Prudential Bike Road Closure Fail
Discussion
swerni said:
Because a couple people suffer we shouldn't run such events?
I assume this runs to non cycling events?
At least be honest about it. You couldn't give a toss about mrs miggins and her walking sticks, you just hate cyclists.
You're about as wrong as wrong gets about my views and motives and your disregard for the plight of others because they're in a minority is an absolute disgrace. I assume this runs to non cycling events?
At least be honest about it. You couldn't give a toss about mrs miggins and her walking sticks, you just hate cyclists.
el stovey said:
mybrainhurts said:
You're about as wrong as wrong gets about my views and motives and your disregard for the plight of others because they're in a minority is an absolute disgrace.
You're always banging on about cyclists. It's been going on for years.
I have a bicycle, by the way.
mybrainhurts said:
I have a bicycle, by the way.
Superb! - recently there has been a long organised ride the first weekend of august where you ride through london and the Surrey hills > back to london - well worth you entering the ballot - it makes for a lovely day out, despite all of the traffic...
mybrainhurts said:
swerni said:
Because a couple people suffer we shouldn't run such events?
I assume this runs to non cycling events?
At least be honest about it. You couldn't give a toss about mrs miggins and her walking sticks, you just hate cyclists.
You're about as wrong as wrong gets about my views and motives and your disregard for the plight of others because they're in a minority is an absolute disgrace. I assume this runs to non cycling events?
At least be honest about it. You couldn't give a toss about mrs miggins and her walking sticks, you just hate cyclists.
h like that. The chances that someone is going to be unable to work for three days is slim. As is the likelihood that pensioner Pat and her equally incapacitated husband will return home on the exact day of the event AND be affected by the closures. But no matter when the event is run, it is going to inconvenience someone. It's inevitable. Most people find a way to deal with it that doesn't involve sitting in a car at the point of closure, revving the nuts off their engine and chewing their fingers down to the knuckles for the duration of the closure.Think of all the poor folks of Bournemouth, who won't be able to park anywhere near the town to shop and attend appointments for a three day weekend in the summer, because there's an 'Air Festival' and flying display at the beach. The clifftop roads were closed earlier in the year, for a motoring event. As a PistonHeader, and therefore, presumably, a petrolhead, where was your bleeding heart for that event? On the side of the poor inconvenienced residents? Or at the barriers along the road, rejoicing in the sights, sounds, and smells of high performance motorcars?
Twice a year large parts of Sussex are a no-go area for anyone not attending Lord March's regular events. I didn't see any of the signs in the weeks leading up to it, but I knew not to try to visit Chichester on FoS weekend. And what of horseracing? Bloody Royal Bloody Ascot is a right royal pain in the arse, every single bloody year! Traffic is a nightmare, maniacal limo drivers take over the roads, drunken orange slappers hanging out of the sunroofs flashing their saggy old titties. Once every two years Farnborough gets royally f
ked up by 'fatcat' industry types on jollies for the airshow. That bad boy lasts a fortnight, and in the past even saw 'limo lanes' introduced, with fines for non air show traffic using them. The Olympic Games saw many dual carriageways reduced to single lanes, with draconian punishments for drivers wandering into the 'official car' lane too early at the roundabout. Speed limit reductions too. I could go on. Gay Pride? That's Brighton fked up for a day at least. Notting Hill Carnival? Same there, and the costs to clear up after the "revellers" is immense. Ban it, I say!I'm a music fan. Reading Festival? Carnage on the roads of a busy city centre, and even the pavements are "gridlocked" at times. Isle of White festival? You can only get there by ferry, so if they're full of hairy students flaked out after a weekend of cider and 'legal highs' you can't get to the mainland. Residents must hate all of these events, especially if they, personally, are unable to profit from them. Pick a venue, pick an event, it's always going to be the same. Silverstone. British Grand Prix. Gridlock. Unhappy locals. But still they go ahead.
