CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
I propose an occasional thread for snippets of dunderheided opinions, anecdotes, etc. from folk who just can't see what the real problem is with transport in the UK.
First up, that giant of broadcasting and the multi coloured swap shop:
@Telegraph
Noel Edmonds says 'Britain is full' after getting stuck in traffic jam
Doesn't he believe in some "cosmic ordering" BS? Maybe he could ask nicely for his own private car lane and the universe may deliver.
Wr'd better start rationing space then.
Rule 1 only 1 car per household
Rule 2 cycle paths are smaller than roads so each mile of new road requires 2 miles of old road to be converted to cycle path.
How about Alan Sugar complaining about London congestion, using the example of him taking an hour to drive what could be covered in 10minutes on the tube?
I thought Noel had a helicopter?
And Alan just took delivery of a new, custom-built Pinarello.
Mind you, the plebs can't afford to fly to the US or Spain just to ride their bike like his Lordship (who doesn't appear to ride in the UK at all).
Lord Sugar says 99 per cent of cycling 'accidents' in London could be avoided with more ‘situational awareness’ from cyclists
Situational awareness and the ability to levitate.
"Almost as if Sugar the driver and Sugar the cyclist were different people, he then appeared to laud dedicated cycle paths when asked whether cyclists should be ordered to use them."
See, cognitive dissonance as schizophrenia.
He's right about situational awareness:
Stickman that's brilliant. I think "situational awareness" is my new punchline.
The dangerous thing about toxic polution from most cars is that's it invisible. What the picture doesn't tell you is that in the middle of the bottom road you can hear birdsong and smell freshly cut grass in the park alongside. OK electric cars may not be perfect but they are (in my eyes) hugely preferable to the alternative.
I'm fairly sure the roar I can hear from the bypass when I'm halfway up the Pentlands is the tyres and not the engines.
That's undoubtedly true but my comment was specifically aimed at the picture of the what I take to be stationary traffic on a freeway. Other than running the aircon at full blast and a few blaring radios they're unlikely to be making much noise.
Fair enough. Probably true of most city driving too (scarily?)
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