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  1. Upgrading/improving roads [other than a better surface] is a complete waste of time. Roads always fill to capacity, so a very expensive and pointless task as you end up with same congestion. https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
  2. I totally agree, the thousands killed on the roads every year and the hundreds of thousands injured with some ending up crippled and in wheelchairs can only be a good thing. Such people obviously deserve to suffer. </sarcasm> BTW speed limits are not just about safety but traffic flow. Make the main roads into city 50mph and you'll simply get gridlock when too much traffic gets to centre at the same time.
  3. Apparently ITV are filming a sitcom called 'Brief Encounters' about the Anne Summers shops.
  4. I seem to recall putting a hospital on the land was going to happen at one point, but like every other idea for the site I guess that in the end it simply wasn't financially viable.
  5. Also some slip roads have traffic lights on them too. ---------- Post added 12-02-2016 at 20:55 ---------- I have driven at 20mph on the motorway. Why? A couple of times because the fog was so thick, one couldn't see the next cat's eye in the road. I drove as far left as possible because despite the conditions, some complete morons were whizzing past at 70-80mph. The chance of such braindead speed merchants using the inside lane as they are meant to was slim because idiots who drive fast like that won't use the 'slow' lane. But even so I stayed close to the side. Thank god it was late at night and relatively quiet, it would have been carnage otherwise. Seen similar morons overtaking slow moving traffic on inside lane on the pack ice covering the middle lane that had not yet been cleared off the road. Outside lane was a snow drift and it was still snowing heavily.
  6. Well Victorian era shots in Dr Who were filmed in Swansea a while back. Not because Swansea is still stuck in that era, but because there were a group of houses from that time that were not too modernised and perfect to use for period shooting. Same thing will apply to using any location. I worked on a film that was set in the 1960s. The location of Wentworth Village was chosen because it's part of Wentworth Estate which means no replacing doors with modern ones, no satellite dishes or altering the properties. We only had to hide yellow lines to make it look of the time. Finding a 1960s kitchen was the hard part, but one house luckily had an kitchen even older than that decade which was just perfect. Shame the period fridge died a month or two earlier as we had to take big modern replacement out of the kitchen for shooting.
  7. You seem extremely determined to prove how little you know. You are nothing more than an insulting anonymous troll. Being a member of most cycling clubs will give you insurance as will joining British Cycling , The CTC or similar bodies. I also need insurance as I sometimes teach kids how to ride safely on the roads and avoid idiots like the ones posting anti-cyclist nonsense here on SF. ---------- Post added 12-02-2016 at 18:06 ---------- Your posts read like satire, except sadly they are not. Bigotry, the inability to spell, use correct grammar or be nice go hand in hand. As usual.
  8. Boris Johnson a leading conservative politician is a leading cycle campaigner. Our conservative Prime Minister is also know to ride bikes, so what was your point again? Ah yes like most bigots you do not have one, just insults and zero facts.
  9. No it was patronising and insulting, a theme you kept up throughout which indicates you were starting as you mean to go on. I don't find anything amusing about bullies who think killing and maiming other people is acceptable. How about I joke about people abusing your children, murdering your family or torturing your pets, just for a laugh as that then makes it all OK. You quite rightly wouldn't like that I wager as it is not acceptable. So please explain why bullying people off the roads, if you haven't killed or maimed them just so one can spend a few seconds longer waiting at next traffic lights. All whilst deludedly thinking you can save time on your journey home is funny or reasonable?
  10. Being an insulting and ignorant bigot only make you look foolish. Bikes can cost more than cars, so hardly 'scrap' and those who commute are keen cyclists tend to be richer than those who just drive. As for payouts it would be the same as any other such claim against individuals, you do not need insurance for that. Insurance is mandatory for motor vehicles because they cause so much damage, so very regularly. Bikes do not, so no need for insurance. Anyway, like many keen cyclists I am insured. ---------- Post added 12-02-2016 at 17:43 ---------- I bet your struggle to even vote at all with your grasp of reality. Probably be UKIP or National Front judging by your ignorance, bigotry and hatred if you could even manage to find polling station.
