| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Tree Murdered for 'experimental' cycleway. | |
| Posted by: | Michael Adams | |
| Date/Time: | 04/12/21 12:50:00 |
| Tom Pike suggested " In fact the protected cycleways which have led to cycling dominating travel In the City also lead to a higher proportion of women cycling. The two obviously go together!" Er no. More women work in the city to start with. Crowded public transport is always more uncomfortable for women, for obvious reasons, and when coupled with restricted parking they have few other options except for expensive taxis. As it happens even before the age of cars, women were cycling pioneers embracing the new sense of FREEDOM it gave them. Protected cycleways most likely have very little to do with it, when you come to think about it. As it happens around 50% of the cyclists I saw heading Eastwards along Uxbridge Rd yesterday morning in the dark - along the road not on the undulating cycle track, were women. You've done your best Tom, not that much worse than any of the others anyway. But you're now down to 5ft 6in, Very soon it will be too deep for you to climb out unaided. michael adams |