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//UK Government spend on cycling per head of population is £1.60. Holland spends £26. //

yes, but that could have something to do with the historically different attitude to cycling in the Netherlands....
https://bicycledutch.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/tilburg-central-station-2009.jpg
Down here there are a few ‘cycle lanes’ but they’re each about 20 metres long sporadically on an A road.
mushroom25

Why do the Dutch have a different attitude?

Could it be that by investing 25 times the funds that the UK does (Over many decades), that their roads are not death traps?
// Could it be that by investing 25 times the funds that the UK does (Over many decades), that their roads are not death traps? //

or could it be simply that the geography of the country means that cycling is accessible to all and not just the lycra clad iron men?
Cloverjo

Painting a Red strip on the side of a road is not creating a cycle network.

https://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/short-cycle-path.jpg

//UK Government spend on cycling per head of population is £1.60. Holland spends £26.//

And long may it stay that way.

//Could it be that by investing 25 times the funds that the UK does (Over many decades), that their roads are not death traps?//

I've been to Amsterdam once and I would never go again. The place is an absolute nightmare. I don't know much about Dutch roads outside the capital but the city is simply unusable for pedestrians. All the photographs you see of the small iron bridges crossing the canals must have been taken before the bicycle was invented. Every one of them has cycles chained together five deep along each pavement. If you want to cross the bridge you have to walk in the road. Guess what happens to you then? You are very lucky if you do not get hit by bikes speeding at you from both directions. Crossing the main road from the railway station into the middle of the city presents three problems: trams, cars and (surprise, surprise) more bikes. They come at you in the road, on the pavements, on the footpaths. Every available set of railings fences or lamp posts is used to chain up unused bikes. You cannot get near some shops; many bars and restaurants have their entrances obstructed by chained up bikes. If spending more money encourages more cycles into London it will become similarly off-limits for many. I'd rather the government kept my £24.40 and spent it on something sensible.
Gromit, that’s exactly what I was talking about.
Plenty of cycle lanes here, proper ones not just lines - they are sparsely used.

We are not a cycling nation and the Lycra mob will put many off even thinking about it.

The Netherlands has a quite different geography that is more suitable to cycling.
We have a different mentality though. We like the pain!
:-)
Thats only when some *** nicks your saddle and you have to ride home remembering not to sit down!

Happened to one of my brothers :-)
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well how about the government subsidizing Gyms ?
with that £24 .

kill two birds with one stone
So much easier to fund a cycle network when you can get someone to go Dutch.
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or kill two stone for one bird ?

Am I Right ?
I'm Not Wrong !
I trust patients will be expressing their disappointment and dissatisfaction at the prescription directly to their GP, and hopefully to their MP. Cycling is a dangerous activity and folk should be being dissuaded from indulging not encouraged nor forced to participate.
Welcome to the Government’s latest ill thought out gimmick.
If you don’t get crushed to death by a bus at the next road Junction then this Is a great boost against obesity.

Not sure our rotund PM is the best person to lead this campaign. Cummings has probably told Boris he is emaciated after 2 weeks of nil by mouth in hospital, and the fat fool believes him. I won’t be taking slimming tips from a man with such an hefty majority :-)
Readyfor a flurry of 'so you think' stuff from his AB cheering section then, Gromit?
Isn’t it strange how someone can take the idea of prescribing cycling as a health benefit to mean Halfords can take prescriptions and that there are £££££ being invested in cycling infrastructure. Baffling.
It is rather ironic that shops and businesses which have cried foul for years about traffic calming, bring unable to see the problem in terms of air quality and therefore health, are now seeing the consequences to their trade of a more urgent health emergency.
Doesn’t make the other one any less of an issue though
.// I won’t be taking slimming tips//

Don't blame you, gromit. Concentrate on your maths.

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