  11. Do you mean whilst driving? Once. When a car stopped on an empty roundabout at night for no reason at all. Which I now realise was an insurance scam, having later heard about numerous other such incidents where the car in front deliberately causes a rear end shunt to make a dodgy claim Whilst cycling, cars overtake me and immediately turn left or more frequently brake as there is nowhere to for them to go once they pass me. Idiots even try overtaking as I'm slowing down for red traffic lights. Managed to avoid them all bar two morons who overtook me and turned left I was whilst passing junction they wanted to turn into. I now take primary position on the road to minimise the danger whenever necessary. Primary position is the middle of the lane and is used to prevent people passing you when it isn't safe. Primary is the default position for any vehicle including bikes. However cyclists usually ride in secondary position as a courtesy to drivers to allow overtaking [if safe to do so]. The really stupid thing about the idiotic and dangerous overtaking by cars is that around town I'm much faster on a bike than they are. I have a car but rarely use it around town as it's quicker and easier to cycle places.
  12. Dear me. One of the dumbest things I've yet heard from bigots on this topic. What other nonsense are you going to make up?
  13. Road deaths and injuries due to motor vehicles are in the hundreds of thousands a year. Cycling instead of driving reduces those numbers, this also reduces air pollution and overall burden on the NHS, so they are lowering costs on the system and as well as minimising deaths and injuries. So what was your point again? Oh yes you don't have one. So your post is either a load of gibberish or satire, hard to tell really.
  14. It was exactly what I was hoping people would be smart enough not to do, because the whole point of post was the fact that drivers love to blame everyone else for every little infraction. The inconvenient fact they choose to ignore is that they are the ones killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of people every year. You're welcome to the very ignorant and cliche award for cognitive dissonance certainly. Cars jump lights ALL the time, yet drivers will very rarely admit to it. All they want to do is attack others to divert blame. Drivers kill tens of people people every day, cyclist do this so rarely I cannot even find any stats for it. Drivers kill more people a year in the UK than Al Qaeda managed to by hijacking + crashing planes on 9/11, one of the worst terrorist attacks. However even more people died because of driving as a result of avoiding flying after 9/11 than in the attacks.
  15. You are not big on facts are you. This your first sneery and patronising post in this topic and your posts don't get beyond that low level sadly.
  16. I've now have zero tolerance with people who endanger my life or those who post stupid things that support antisocial and dangerous behaviour as you and numerous others have done. There is no justification for it. I doubt anyone here would defend such violent and aggressive behaviour if it was any other context other than driving? I end up in conflict with other drivers because they start the problem. Way too many people drive in an aggressive bullying manner and attack and intimidate others with their cars. I hate bullies of any kind and refuse to let such thuggery push me off the road. Why accuse the person driving or cycling in a legal manner of being the problem when they object to dangerous and inconsiderate driving? ---------- Post added 11-02-2016 at 20:32 ---------- You started with the personal insults. But then you aren't interested in facts that get in the way of your world view. ---------- Post added 11-02-2016 at 20:44 ---------- This underlines the remarkable ignorance of drivers who do not also cycle. Most cyclist are also drivers BTW and own a car too. We have both cars and bikes in our household. I personally don't know any cyclists who are car-less in fact. Motor vehicles kill thousands of people every year and injure hundreds of thousands of people. Bikes do not. The more bikes there are the less dangerous accidents there will be overall. Plus less ill health and longer lives amongst those who ride and less pollution for everyone. Not to mention bikes don't even need roads, I and many other like to ride as much as we can off road and you do not even need a mountain bike to ride on non paved tracks and trails, just a bicycle.
  17. Duh! Not very bright are you. It wasn't a threat it was an analogy to show how daft your attitude was. The fact it was clearly labelled as satire seemed to pass you by too.
  18. You are the cliche aren't you? The many thousands of people killed every years on our roads are not killed by cyclists. But by drivers. How much in denial can you be? You are proving the point of my post, drivers do not like to take responsibility for their own actions. Selfish behaviour that kills more people than terrorists in their wildest dreams could even hope to murder and yet you attack a group of people who regularly get killed by drivers. Deliberately at times too. A group of people who the more there are on the roads, the less people will be killed. An idiot cyclist tends to hurt themselves, not others unlike drivers surrounded by a tonne of metal and safety features that protect the driver.
  19. More ignorance. It is cheaper to have a good efficient public transport system that everyone contributes to and benefits from, than a city that is now suffering from poor air quality, gridlock if someone sneezes in city and the expense of using private bus companies who provide an inferior service. The only people who benefit are the owners of said bus companies. Who do not even live in Sheffield.
