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Drivers will be delighted with that measure, since if you want to kill cycling, that's the way to go about it. They did that in Australia, resulting in that country having the lowest rate of cycling in the world. .

Probably thinking of the VED (road tax) exemption for over 40 year old cars. .

There is undeniably a shortage of workers here in the UK. However, a very large number of vacancies are in unskilled and very low skilled occupations in the Agricultural, Care, Hospitality and even the NHS sectors. So why do our 2600 food banks have well over 2.1 million customers who have no...

Trouble is of course, just like the town 20 limits they can't be and won't be policed. As the police have already announced, saying it will rely on the co-operation of road users. .

Perhaps they are going out of fashion. In the scorcher we've just been enduring for a week or so in the South East, I haven't seen a single pair being worn. .

Suitably elevated to 4 x 4 windscreen height:

In fairness he actually did good when first appointed Transport Minister. He nationalised Northern Rail to prevent any more of their shambles, adding a warning shot across the bows of the industry that they wouldn't necessarily be the last rail company to go that way. He went onto confirm...

Yes, SOME people, a very few, may need them at limited times. But the great majority of sunglasses are worn as a fashion statement. Hence the joke that Italian men are born with them. Quote: "You should avoid wearing sunglasses during all the daylight hours, as it will block the beneficial...

He won't be able to introduce it. Government policy left and right wing is to increase cycling. so this idea will die as soon as the leadership election is over and cabinet ministers chosen. Shapps statement was just positioning himself for a job, whoever becomes leader. .

Well we've got plenty of plant based meats now. I'm wondering how long it will be before we can have meat based vegetables on our plates. .

And no longer all true. .

I agree, they are unlikely to do anything which inhibits cycling. But it wouldn't need the extra cameras in London since we already have the congestion charge and larger area emission charge zone cameras that are already multi purpose. Likewise the large number of the newer automated speed...

There can be an element of that driving in rush hour commuting, but it certainly doesnt stop people cycling. Just look up the many videos and stills of London cycle commuting on the web. According to the GLC there are just short of three-quarters of a million cycle trips every day in London...

No, wouldn't be any problem, especially if presented as a desirable safety measure keeping cyclists away from motor vehicle danger wherever there are detached cycle paths. It already happens with motor vehicles, lanes or even whole roads restricted to a limited range of vehicles, not meaning...

I was speaking of Andy's proposal, affecting where the most traffic is, like here around South London. We have numerous cyclepaths and shared paths, but hardly any cyclists use them due to their conditions and circumstances. .

An amusing idea, but only until the government responded by enforcing cycle path usage by law, making on road cycling illegal everywhere there is a cyclepath or shared path alongside. .

What a weird thing to say, all ages up into the sixties commute into London, not just young people. So I was illustrating that most do so using public transport. As someone who has cycled lifelong I welcome that cycling, but I don't delude myself as you are doing. That video emphatically...

. Sorry but no, that is a proven myth. The fact is that they were forced onto bicycles, first by the congestion charge very long ago, then by the added Ultra Low Pollution Zone charge. And as I've previously pointed out, most of the movement to escape the charges wasn't onto bikes but into...

I actually worked this out based on your suggested 20,000 litres lost through leakage per day. In my case that would mean they would be charging for the disposal of 56 times my normal total water usage, recorded during the last 31 years in my retirement. It further means 98.3% of all the water...

Unlikely perhaps. But parts of Britain have already had bicycle rear number plates and registration that worked well and was happily accepted by the population. In the Channel Islands, Guernsey had that scheme until the 1940s at least. Beyond that the rented bicycles in Cambridge in the...