"Urban cycling has many health benefits. Don't let the pollution put you off, says Tom Leonard There is a nagging doubt that grips everyone who ever decides to put foot to pedal and venture on to the streets of a British city on a bicycle. Will this constitute a health trip or quite the opposite? To be more precise, will I roll up energised and exercised or will I roll up in Accident and Emergency?"
Good article over all, looking mainly at the David Newby study the Times used as a scare tactic :-)
Good article over all, looking mainly at the David Newby study the Times used as a scare tactic :-)
There was also a piece in the science section in last Thursday's Guardian which countered the Times scare story by pointing out that car drivers are at much higher risk from the effects of pollution than cyclists. (It probably helps that the Guardian journalist actually spoke to David Newby rather than just looking for the most controversial angle.)
Good article over all, looking mainly at the David Newby study the Times used as a scare tactic :-)
There was also a piece in the science section in last Thursday's Guardian which countered the Times scare story by pointing out that car drivers are at much higher risk from the effects of pollution than cyclists.
So, er, that leaves walking as the really healthy option. -- Iain Archer To email, please use Reply-To address
Good article over all, looking mainly at the David Newby study the Times used as a scare tactic :-)
There was also a piece in the science section in last Thursday's Guardian which countered the Times scare story by pointing out that car drivers are at much higher risk from the effects of pollution than cyclists. (It probably helps that the Guardian journalist actually spoke to David Newby rather than just looking for the most controversial angle.)
Who did that? Revoke their NUJ card, I say. Next they'll stop being sensationalist, and where will we end up? I tell you where we'll end up: Dead under a pile of asylum-seeking red light jumping gatso operating cyclists. That's what'll happen.
Who did that? Revoke their NUJ card, I say. Next they'll stop being sensationalist, and where will we end up? I tell you where we'll end up: Dead under a pile of asylum-seeking red light jumping gatso operating cyclists. That's what'll happen.
Twice in the last month I've seen newspapers with stories about the public being misled by ...erm not us guv! One was all the fantastic fabrications around the Piano Man who all the newspapers reported as a virtuoso pianist but if you believe their latest reports, was someone who couldn't play a note. The other was the Menezes shooting where the newspapers complaints about police misinformation all seemed to track back to "eye witness" accounts carried by .... erm the newspapers.
To be honest, I've given up reading them except as works of fiction.
-- Tony
"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't" Anon
Good article over all, looking mainly at the David Newby study the Times used as a scare tactic :-)
There was also a piece in the science section in last Thursday's Guardian which countered the Times scare story
Hmmm, that's almost rather encouraging really ... The times publishes a pile of steaming [censored], whereupon both grauniad and torygraph effectively rubbish it by publishing more balanced versions of the same story.
Good article over all, looking mainly at the David Newby study the Times used as a scare tactic :-)
There was also a piece in the science section in last Thursday's Guardian which countered the Times scare story by pointing out that car drivers are at much higher risk from the effects of pollution than cyclists.
So, er, that leaves walking as the really healthy option.
Where you're exposed to the same amount of pollution as the cyclist, but for longer. Wouldn't the really sensible thing in urban areas be to remove the principal cause of the pollution? Then everyone would be healthier.
"However, Newby also pointed out that drivers faced an even bigger risk, as car ventilation systems suck in air at ground level, which is even more polluted."
That's quite a generalisation, is it not? The intake on a Peugeot 206, for instance, is on top of the bonnet.
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To be honest, I've given up reading them except as works of fiction.
I have considered them thus since 1987, when working for British Wasteofspace. We were suspended without pay by the management, and all the media reported it as a strike, even after they were informed otherwise.