"You can't please all of the people all of the time." It was ONE day, FFS. And the organisers deliberately chose a Sunday. "What was that? There's a burglar in the house" Go back to sleep dear, there's nothing to see here...
yellowjack said:
mybrainhurts said:
swerni said:
Because a couple people suffer we shouldn't run such events?
I assume this runs to non cycling events?
At least be honest about it. You couldn't give a toss about mrs miggins and her walking sticks, you just hate cyclists.
You're about as wrong as wrong gets about my views and motives and your disregard for the plight of others because they're in a minority is an absolute disgrace. I assume this runs to non cycling events?
At least be honest about it. You couldn't give a toss about mrs miggins and her walking sticks, you just hate cyclists.
h like that. The chances that someone is going to be unable to work for three days is slim. As is the likelihood that pensioner Pat and her equally incapacitated husband will return home on the exact day of the event AND be affected by the closures. But no matter when the event is run, it is going to inconvenience someone. It's inevitable. Most people find a way to deal with it that doesn't involve sitting in a car at the point of closure, revving the nuts off their engine and chewing their fingers down to the knuckles for the duration of the closure.Think of all the poor folks of Bournemouth, who won't be able to park anywhere near the town to shop and attend appointments for a three day weekend in the summer, because there's an 'Air Festival' and flying display at the beach. The clifftop roads were closed earlier in the year, for a motoring event. As a PistonHeader, and therefore, presumably, a petrolhead, where was your bleeding heart for that event? On the side of the poor inconvenienced residents? Or at the barriers along the road, rejoicing in the sights, sounds, and smells of high performance motorcars?
Twice a year large parts of Sussex are a no-go area for anyone not attending Lord March's regular events. I didn't see any of the signs in the weeks leading up to it, but I knew not to try to visit Chichester on FoS weekend. And what of horseracing? Bloody Royal Bloody Ascot is a right royal pain in the arse, every single bloody year! Traffic is a nightmare, maniacal limo drivers take over the roads, drunken orange slappers hanging out of the sunroofs flashing their saggy old titties. Once every two years Farnborough gets royally f
ked up by 'fatcat' industry types on jollies for the airshow. That bad boy lasts a fortnight, and in the past even saw 'limo lanes' introduced, with fines for non air show traffic using them. The Olympic Games saw many dual carriageways reduced to single lanes, with draconian punishments for drivers wandering into the 'official car' lane too early at the roundabout. Speed limit reductions too. I could go on. Gay Pride? That's Brighton fked up for a day at least. Notting Hill Carnival? Same there, and the costs to clear up after the "revellers" is immense. Ban it, I say!I'm a music fan. Reading Festival? Carnage on the roads of a busy city centre, and even the pavements are "gridlocked" at times. Isle of White festival? You can only get there by ferry, so if they're full of hairy students flaked out after a weekend of cider and 'legal highs' you can't get to the mainland. Residents must hate all of these events, especially if they, personally, are unable to profit from them. Pick a venue, pick an event, it's always going to be the same. Silverstone. British Grand Prix. Gridlock. Unhappy locals. But still they go ahead.
"You can't please all of the people all of the time." It was ONE day, FFS. And the organisers deliberately chose a Sunday. "What was that? There's a burglar in the house" Go back to sleep dear, there's nothing to see here...
...That's it, you tell him.Oh, bugger, he means me.
Perhaps we need a selective cull, then? We could start with bicyclists...
Yes, I had noticed all the events you mentioned, but they have history, are well known and people can plan around them. It was nigh on impossible to make sense of closures on the Tour de France website and life was made difficult for a lot of people. Would it have passed without comment if those elderly people I mentioned earlier had been deliberately dumped by the ambulance service a mile away from home? Don't think so but, because it's bicycling, it doesn't matter.
We have enough events already, thank you very much, and we don't need any more....
Black can man said:
Silver Smudger said:
I have had several staff that have abandoned their cars and travel in the last chunk of their journey into the office by Tube or DLR, so they were all late in as well, and now we can't get vans out to Central London because of the chaos in all the rat-runs around the main closures.
s!
