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Watched it, wasn't as inflammatory as I thought it was going to be from the trail, think maybe the programme makers tweaked the cut after the outraged feedback.
But what were people expecting, we live in an era of does what it says on the tin programming, if it says the war on britains roads, its not going to show how we can co-exist on the roads in a step by step fashion.
Found the angle they took on Gaz very unflattering, felt like I was looking up his nose all the time, and he didn't seem to have much of a chin either. Also not quite sure what was achieved by showing all the participants the helmet footage.
Where I think this programme does a lot of damage is in being another drip in the drip drip drip of cycling being unsafe, that cyclists using the roads are unsafe/at risk. It just helps perpetuate the climate of fear that surrounds cycling, which is to my mind the main reason more people don't cycle.
Someone posted this up a month or so ago, and this programme fits right into Peter Horton's fear of cycling theory see part two for constructing the fear of cycling, but read all of it, puts alot of things into perspective ..
http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/09/fear-of-cycling-01-essay-in-five-parts.html