Ban driving on a sunday? UK Gov idea

[Diavel]

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/a...

Edited by Diavel on Wednesday 18th July 11:32

[Pixelpeep]

Wouldn't it be a better idea to have designated places where children can play. You could have grass, swings, a roundabout, a slide. Parents could park their children there in complete safety. Ohhh you could call it a Park!

hmm not sure, i think it's a bit of a crazy idea, not sure if it would catch on.

Actually, children playing in the road is much better. Children will get used to playing in the road then when they run back out in the same road on monday morning and get hit by a car the motorist can simply wave a calendar at them and everything will be ok

[farrendahl]

Diavel said:

Sorry if this a repost, it may not be. But i havnt the time to trawl throught 10000 pages of threads
Heres the link to yet another attack on drivers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8492997/Cars-could...

Slight over exageration on the headline there, they are talking about closing selected residential roads for a period of hours on a Sunday, not a blanket UK wide driving ban for one day a week.

[Pixelpeep]

Diavel said:

farrendahl said:

Slight over exageration on the headline there, they are talking about closing selected residential roads for a period of hours on a Sunday, not a blanket UK wide driving ban for one day a week.

I just posted a short headline, get over it.

wow.. so early on in the thread too.. we normally like to get to the 2nd page of a thread at least before it breaks down into a full on argument..

[Robb F]

Article was written May 2011...

[DanDC5]

Diavel said:

farrendahl said:

Slight over exageration on the headline there, they are talking about closing selected residential roads for a period of hours on a Sunday, not a blanket UK wide driving ban for one day a week.

I just posted a short headline, get over it.

That's not an unnecessary response at all...

[farrendahl]

Pixelpeep said:

Diavel said:

farrendahl said:

Slight over exageration on the headline there, they are talking about closing selected residential roads for a period of hours on a Sunday, not a blanket UK wide driving ban for one day a week.

I just posted a short headline, get over it.

wow.. so early on in the thread too.. we normally like to get to the 2nd page of a thread at least before it breaks down into a full on argument..

Woooah, and wooah, you posted a headline, I expanded on it, breath, relax, go to happy place

[OlberJ]

We've now progressed to the panic delete.

[y2blade]

Diavel said:

Sorry if this a repost, it may not be. But i havnt the time to trawl throught 10000 pages of threads
Heres the link to yet another attack on drivers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8492997/Cars-could...

Robb F said:

Article was written May 2011...

OlberJ said:

We've now progressed to the panic delete.

[Diavel]

y2blade said:

Diavel said:

Sorry if this a repost, it may not be. But i havnt the time to trawl throught 10000 pages of threads
Heres the link to yet another attack on drivers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8492997/Cars-could...

Robb F said:

Article was written May 2011...

OlberJ said:

We've now progressed to the panic delete.

No son, no panic delete. I just can't be arsed with the nit picking A holes that often frequent PH. I was warned before I joined, but I thought I would give it a try anyway.
And the artical that prompted the thread is in today's "TIMES" http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/a...
Now how funny is that.

Edited by Diavel on Wednesday 18th July 11:30

[y2blade]

Diavel said:

y2blade said:

Diavel said:

Sorry if this a repost, it may not be. But i havnt the time to trawl throught 10000 pages of threads
Heres the link to yet another attack on drivers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8492997/Cars-could...

Robb F said:

Article was written May 2011...

OlberJ said:

We've now progressed to the panic delete.

No son, no panic delete. I just can't be arsed with the nit picking A holes that often frequent PH. I was warned before I joined.
And the artical that prompted the thread iin today's "TIMES" http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/a...
How funny is that.

Edited by Diavel on Wednesday 18th July 11:28

Very!!

Any pics of your bike please?

[Captain Muppet]

Diavel said:

No son, no panic delete. I just can't be arsed with the nit picking A holes that often frequent PH. I was warned before I joined.
And the artical is in today's "TIMES" http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/a...
How funny is that.

You don't have to delete posts to avoid nit pick, just don't look at the thread.

[/pedant]

Jason Torrance of Sustrans said:

“Ciclovías in Bogotá and other cities across the world are showing exactly what our communities can be like if they become places for people first, rather than just thoroughfares for cars, making it safer for us to walk and cycle for everyday journeys.”

Where I live big chunks of most cities are already pedestrianised with "pavements". The cars aren't allowed on them, and they seem to work well as long as the pedestrians aren't drunk.

[Diavel]

Captain Muppet said:

Where I live big chunks of most cities are already pedestrianised with "pavements". The cars aren't allowed on them, and they seem to work well as long as the pedetrians aren't drunk.

Oh that's cool, so they do this just on the Sunday, then back to normal on the Monday then?
Because the link was about just Sundays. Most city's and towns across the UK have pedestrianised zones.

[OlberJ]

Christ you're a bit nippy.

Is it something we can talk about. Maybe you'd like a cuddle, da?

[y2blade]

OlberJ said:

Christ you're a bit nippy.

Is it something we can talk about. Maybe you'd like a cuddle, da?

Struggle Cuddle?

[Captain Muppet]

Diavel said:

Captain Muppet said:

Where I live big chunks of most cities are already pedestrianised with "pavements". The cars aren't allowed on them, and they seem to work well as long as the pedetrians aren't drunk.

Oh that's cool, so they do this just on the Sunday, then back to normal on the Monday then?
Because the link was about just Sundays. Most city's and towns across the UK have pedestrianised zones.

No, it's all the time, because just doing on one day a week would be stupid.

Sorry if I didn't know what the thread was about, but with you deleting then editing content from the OP it gets a bit confusing.

Awesome thread though, really enjoying being part of it.

[V88Dicky]

I think this scheme has already been trialled on my estate. Cars weren't banned per se, but they had to share the roadway with dozens of kids, avoiding footballs, bicycles, toy prams and various other articles.
Another good feature of the trial, iirc, was once you were parked up and indoors, the children would happily bounce heavy leather footballs off the parked cars, retrieve them from your property (to save you from doing it) and occasionally pull flowers out of your flower beds to use as toys.

Suburban Utopia

[Diavel]

Captain Muppet said:

Sorry if I didn't know what the thread was about, but with you deleting then editing content from the OP it gets a bit confusing.

yea, the thread title doesn't say SUNDAY does it
How the hell does a simple thread turn into yet another attack the poster? How does that work? Just throw in your kick like a pack of dogs
The anonymity of a forum ey, were you can gang up on people that you would not in the real world.
Hey guys you win, this is no place for me. What a place

[y2blade]

What an odd thread!

[Jasandjules]

V88Dicky said:

I think this scheme has already been trialled on my estate. Cars weren't banned per se, but they had to share the roadway with dozens of kids, avoiding footballs, bicycles, toy prams and various other articles.

Pah, there are Dual Carriageways around where the same things apply. I wish people would keep their offspring under control.