Typical Daily Mail

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RecumbentRide
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Typical Daily Mail

Post by RecumbentRide »

Typical inflammatory and divisive headline from the Daily Mail. Pretty shocking journalism. As were the comments but what can you expect when you stoke the fire

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philvantwo
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Why don't you put a link to the full article, instead of a 10 second video?
backnotes
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Post by backnotes »

Here’s the headline

“Motorists' fury as cyclists IGNORE £150m cycle lane scheme in Bournemouth and pedal along the road - forcing drivers into oncoming traffic”

and the link

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -road.html

The article makes the point that the path is partly blocked by construction barriers that had blown down.
PT1029
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£150M cycle lane - really?

Looking at the video still on the Mail website, looks like the segregated cycle lane leaves cyclists open to getting left hooked at the junction....
no ASL or advanced green for cycles as far as I can tell.
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Post by ANTONISH »

It looks like there is work going on adjacent to the cycle path - there is what looks like a tarpaulin laying partly on the path as is a temporary barrier.. Have there been recent works preventing cyclists from using the cycle path?
Agree the provision at the junction is inadequate.
£150M ? for a cycle path - more likely the cycle path is part of a £150M road "improvement scheme".

Of course coming from a reputable newspaper like the DM :roll:
Pete Owens
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Confirmation, if any was needed, of which road users segregation is intended to benefit.
backnotes
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Post by backnotes »

ANTONISH wrote: 5 Jan 2022, 10:05am £150M ? for a cycle path - more likely the cycle path is part of a £150M road "improvement scheme".
Indeed - the article contradicts itself by saying this is part of a wider scheme to create sustainable travel links across south east Dorset which cost £102m in total, so it is hard to see how the path in Bournemouth could have cost £150m.
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Of course another Daily Fail anti cyclist rant as I see no on coming traffic where passing vehicles are driving in to. Also it typically absolves drivers in the form of using their brain to decide when an when it is not safe to carry out a passing manoeuvre, when will they learn that roads are use by a manner of all folk and vehicles.
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Maybe it should read £1.5m?
£150m is much better to get the public outcry the DF wants though :roll:
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see here cyclist's response to diffficulties with other road users...
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It was on my newsfeed yesterday and I read it. Comments by Council that cycle lane had barriers and work going on didn't seem to matter.

The whole article was a real mishmash, but I was most amused that drivers had "to swerve" to get past the cyclist.
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It's amazing how many people have forgotten that the daily mail supported Hilter's rise to power :D

In the words of Nelson Muntz 'Ha ha, your medium is dying'
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Is it time for The Song?

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cycle tramp wrote: 6 Jan 2022, 9:24pm It's amazing how many people have forgotten that the daily mail supported Hilter's rise to power.
Nobody on this forum can forget that. Some savant brings it up everything 3 months. What's less well known is that the Daily Mirror had a thing for Moseley.

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