Coronavirus = empty roads

[sisu]

I like the roads being this quiet, my Dad said that the traffic was similar to the 50s at the moment.
Delivery vans, the odd car and parking at the station. But no smog

[rosetank]

PorkRind said:

I think its amazing, all those unnecessary journeys not being , made, the co2 not being pumped out.. I can actually ride my bike on the roads without fear of some donut trying to kill me. I wonder if we could appeal for less road usage in general instead of having an electrical market, Improve the rail/tram network and it would be splendid for sound, emissions and resource burning ! Trust me, i love my car (c63) but ive not used it in a week, i'll have a quick blast this weekend but one car making a bit of a blare is nothing compared to all the lorries. unnecessary journeys being made by people who cant be arsed to cycle or walk to the local shop to pick up a few things..?!

Tell me how you get on with a months worth of shopping on the pushbike..

[Teddy Lop]

Thank fk the van has cruise control. Keeping out of profit zone threshold on the north circular when its empty is torture (40mph av-scam)

other than that I've got weird mixed emotions on it, while driving everywhere in as little as one third of the time it'd normally take is a gift that keeps on giving (seriously you guys don't know what you're missing out on, I'd say you need to try it but that's frowned upon), there's an ominous constant awareness that the financial cost could be a very nasty sting in the tail.

[cerb4.5lee]

sisu said:

I like the roads being this quiet, my Dad said that the traffic was similar to the 50s at the moment.

I've been out food shopping this morning and it was the most quiet I've ever seen the main roads around me. It made me really want my TVR back and I could've really made the best of the empty roads in that. Instead I only had 189bhp to play with in my Mini and that felt really slow today(it doesn't usually feel that slow to me) because the roads were so open.

[DonkeyApple]

rosetank said:

Tell me how you get on with a months worth of shopping on the pushbike..

Maybe by not being a first world weed?

[rosetank]

DonkeyApple said:

Maybe by not being a first world weed?

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Love it

[Alucidnation]

[DonkeyApple]

rosetank said:

Love it

I think it’s important to note that even in the third world, judging by the images, you clearly still send the wife or help to do the shopping.

[Solocle]

DonkeyApple said:

rosetank said:

Tell me how you get on with a months worth of shopping on the pushbike..

Maybe by not being a first world weed?

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Hardly a fully loaded rig (need to sort out a rear rack and panniers really). Picked the basket up in Lidl while out, then went on to Tesco in a 27 mile round trip.That included a rather nasty hill. I probably bought more than some people who drove there, most in my backpack!

[rosetank]

Solocle said:

Hardly a fully loaded rig (need to sort out a rear rack and panniers really). Picked the basket up in Lidl while out, then went on to Tesco in a 27 mile round trip.That included a rather nasty hill. I probably bought more than some people who drove there, most in my backpack!

My dog eats more

[sisu]

It is an interesting reflection though of how people are taking this and interpreting this.

A single person in a bicycle, car, motorbike or van going from A to A isn't transmitting a virus. They are a risk if they crash, break down or delay people getting to hospital as there are fewer staff.

The bit that I find odd is everyone wearing masks that they bought online over the past 2 weeks because no white people had a stash of these in the back of the cupboard did they?

Everybody needs space and how you make sure the time you spend indoors is peaceful if you are with others. If they walk the dog again, mouch around Tescos twice a day in a mask like the Dude Lebowski or go for a blat in a car. Then let it be.

[swisstoni]

Have another go.

[Johnnytheboy]

sisu said:

The bit that I find odd is everyone wearing masks that they bought online over the past 2 weeks because no white people had a stash of these in the back of the cupboard did they?

[VeeFource]

What I find odd is that nowhere in the news is it saying wearing masks with exhale valves are totally pointless. We know only the high end ones protect the wearer with the rest helping to protect others around the wearer. But not with an exhale valve so anyone you see wearing a dust mask or equivalent with one of those on is just wasting the mask.

[sparkyhx]

my neighbours went out for a 5 hrs cycle ride, how is that different to going for a drive, if anything far riskier. I had to go to mother in laws, and saw plenty of kitted out cyclists. And I bet every one of them was not doing a quick ride round the block for an hr.

So police, start stopping the lycra brigade as well.

[SidewaysSi]

sparkyhx said:

my neighbours went out for a 5 hrs cycle ride, how is that different to going for a drive, if anything far riskier. I had to go to mother in laws, and saw plenty of kitted out cyclists. And I bet every one of them was not doing a quick ride round the block for an hr.

So police, start stopping the lycra brigade as well.

Yep they should be stopped, kicked in the balls and fined.

[rosetank]

sparkyhx said:

my neighbours went out for a 5 hrs cycle ride, how is that different to going for a drive, if anything far riskier. I had to go to mother in laws, and saw plenty of kitted out cyclists. And I bet every one of them was not doing a quick ride round the block for an hr.

So police, start stopping the lycra brigade as well.

Did you record the times on a spreadsheet to upload to social media later.

Damn those ‘kitted our types’ they should be wearing tweed.

[HM-2]

sparkyhx said:

And I bet every one of them was not doing a quick ride round the block for an hr.

IIRC it's half an hour for cycling or running and 1hr for walking.

Plenty of Lycra Louts flouting the rules, I took our daughter for a walk this morning so my wife could have a lie-in, then popped to the supermarket two hours later and passed the same cyclist I'd seen going out of my village, coming back from his ride. Seen plenty of them and runners etc spitting in the proximity of other pedestrians which is frankly nasty at the best of times too.

[wazztie16]

HM-2 said:

IIRC it's half an hour for cycling or running and 1hr for walking.

Plenty of Lycra Louts flouting the rules, I took our daughter for a walk this morning so my wife could have a lie-in, then popped to the supermarket two hours later and passed the same cyclist I'd seen going out of my village, coming back from his ride.

Source? IIRC it's once per day for exercise.

[Boosted LS1]

Yep and a walk could take 8 hours. This will have been factored into the gov's equations imo. Infections are spread where people are congested. Think shops, petrol stations etc.