Another reason to avoid cycle lanes

"wafflycat" <waffles*$*A**T*v21net$*££*D*O*T*co*D£$£*O*T*uk> wrote in
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See

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/4307300.stm

"Minitram scheme gets city moving"

Already posted at 11.40 by Colin Blackburn ...

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"wafflycat" <waffles*$*A**T*v21net$*££*D*O*T*co*D£$£*O*T*uk> wrote in
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See

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/4307300.stm

"Minitram scheme gets city moving"

Already posted at 11.40 by Colin Blackburn ...

Looks up and down threads on news reader....

Gosh, you are right. there it is down there ;-)

Cheers, helen s

wafflycat said:

See

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/4307300.stm

"Minitram scheme gets city moving"

"Bradford Council said the low-emission vehicle was narrow enough to travel
on historic roads that conventional buses could not use and could even share
wide cycle lanes."

yes indeed; the electronic transponder thingy could create all sorts of
havoc with one's odometer/ipod/pacemaker/electronic gear changer etc
etc.

Are they using some sort of Tardis technology?, I can't see 30 people
fitting in that thing. Why don't they just supply 30 free bikes? oh
yeah that's been tried already.

wafflycat said:

See

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/4307300.stm

"Minitram scheme gets city moving"

"Bradford Council said the low-emission vehicle was narrow enough to travel
on historic roads that conventional buses could not use and could even share
wide cycle lanes."

Maybe the article was written by Jeremy Parker (or someone in his evil
power) and "wide cycle lanes" is used as a synonym for "road". It
would make (a little) more sense

best wishes
james

On 4 Oct 2005 07:56:35 -0700 someone who may be "MartinM"
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yes indeed; the electronic transponder thingy could create all sorts of
havoc with one's odometer/ipod/pacemaker/electronic gear changer etc
etc.

More importantly the Railway Inspectorate has not been very keen on
electronic guidance in the UK. The buses to Peter Mandelson's folly
were supposed to be electronically guided, but this was abandoned
after a few "exciting" test runs. I don't think they have yet got it
working in France, but I have not kept up with that debacle.

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"wafflycat" <waffles*$*A**T*v21net$*££*D*O*T*co*D£$£*O*T*uk> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

See

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/4307300.stm

"Minitram scheme gets city moving"

"Bradford Council said the low-emission vehicle was narrow enough to
travel on historic roads that conventional buses could not use and could
even share wide cycle lanes."

Then the picture is deceptive. To use a 'wide cycle lane' it must be less
than 2 foot wide -- Shirley!!

T

David Hansen said:

On 4 Oct 2005 07:56:35 -0700 someone who may be "MartinM"
<[email hidden]> wrote this:-

Quoted message said:

yes indeed; the electronic transponder thingy could create all sorts of
havoc with one's odometer/ipod/pacemaker/electronic gear changer etc
etc.

More importantly the Railway Inspectorate has not been very keen on
electronic guidance in the UK. The buses to Peter Mandelson's folly
were supposed to be electronically guided, but this was abandoned
after a few "exciting" test runs. I don't think they have yet got it
working in France, but I have not kept up with that debacle.

the little HO buses in Faller towns on model railways seem to work OK,
but no bicycles to run over as it's Germany and such things are on the
compulsory cyclepath ;-)