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"Cyclists are a menace causing accidents on roads where traffic travels at 60mph
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Posted 14 years ago #
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Pretty crappy cyclists going at 6mph, was it a trike?
:) Great idea about the £500 levy, just imagine the cycle facilities we'd get, and hey it would only marginally put up the price of an Asda BSO by 714% (ish)
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"just imagine the cycle facilities we'd get, "
You don't think it would be spent on cycle facilities do you?...
So assuming Herald letter writer thinks that's price of an average bike, imagine that being the tax % on a car - and the money being spent on cycling improvements!
(I believe it's something like that in Singapore.)
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Wow so to register a car you've got to pay $140 plus 105% of the open market value of the car plus an excise duty of 20% of the OMV + $800 road tax ....
it goes on. No wonder the MRT is so shiny!
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"Pretty crappy cyclists going at 6mph, was it a trike?"
I would have thought that 6mph was a randomly low figure picked out of the air by the letter writer. She/he did say it was a race after all.
Posted 14 years ago # -
I suspect the choice of 6 mph was to sound nice against the 60 for the speed limit.
I'd write it like that but then I'd make a good deal more sense in the rest of the letter too.
Posted 14 years ago # -
...but would you write it in green crayon?
Posted 14 years ago # -
and spit and froth... don't forget the froth...
Posted 14 years ago # -
I'm reprinting that word for word in the next citycycling - that's just toooooooooo good.
Posted 14 years ago # -
"and spit and froth..."
dog or owner?
Posted 14 years ago # -
Wrong thread??
Posted 14 years ago # -
"Wrong thread??"
Oh yes!!!!
Was reading lunchtime's posts via rss and got confused!!
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