So you run a company or manage some drivers that travel into central London & you didn't know this was on ?s!Jesus dude ! You suck at your job man.
Do all the people on this thread who
h this much about the London marathon or is it just because it's bikes?mybrainhurts said:
You're about as wrong as wrong gets about my views and motives and your disregard for the plight of others because they're in a minority is an absolute disgrace.
If you're going to troll, at least have the intelligence to make it amusing, its really tiring seeing you comment on every thread with some inane and witless crud, give it a rest.okgo said:
mybrainhurts said:
You're about as wrong as wrong gets about my views and motives and your disregard for the plight of others because they're in a minority is an absolute disgrace.
If you're going to troll, at least have the intelligence to make it amusing, its really tiring seeing you comment on every thread with some inane and witless crud, give it a rest.mybrainhurts said:
I know the people I was talking about and their lives were soured for those three days. How do read "trolling" into that and why do you deem it fit for humour? You've lost me there.
You add nothing of value, ever. So if you're going to continue with that theme, at least make it funny to read...My life is soured every day by the idiots who commute by car into London, life goes on.
mybrainhurts said:
...That's it, you tell him.Oh, bugger, he means me.
Perhaps we need a selective cull, then? We could start with bicyclists...
Yes, I had noticed all the events you mentioned, but they have history, are well known and people can plan around them. It was nigh on impossible to make sense of closures on the Tour de France website and life was made difficult for a lot of people. Would it have passed without comment if those elderly people I mentioned earlier had been deliberately dumped by the ambulance service a mile away from home? Don't think so but, because it's bicycling, it doesn't matter.
We have enough events already, thank you very much, and we don't need any more....
How even the firmest fixtures on the calendar had a "year zero"? Wimbledon, the FA Cup Final, Ashes Tests, Trooping the Colour, all those things had a 'first time'.
There's an obscure minority sport in this country called 'Association Football' I believe. There are 'clubs' dedicated to it in towns and cities all over the country. Some of them attract tens of thousands of 'supporters' to watch the spectacle of grown men running around and falling over a lot. Apparently, some of the people who live near the stadia where the spectacle takes place have no interest in it. Yet these people are penned into their own homes up to 24 times a year, for half a day at a time, by as many as 75,000 'fans' during the football season. Then there are additional 'matches' when these clubs progress in 'Cup Competitions' which are organised separately to the League contests.
Now think about how much of a pain in the arse that 'traditional' sporting event (or events) is (or are) for folk who get caught up in it without warning, visitors to far off towns, transport contractors who have deliveries to make, etc. Perhaps the fact that 'the football season' has been a 'tradition' since the late 19th century means that the opinions of non-involved folk are irrelevant? Or that "everyone knows when the football season is on, they should plan around it"?
There's another 'once a year' traditional event held in central London. Thousands of military veterans march through the streets to Whitehall and beyond, tens, maybe hundreds of thousands line the streets to watch. It's called "Remembrance Sunday" and wasn't a known phenomenon until at least 1919. Should we ban that, too, because it really screws up the traffic in London once a year?
swerni said:
mybrainhurts said:
okgo said:
mybrainhurts said:
You're about as wrong as wrong gets about my views and motives and your disregard for the plight of others because they're in a minority is an absolute disgrace.
If you're going to troll, at least have the intelligence to make it amusing, its really tiring seeing you comment on every thread with some inane and witless crud, give it a rest.Was worth the price, I thought the event was f
king brilliant. Our rider led for most of the leg into London.
Please thank the old cogers for being such good sports
mybrainhurts said:
okgo said:
mybrainhurts said:
You're about as wrong as wrong gets about my views and motives and your disregard for the plight of others because they're in a minority is an absolute disgrace.
If you're going to troll, at least have the intelligence to make it amusing, its really tiring seeing you comment on every thread with some inane and witless crud, give it a rest.Custard is order..
I struggle to see how that could happen given that the race only passed through for one day.
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