Re: Streets reclaimed again.


"Doug" <jagmad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote

[snip]

..stm

I couldn't help laughing at this understatement.

""The single biggest deterrent to people getting on their bikes is
that they feel nervous.""

When of course what they really fear is being killed by errant
drivers.

Indeed. Some people are afraid of heights, some people are afraid of
spiders, some people are afraid of flying

The airline industry runs courses to cure people of fear of flying,
and now you can take courses too, often free, to overcome fear of
cycling.

The difference is that there is no lobby to terrorise people out of
flying, but there is to terrorise people out of cycling.

It's the madder end of the militant motorists who are the core of
those who try to terrorise people out of cycling, but with any such
campaign it's best to get people apparently neutral, or even on the
other side, to state your case.

Stalin supposedly used to call such people "poleznye idioty" - useful
idiots.

Whether Doug is one of those I couldn't possibly comment, although I
do not think he is actually in the pay of the motoring lobby

Jeremy Parker


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