Best way to travel 5 miles to a train station?

Please, sir, I do, actually. Or at least the bit from my frontage up to a
point about 18" from the middle of the road. There's a ransome strip to the
left owned by the house on the end of the terrace opposite, and the right of
way down the middle is owned by the house at the end of the road. Oh, and
the rear access belongs to a house in Hemdean Road, but with a right of way
running over it.

Comes under the "should have thought of that earlier" heading, IMO

I live 15 minutes walk or about 5 minutes ride from the station. Less if I
hit the traffic lights right.

Guy
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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington
University

 

ITYM people's precious bodies.

A

 

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Bloody freeloader. If you want services for the aged and infirm then
pay for them yourself. Why should the rest of us have to subsidise your
needs!

</parody>

Tony

 

None of which will every get a speeding ticket, or even stopped for
blatently breaking the law infront of a (admitably rare) police officer.

 

Alas not. Look at the relative severity of the punishments for slashing car
tyres and killing a cyclist.

Guy
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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington
University

 

Are we in Italy? Or cloud cukoo land?

Using it how exactly? Only time I've ever seen a car using a pavement
illegally is in quiet residential streets up north, although that has
changed in recent years, which did occasionally force wheelchair users
(not that there were any on the streets I can think of) into the quiet
road (1 car every 10 minutes normally, 1 car a minute peak)

 

Wheelchair users?

Presumably parents with pushchairs/prams magically manage to get past then?

 

Perhaps so, but then what would road maintenece be if the only people
using them walked?

 

Wow - this argument of yours has been completely destroyed,
in public, and yet you still continue with it. And you want
to give advice on having a "credible voice"...

 

Tony Raven () gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

How much more would it cost than introducing parking discs, then
discontinuing them, then painting lots of lines on the road?

All with regular changes of signs and plenty of paperwork, of course.

None of that's free.

Besides, what's the point in changing the parking regs if they're not going
to be enforced? Sensible parking enforcement round here would not only get
the council some brownie points in the view of many residents (and they
need some at the moment), but it might actually prove to be revenue-
positive.

 

If it's too dangerous you need to learn how to ride a bike safely in
traffic. A mirror helps a lot. If you need a shower in summer then
either you're cycling too fast, wearing too much, or need to lose a
lot of weight.

 

Can't you just fly?

 

None of which will every get a speeding ticket, or even stopped for
blatently breaking the law infront of a (admitably rare) police officer.

 

Given the number of cars is more then 300 times the number of bikes, you
are more likely to be hit by a specific bike then a specific car.

 

Adrian wrote

I think the mistake you are making is looking for some form of logic in
Council decision making.

Tony

 

Tony Raven () gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Indeed - an MPH one instead of a KPH one, since 65km = 40miles...

 

Of course those that work nights in the middle of London dont have much of
a choice. Somebodys got to do it, unless you think that the NHS should
only run 8-8, TV should stop after Eastenders, shops shouldn't have fresh
bread in the morning, etc.
True, they (shift workers) could live in some squallorous bedsit on the
edge of a council estate for £200k and risk their lives walking back
through the drug dens, but why should they?

I've got no problem stoning the 9-5 (or even 9-9) idiots in London that
think they are justified driving their 4x4's on the school run, but the
police that are still working at 2AM after dealing with the lager louts at
kicking out time want to get home with no fuss or bother.

Of course as there's no traffic at 2AM (and little at 2PM or 4 PM for a
12/10 hour shift), there's no problem. Unless it's in the congestion charge
zone where they have to pay £5 even though they dont drive in the
congested hours.

And while you and I have a (taxed) taxi home (up to a certain time) after the
trains stop, many late workers dont have that luxury.

 

Cycling gently should be less effort than walking, and also more of a
breeze to help you not sweat. You should be able to cycle without
sweating on days when you couldn't ealk without sweating, wearing the
same clothes.

 

Velvet () gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

No, it's not. Nobody pays VED on a bicycle, so bicycles contribute nothing
to the exchequer.

Whether you ALSO pay VED for a car is irrelevant, since VED is vehicle
based not personal.

 

Actually that's wrong, I know of several cyclists who have been stopped
and cautioned.

But then, they don't stop most of the cars breaking the limit either.
(And there are *way* more of them.)