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Jan 2017
5:08pm, 5 Jan 2017
4,538 posts
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Markymarkmark
[ RS, sadly most of those things have an equivalent as a cyclist or a motorist too... (I'm normally a cyclist or a pedestrian, BTW).
A little of it is to do with lack of funds to fix stuff. Most of it is to do with an assumption that Cars are Important and Deserve to be Put First.
Obvs a load of tosh!]
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Jan 2017
5:10pm, 5 Jan 2017
4,539 posts
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Markymarkmark
Project managers who think it's okay to drive a coach and horses through the Change Restriction in place to protect the rest of the business.
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Jan 2017
7:15pm, 5 Jan 2017
19,721 posts
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Red Squirrel
I'm also a cyclist and a motorist. I just feel vulnerable pedestrians should have priority over cars. There are plenty of people who use cars for silly short journeys, then moan about congestion.
I get your point about cars being important. Until we collect a lot of revenue from the manufacture of shoes; governments want give a stuff about walkers.
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Jan 2017
8:24pm, 5 Jan 2017
32,378 posts
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Fleecing Bells
Hear hear on that RS. I ran to a big M and S near me the other day, it was actually quite difficult getting there on foot as the path ran out at the entrance. The cycle rack is also as far away from the entrance as possible. I spent £50, probably as much as any of the miserable gits taking up expensive land out the front of the shop. I'm costing almost nothing to cater for and yet they ignore me because it doesn't occur to them that people might not drive to their shop. I might email them, after all their Plan B bollocks.
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Jan 2017
7:31am, 6 Jan 2017
4,926 posts
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Jono.
plan B has always been bollocks according to Mrs J (23 years and counting @ M&S :-0)
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Jan 2017
8:04am, 6 Jan 2017
32,381 posts
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Fleecing Bells
Yeah, greenwash and unconvincing
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Jan 2017
10:08am, 6 Jan 2017
4,543 posts
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Markymarkmark
Idiots who think it's okay to cycle on a pitch black cycle path without lights.
Idiots who think its a good idea to ride on the pavement with lights, and on the road without them.
Actually - just idiots. Feeling misanthropic today. 
[Greenwash". What a wonderful expression. Stolen!]
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Jan 2017
12:54pm, 6 Jan 2017
19,723 posts
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Red Squirrel
Yes it is a wonderful expression.
Waitrose near me used to hire out (for free) things to go on the back of bicycles to take your shopping home in. The kind of thing with wheels that you put kids and dogs in. They no longer have them, but do have about 20 bike racks outside the front of the store which are well-used.
I occasionally used to cycle or run to a large out of town centre to get items. The roads were so scary with crazy, angry traffic and pavements disappearing that I gave up doing that. It's called Cribbs Causeway. I'm a reasonably brave cyclist who holds her position in the road, but the roundabouts were no place for bicycles and that's wrong.
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Jan 2017
1:18pm, 6 Jan 2017
4,545 posts
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Markymarkmark
Ooh, I've run around Cribbs Causeway. Lost myself on the Bristol Cycle network in the dark, trying to get back to the Travelodge!
Most of my Bristol colleagues still drive but leave early or late to avoid the rush. I keep telling them they are the rush!
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Jan 2017
1:52pm, 6 Jan 2017
947 posts
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fraggle
Being stuck in traffic jams on dark winter nights - is no-one capable of using a bloody handbrake? I dont really wanted to be dazzled by your brakes lights thank-you
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