A reminder needed?

Quoted message said:

Highways Agency area manager Roy Wood said:

"I wish it could be Christmas every day"

sorry I couldn't resist it.

MSeries said:

Quoted message said:

Highways Agency area manager Roy Wood said:

"I wish it could be Christmas every day"

sorry I couldn't resist it.

:-)

However, I bet this is the one Roy Wood who doesn't wish it!

Colin

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers said:

http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/daily-news/article.php?id=4999
Again, why only motorists?

<inserts advocaat firmly into devil and tongue firmly into cheek>

"Dear Cyclist,

Cyclists are advised to avoid cycling in the winter. It's far too
dangerous - if you slip on a patch of black ice, you might hold up one
of our gritters. If your journey is absolutely essential, wear a helmet
and push your bike all the way."

R.

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers said:

http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/daily-news/article.php?id=4999

Perhaps they're assuming cyclists will be using the exceptionally
well-gritted cycle paths? Perhaps not.

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers said:

See

http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/daily-news/article.php?id=4999

[...]

Quoted message said:

Again, why only motorists?

Because they are the ones who are going to get stuck in the snow when it
comes and the gritters get caught out. The cyclists can just cruise past
(carefully)

Colin

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:06:41 +0000, MSeries <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Highways Agency area manager Roy Wood said:

"I wish it could be Christmas every day"

sorry I couldn't resist it.

I think you now owe the other Mr Wood 40p.

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Colin Blackburn said:

Because they are the ones who are going to get stuck in the snow when
it comes and the gritters get caught out. The cyclists can just
cruise past (carefully)

There are questions in corners of my mind that lurk
Like "How do the road gritters get to work?"
Answer me that and you could win a cruise
Here's Judie Tzuke to take us up to the news

HMHB - "When The Evening Sun Goes Down"

--

Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
World Domination?
Just find a world that's into that kind of thing, then chain to the
floor and walk up and down on it in high heels. (Mr. Sunshine)

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers said:

See

http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/daily-news/article.php?id=4999

"Note to the Highways Agency: bicycles are vehicles too
In a press release announcing this winter's gritting programme and a hi-tech
approach to where black-ice may develop, the Highways Agency mentions this to
be of benefit to motorists only. What, so cyclists don't also use Britain's
road network in the winter months?
"At the first sign of snow and ice, gritters are mobilised to pre-salt the
country's strategic road network, to keep traffic flowing on these roads which
are essential to the country's economy," says the Highways Agency press
release.

All well and good. Cyclists are 'traffic' too and, in law, bicycles are
classified as 'vehicles'.

But then the release starts slipping and sliding on its own patches of
auto-centric black-ice:

[etc ...]

Probably for the very simple reason that the overwhelming majority of
miles traveled on the roads is done in motor vehicles? Because like it
or lump it we have the road system we have because of the requirements
of motor transport, irrespective of how justifiable that might be?

There are indeed plenty of reasons to be irritated by the
marginalisation (sp???) of cyclists on the road network, but failure by
the highways agency to mention them in a press release about winter
gritting seems a little on the picky side.

--
Trevor Barton

Dave Larrington said:

Colin Blackburn said:

Because they are the ones who are going to get stuck in the snow when
it comes and the gritters get caught out. The cyclists can just
cruise past (carefully)

There are questions in corners of my mind that lurk
Like "How do the road gritters get to work?"

Normal gritting is usually very early in the morning or overnight when
they have clear roads---it's not the snow that stops them but the
traffic stopped by the snow. Also, they position them in advance
depending on the time of day and weather forecast. Last year one problem
Durham had was that snow was forecast for the hills and so the gritters
and ploughs moved out of the city. The snow then fell in the city and
the ploughs couldn't get back in once the traffic jammed.

Colin

Trevor Barton said:

failure
by the highways agency to mention them in a press release about winter
gritting seems a little on the picky side.

Hey! They don't mention motorcyclists either!

Simonb said:

Trevor Barton said:

failure
by the highways agency to mention them in a press release about winter
gritting seems a little on the picky side.

Hey! They don't mention motorcyclists either!

TV weather forecasts do this too, wittering about driving conditions.
It would be so easy to substitute road conditions, and I once told
them so. No result, of course.

Colin McKenzie

--
The great advantage of not trusting statistics is that
it leaves you free to believe the damned lies instead!

Quoted message said:

Hey! They don't mention motorcyclists either!

No one ever mentions motorcycles, ever. Unless it's to [censored] about the
clowns doing 150mph on every straight longer than 300yds, or else to
[censored] about kids on stolen bikes. Or trailriders...

But never, ever will you see people mention motorcycles as though they
were reasonable, valid methods of transport.

bfn,

Tony B

Dave Larrington popped their head over the parapet saw what was going
on and said

Quoted message said:

There are questions in corners of my mind that lurk
Like "How do the road gritters get to work?"
Answer me that and you could win a cruise
Here's Judie Tzuke to take us up to the news

Quoted message said:

HMHB - "When The Evening Sun Goes Down"

When I was in the TA, one of the chaps there was a council
worker, during the winter he was a gritter driver . At the end
of a lecture there was the usual "any questions" which of course
solicited the replies "why is orange jam called marmalade ?"
and "how does the guy who drives the snow plough get to his
work?" to which this chap supplied the very boring answer
"actually I get a lift".

--
yours S

Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione