I haven't read Ms Hoey's rant so I don't want to comment on it in the other threads: I just wanted
to share a rather ironic anecdote.
Although I often see cyclists cruising through red lights, they never seem to create as much danger
in doing so than when motorists do the same thing. In fact, I've only ever seen one collision
caused by a cyclist ignoring a red light. This was at the Elephant in South London where a cyclist,
seemingly oblivious to all that was going on around her, simply ploughed into a group of
pedestrians crossing on, what to them, was a green light. The cyclist was not, as far as I could
tell, wearing lycra; she was, however, carrying in the basket of her sit-up-and-beg town bike, a
copy of the Daily Mail.
If I was the kind of person who found comfort in making some sense of a chaotic world by making wild
extrapolations on limited observations, I would conclude that all Mail readers should be kept off
the roads.
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Rob
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