would know the Highway Code- that you leave enough room for the cyclist that if they toppled sideways you'd miss them. Quite a few drivers have killed cyclists and not been charged with anything!

Two thirds to blame? And nobody challenged that?

There we have it, a load of dangerous, ignorant, victim-blaming garbage from those world-famous experts on cycling, the makers of Cash In The Attic.

This really is shit on toast.

They could have showed how someone who lives in zone 3 and works in central London could save £130 a month by cycling. They could have highlighted how a rise in numbers has made things safer, I mean did you really feel encouraged to cycle by that programme? They could have done some proper reporting like a proper documentary that isn't just You tube clips and covered real stories like how the cops allowed Eilidh Cairns killer to kill again, or Thames Materials and Dennis Putz, a man who'd been banned from driving 16 times and got a job driving a lorry in London. Ask who insured him and did his employers know. Proper investigating journalism.

This wasn't proper investigating journalism, it was tawdry and cheap and not helpful, a lot of it was "Look at this idiot" when maybe it would be better to look at what actually makes roads safer. And it isn't a whistle.