{"id":2720,"date":"2021-03-15T14:37:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happycyclist.org\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2021-03-15T14:37:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:37:35","slug":"myth-cant-do-anything-here-its-a-40mph-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happycyclist.grahamecooper.com\/?p=2720","title":{"rendered":"Myth: “Can’t do anything here, it’s a 40mph road!”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This, which can be found referring to any speed limit, not just 40mph, was actually said by a councillor recently in an attempt to oppose a cycle lane on a wide main road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chorley New Road in Bolton<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As far as I know, there is no law of physics that determines that a road must have any particular speed limit (and I do have a PhD in physics). In fact, a simple calculation shows that reducing speed from 40mph to 30mph costs a maximum of 30 seconds per mile. On a 5 mile long road, that would be 2.5 minutes, even if it were possible to travel at the speed limit for the whole length, which it usually isn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compromising the safety of people on cycles and on foot – of children and elderly people – for the sake of delays that are in practice considerably less than 2.5 minutes seems like the action of a pyschopath, and at the very least is incredibly selfish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This, which can be found referring to any speed limit, not just 40mph, was actually said by a councillor recently in an attempt to oppose a cycle lane on a wide main road. As far as I know, there is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-myths"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happycyclist.grahamecooper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happycyclist.grahamecooper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happycyclist.grahamecooper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happycyclist.grahamecooper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happycyclist.grahamecooper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happycyclist.grahamecooper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happycyclist.grahamecooper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happycyclist.grahamecooper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happycyclist.grahamecooper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happycyclist.grahamecooper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}