tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828166865647185633.post3177989865761965154..comments2024-03-27T11:51:03.366+00:00Comments on The Ranty Highwayman: Words Of EncouragementThe Ranty Highwaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361350433158148025noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828166865647185633.post-75376903393743368862016-11-14T09:50:12.917+00:002016-11-14T09:50:12.917+00:00Would the bacon roll largely negate the health ben...Would the bacon roll largely negate the health benefits of the daily commute on a bicycle?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828166865647185633.post-46791104239702292022016-11-13T05:29:08.821+00:002016-11-13T05:29:08.821+00:00Remember that heroin video I sent you on twitter, ...Remember that heroin video I sent you on twitter, how legal that is in Canada? I think it's somewhat related. You don't OD or get a disease or fund criminals while you get medical grade stuff until you learn via the counseling and help programs they have to live without the addiction. It's your choice when you might quit, but until you do, at least you're not dead and Sinola Cartel doesn't get an extra pence off of you. It's actually why I'm in favor of legalizing even hard drugs. <br /><br />Closing a road for a day for a mass ride is nice, but it only works for that day when the traffic lights are able to be irrelevant to your average speed and when other traffic isn't there to intimidate you. Only when you have a Dutch system where the motor traffic is kept away either by being in low volumes or you having your own independent pathway that goes to the same places that the car lanes do that cycling becomes popular, this happens all over the world, Vancouver has lots of cycling where they build protected junctions and cycle tracks, pretty much no cycling where they haven't gotten around to it, NYC has quite a few cyclists, but practically none where there are motor cars if there is no cycle track, London too, CS3 is popular but probably not the high street next to your home Mark. In Assen NL, the shared space makes you feel comfortable when it's the middle of the night or day when there's hardly any traffic but people avoid it or turn to the footway during peak hours when there is traffic. It happens REGARDLESS of who is cycling, where, what their origin, nationality, age, capabilities, etc, are. Multiparty Democracy Todayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13359081992141220593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1828166865647185633.post-60735461376279189932016-11-12T20:34:03.376+00:002016-11-12T20:34:03.376+00:00I do wonder if this approach (encouragement) is a ...I do wonder if this approach (encouragement) is a very UK-centric approach, filed alongside 'the carrot and the stick' to try and cover our usual half-arsed approach to problems.<br /><br />My limited knowledge of them (the D*tch) suggests their modal shift was entirely a matter of 'carrot', or enabling. If 'the stick' was employed it was only by way of making certain journeys longer and more convoluted by car; no fines, no taxes on poor behaviour or other punitive measures we would undoubtedly resort to. It was simply about letting human beings make their own informed decisions by giving them a rational choice of transport modes. Right now, in most of the UK, that choice is unavailable and so the inherently weak approaches of 'encouragement' or 'carrot and stick' - a bacon roll versus workplace parking charges (which, whatever their aim, come across as just more LA venality) - is all we have.<br /><br />AndyRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com