  20. And you are a patronising muppet and possibly the sort of person who would happily endanger or kill others if it meant you got to your destination 4 seconds earlier. Maybe someone should come by your place on a regular basis and threaten you with a baseball bat and then I can call you a cry baby if you complained, as every time bat was swung at you the thug just happened to miss. So far. </satire>
  21. Bus fares used to be much cheaper and for an excellent service. Unsurprisingly it was heavily used and Sheffield had I believe the lowest car ownership in country as a result. This was however deemed a bad thing and was stopped for petty political reasons. The fact that no-one in city benefitted from increased pollution, more congestion, less parking spaces, a poorer bus service etc was not important. Small minded ideology was more more important than success.
  22. Yawn. Cliche No 1 ticked off within 2 posts. Drivers need to take responsibility for their own antisocial behaviour and stop blaming/attacking others. Vehicles kill thousands of people a year and injure and maim tens of thousands of others. Cyclists however do not have the capacity to kill and injure in the same way, not to mention the rider is more likely to be hurt than anyone else unlike with cars which are very safe to be in if having an accident. There is very, very little comparison between the cycles and enclosed motorised vehicles, one had a large capacity to hurt others and protect the driver, the other very little ability to hurt drivers and a big risk to the cyclist. ---------- Post added 10-02-2016 at 23:24 ---------- This is the point I am trying to make. Drivers seem to feel that their actions are without consequence and yet love to blame everyone else for road problems when drivers are the ones killing waaaaay more people than all the terrorists in the world combined.
  23. Common sense is anything but common. The reason 20mph limits [or any limits] are being put in place is because people simply do not drive at sensible speed on such roads. Signs increase social pressure on most people to drive more responsibly. The majority are most certainly not suffering in any way, because everyone benefits if people are being encouraged to drive more sensibly on residential roads. ---------- Post added 10-02-2016 at 23:07 ---------- Removing lines, pavement edges, fences and other 'safety' features has been proven to reduce accidents when employed in numerous places. The reason behind this is the safer you make something seem, the more risks people will take in that location. Removing speed limits is not part of this though.
  24. Drivers love to whinge, moan and complain about how hard their lot is what with the 'war on motorists', cyclists committing every crime known to man, speed bumps forcing them to drive at the speed limit and cameras that fine them if when break the law anyway. Daftest of all they complain about traffic delaying them, not realising they are traffic. But the real issue is that driving a vehicle seems to be an excuse to not only be a scofflaw, but it allows people to behave in extremely antisocial and violent behaviour that would not be tolerated in any other context. This last week whilst either driving or cycling within a kilometer of where I live in Sheffield, I have had someone endanger my and others lives every single time. Why? To save themselves a few precious seconds so they can sit at the next traffic lights a bit longer. Some examples. The car was very nearly t-boned by an idiot violently accelerating out of a retail park, long after the lights had changed to red and I had already driven through on green. The idiot stopped a few cm from side of my car. Cars jump red light all the time, but this was particularly stupid. Someone pulling out from where they were parked into the flowing traffic in front of me and then immediately stopped to turn right, causing everyone to do an emergency stop. A muppet signals and pulls in without bothering to check the inside lane was clear. Signalling does not mean you can maneuver regardless. Another emergency stop required. Another impatient fool overtakes me on a bend on a narrow road causing me to swerve bike off in between parked cars and the person driving in the opposite direction to do an emergency stop. Today's moron unnecessarily skims past me whilst I'm cycling only to then, as is usual, stop just in front of me. It was safe for me to pass cars on outside so I did. Traffic lights ahead change so I'm about to stop for them but recalling the aggressive driver, I check behind. Numpty is now accelerating to get through the lights he could easily stop for, this time skimming past me on the inside. If I'd stopped for the lights, the thug in a car would have probably have taken me out from behind. Heck if I wanted to kill someone, the easiest way would be to use a car to do it. In the unlikely event one get caught, you come out with some nonsense excuse and not much will happen to you, such as the stupid woman who drove through the cyclist on Dronfield bypass and killed him. Or the courtesy car that rammed a cyclist in Nottingham last week and there was no conveniently no record of who had car out at the time. I think people after passing their test should have P [provisional] plates and then have to pass the Advanced Driving Test within two years before getting a full licence. A bit like the motorbike system. Then if you fail your advanced driving test, you have to start over again. Fail it three times and you are simply not allowed to drive again. The advanced driving skills level should be the norm, as they are not really advanced at all, but simply good basic driving skills.
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