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Greater Manchester Police – Time to Act!
OK, this is getting ridiculous now. I wasn’t intending to turn my police complaint into an open letter, but recent events convince me that it’s well past time to get serious about this. Back in February, I wrote about police … Continue reading
GM Police Again Refuse to Deal With Aggressive Drivers – Episode 2
A week days ago, I posted an article about the Greater Manchester Police Force’s refusal to deal with driving that is deliberately dangerous or intimidating. It happens that I was also, whilst writing that, reporting another incident in which a … Continue reading
GM Police still refusing to deal with aggressive drivers.
Last week, I had occasion to report two different instances of aggressive driving – road rage, in fact. The two incidents are shown in the following videos (I will refer to them by the registration numbers of the vehicles involved): … Continue reading
Why do you … ride in the middle from Higher Bridge Street to Bank Street, Bolton?
This post is about a short length of my commuting route that involves going through three traffic light controlled junctions in succession and includes a short section of road that, due to its width, appears to be appropriate for lane … Continue reading
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Pull the other one David.
Greater Manchester is a large county that has a population, at the 2011 census, of about 2.7 million. It is one of the major winners of the Government’s Cycling City Ambition Grants, with a grant of £20 million over two … Continue reading
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Heartily sick of these pathetic anti-cyclist attitudes.
There is a certain type of person who refuses to accept the responsibility that comes with being in charge of a tonne or more of powerful, dangerous machinery in a public place, and tries to justify their disgusting attitude by … Continue reading
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Let’s stop just treating (one of) the symptoms.
In a recent discussion about the appalling designs for Salford’s part of Greater Manchester’s Cycling City Ambition Grant project, Velocity 2025, I was prompted to think again about the lack of holistic thinking that seems to exist among many well-meaning … Continue reading
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Neither one nor t’Other! (Salford’s proposed Cycle Infrastructure.)
Salford City Council has published the plans for their share of the Greater Manchester’s “Cycle City Ambition Grant”, otherwise know as Velicity 2025. It seems the consultation on the first of three “packages” closed yesterday. Unfortunately I missed that as … Continue reading
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Why do you … ride in the middle of the f*****g road through Farnworth?
I sometimes get problems with aggressive drivers when riding through Farnworth so, in response to an ignorant driver who tried to “educate” me about cycling road positions, despite his having no training or experience, here is an example giving chapter … Continue reading
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A response to a well-meaning, but ill-informed driver.
Three days ago, a driver in Bristol posted a video that has got quoted in the local press. This driver was aggrieved because his car was damaged by someone who was unable to be traced. I can understand why he … Continue reading
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