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Bob From Accounts 🚲
Bob From Accounts 🚲@BobFromAccounts·
The kindness of strangers Love the NHS. Love London. Love Londoners A thread : I've been cycling daily in London for over 25 years. A couple of weeks back, shit happened. No idea how or why, in a split second, over the handlebars, I face-planted at speed into Shoreditch High St
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Bob From Accounts 🚲@BobFromAccounts·
@PincherMartin8 @ClarkeMicah So I give you TFL stats on unnecessary private car journeys and you immediately jump to the car brain analogy, excuses and get defensive. Next, you'll be telling me all these journeys are essential because everyone is carrying a fridge, the weekly shop, and six family members.
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Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin@PincherMartin8·
You're great at changing the subject. You were just telling me that driver falsely believe a car is convenient. Now you wish to discuss externalities. I don't believe you are competent enough to discuss either one of these topics, but certainly not what is to the drivers' convenience, unless you think you can mind-meld with them.
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Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens@ClarkeMicah·
The ridiculous overuse of cars (a 3000 lb vehicle carring a 180 lb person) has obliterated a huge amount of other forms of travel, especially by children. Not just trains. Trams, bicycle , foot . And they have led to towns in which simple journeys have become far longer, as they are designed with drivers in mind .@182_dunch
Dunc H@182_DuncH

@ClarkeMicah Mathematically, lines times the number of trains. Car travel freed the plebs from their slums; trains are a backward step.

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Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin@PincherMartin8·
This is an old complaint, and a boring one. Cars are individualistic. But they don't just carry individuals. They carry families, friends, acquaintances, co-workers, even teams (if large enough), etc. They also carry goods, papers, workout clothes, suitcases, groceries, etc. The notion they exist just to carry the weight of an individual is contradicted by experience every day. Some people work out of their cars. Cars were common when you were a child, even in the stodgy England of your youth. They didn't stop people from walking. Cars were also common in my youth, and we children managed to walk everywhere. The lack of ambulation today is not due to cars.
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Bob From Accounts 🚲
Bob From Accounts 🚲@BobFromAccounts·
Parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday for free in the West End needs to end. Pay for your privilege and the unnecessary congestion you cause.
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Francesca 🚲💕@francesca_kms·
Absolutely this 👇 here’s another example. These “part-time” cycle lanes, where cars can park in them on Sundays and in the evenings… basically defeat the whole purpose. And just to be clear: paint isn’t infrastructure.
Bob From Accounts 🚲@BobFromAccounts

Parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday for free in the West End needs to end. Pay for your privilege and the unnecessary congestion you cause.

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Yeah But Cyclists
Yeah But Cyclists@but_cyclists·
"to all the trolls that dislike my pop and bang online" It's not trolls. It's everyone. Every single person fucking hates your stupid sounding car.
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Yeah But Cyclists
Yeah But Cyclists@but_cyclists·
Can anyone highlight the precise moment when people started thinking that regular cars making fart noises and sounding like they are broken is cool and something the public actually enjoy? Personally I think this sounds fucking awful, but then again I'm not a total wanker.
Greg N@n00dles71

He rattles down the London street Crackling exhaust and restless feet Engine screams at every light A desperate song into the night Some men chase with noise and speed The things their ego thinks they need He flaunts a big car to mask defeat But his tiny dick will never compete

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Urban Cycling Institute 🚲 
'Don't build bicycle paths', they said. 'Cycling will never work here', they said. 'This is London, not Amsterdam', they said. ↗️ 43% increase in cycling since 2019 📈 1.5 million bike trips per day 🚲 From niche to mainstream (🎞️ of London🇬🇧 by @euklidiadas)
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Timbo
Timbo@timbo_61·
@BobFromAccounts Hopefully people will vote to stop the spread of unnecessary blanket 20 mph zones. Nothing wrong with 20’s around schools but these should also be time-fenced. Sorry Bob, but just because you like (and can) cycle doesn’t mean everyone else has to
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Bob From Accounts 🚲@BobFromAccounts·
People should absolutely be penalised for driving in London. Speeding kills, pollution kills, and LTNs make everything safer. Driving a private vehicle is selfish and has consequences for everyone around you.
Laila Cunningham@policylaila

Family, Community, Country…and cars. Whether it’s blanket 20mph ,ULEZ or LTNs, people feel penalised just for driving, people don’t see safety they see a system that’s fleecing them! End the racket on May 7.

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Tref
Tref@climbtechy·
@BobFromAccounts LTNs create congestion on boundary roads harming people who live on those roads
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Marc Fetiveau
Marc Fetiveau@marcfetiveau·
@BobFromAccounts Also a wide spread epidemic is cyclists on phones and using headphones. Never even disciplined for it
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Yeah But Cyclists@but_cyclists·
Has any cyclist in the UK ever done a cycling offence that would have warranted life imprisonment?
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