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• Cycle superhighways are getting rid of bus lanes

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• Cycle superhighways are getting rid of bus lanes

  in General • 8 years, 8 months

  

  @Aroogah

  I am not talking as a motorcyclist, I am talking as a user of public transport (bus). I thought a constructive discussion was possible. I was wrong. You have pretty much all confirmed the us vs them aggressive attitude of the nazi cycle lobby. Congrats, guys!

• Cycle superhighways are getting rid of bus lanes

  in General • 8 years, 8 months

  

  @Brookly_Bay
  "Normal traffic" is already penalised, and rightly so. between congestion charge, insanely expensive parking fees in central London, etc, it is already heavily penalised. Quite simply, it is delusional and wrong to think it can or should be entirely eliminated, as there will always be cases where public transport or cycling are not feasible options.

• Cycle superhighways are getting rid of bus lanes

  in General • 8 years, 8 months

  

  @Brookly_Bayto
  to the detriment of all those people who can't cycle and whose bus journeys will take much longer, but who cares about them, since they are not organised in super aggressive lobbies like cyclists are?

• Cycle superhighways are getting rid of bus lanes

  in General • 8 years, 8 months

  

  @wildwest

  With all due respect, so what? Single cases are utterly irrelevant. I am a motorcyclist. If I had received a penny every time I saw a cyclist doing something stupid and worthy of the Darwin awards ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards ), I'd be a billionaire by now.
  I'm sure you can tell similar stories of motorcyclists who misbehaved on the road, of course.

• Cycle superhighways are getting rid of bus lanes

  in General • 8 years, 8 months

  

  So, basically, not a single person on this forum is prepared to acknowledge that segregated cycle highways have been and will be inconveniencing users of public transport. The utter disrespect for other road users is amazing.

• Cycle superhighways are getting rid of bus lanes

  in General • 8 years, 8 months

  

  @Brookly_Bay

  Oh, yes, sure, and what happens to 'normal traffic' then? Not your problem, right?

• Cycle superhighways are getting rid of bus lanes

  in General • 8 years, 8 months

  

  @Hefty

  And I'm sure your granny is representative of the tens thousands of grannies who cycle into central London. Odd, I always see mainly people in their 20s to 40s, mainly male and disproportionately white, cycling into central London, while all the other categories seem to be on buses and tubes.

• Cycle superhighways are getting rid of bus lanes

  in General • 8 years, 8 months

  

  @Thrasher

  Define efficient. Efficient for whom?
  How about those who can't cycle, eg grannies, families with babies, people with luggage? You don't care about them because you don't belong to those categories, right?

• Cycle superhighways are getting rid of bus lanes

  in General • 8 years, 8 months

  

  @stedlocks
  so asking a question is trolling, yet calling bus users wankers is OK. Are these the forum rules? Am I right in suspecting that if a user were to call cyclists wankers he'd be banned, but a cyclist can call non-cyclists wankers? Congratulations, guys, lovely forum you have