British Servicemen Killed in Iraq in 2007: 24
Cyclists Killed on Britains Roads in 2007: 74*
Pedestrians Killed on Britains Roads in 2007: 336*
Wonder how bad it’s going to look by the end of the year?
* based on 2005 accident figures.
Greater Manchester Police are rightly blowing their own trumpet at succesfully convicting a young offender to 10 years for killing a cyclist in Leigh. John White has been sent down for ten years for the killing of Barry Hilton.
However there’s more to the tale, and it is telling about GMP performance and priorities.
“Throughout the day […]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1695668.ece
Samuri has finally cracked…
OOoh, I’ve finally decided to write a proper post about cars vs cyclists. There’s so much anti-cyclist shite being gandered about by the media and on the internet that I thought I’d do a bit of research.
And very well researched and forcefully argued it is too.
If you ride a bike you’ll know […]
Last week the car was in for some repairs after it was hit by a dog. Yes, you did read that right. Not hit a dog. Hit by a dog.
Anyway, back to the point. In lieu of car I commuted to work on two wheels instead, risking life and limb on autumn leaf mulch on […]
Finally a response from Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety
The issues you raise are a concern to all those involved in road safety and it is sensible that these are discussed at the correct forum.
They tell me to raise them at the cycle forum.
That’s a forum that the Highways designers have so far resolutely not attended. […]
In an attempt to enlighten them to their ignorance of anything to do with road safety outside of their blinkered speed kills viewpoint I recently asked the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety about their standpoint on the use of Stone Mastic Asphalt. As a motorcyclist and horserider the increasing use of this ‘hidden menace’ [1] […]
Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety officers have been pissing me off again lately with their ignorance. Ignorance of the needs of cyclists as road users that is.
And this time it’s not by plonking their big fat arses camera vans in the local cycle lanes. No, this time they are being too lazy to get out […]
No more
Seems that you can have an effect if you complain to the right people.
As of today the local Safety Partnership speed camera that parked not quite in but stupidly close to the local cycle lane is being replaced by a motorcyclist.
So, my next mission is to find out why these people have the […]
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New! iPod updating courtesy of iScrobbler.
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Remember kids, vinyl can't carry Digital Rights Management.
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For all that we like the up-to-the minute offerings of the web there‚s nothing like a proper badly photocopied A5 fanzine or a glossily printed proper magazine to keep you occupied on the throne. Here, in no particular order, is our material of choice.
In the UK as we give away our civil liberties in the name of freedom it might be handy to be aware of Photographers Rights.
Don’t let The Man stop you shooting.
If anyone has a full set of NEMBA results (that‚s North of England for you colonial types) then please forward them.
sometimes you just gotta take action, or at least be able to get our hands on the FACTS
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