| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Am I going mad or are zebra crossings getting more dangerous? | |
| Posted by: | Diane Brown | |
| Date/Time: | 10/12/24 09:08:00 |
| I looked at the number of hit and runs in London each year and it is around 3,000. This is obviously a bad thing and a far more serious issue than what we are talking about here. However, you can't say to people don't talk about matters that concern you because there are worse things to worry about just because it is a subject you don't want people to discuss. In this day and age middle class women of a certain age are much less likely to accept being told by men that their concerns aren't worth bothering with. I find it much harder to cross the road in the town in which I live in recent times. The changes that have been made are challenging for lots of people. Your defensiveness is down to your paranoia about any point that might reflect negatively on cyclists as being personally directed against you but they are not. As I said earlier in this thread most regular pedal cyclists are courteous and pose no problem. The main cause of increased anxiety for people like me is delivery riders who are obviously under time pressure, young people on electric hire bikes and others on obviously illegal conveyances that have no speed limiters. If you have nothing to add about how the problem that these people present in the centre of Chiswick could be tackled, perhaps you should absent yourself from this discussion or at the very least abstain from sidetracking it with irrelevances. |