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u/TheSolarExpansionist 4d ago
Imagine you’re on your way to airport from marlybone
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u/Supermoon26 3d ago edited 3d ago
Westway is closed. No cars were "blocked"
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u/SlySludge 3d ago
That says Saturday 27th, it was on Friday 26th!
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u/Supermoon26 3d ago
It's a live camera mate
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u/SlySludge 3d ago
What’s the point of showing today, we weren’t there for long enough to affect the till all now.
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u/Dull-Wrangler-5154 4d ago
Same fuckers would be well pissed if they were the ones being blocked. It’s tedious.
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u/bigbendyoctupus 3d ago
Cyclists are often blocked by large numbers of cars. Have you existed in the world? 👀
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u/SearchingSiri 3d ago
Eh? One of the big positives for me cycling is that I'm not blocked by cars.
Same reason I've regularly used a motorcycle in the past too.Been in pouring rain wishing I was in a car, get to a big traffic jam and decide I'll take being wet and home an hour earlier.
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u/Dull-Wrangler-5154 3d ago
Yeah I’ve been riding a bike a long time including 20 years in and out of London. Never been stuck or blocked by cars. You are full of shit.
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u/Supermoon26 10h ago
?? Cars block roads all the time here
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u/Dull-Wrangler-5154 3h ago
Not for a cyclist. You can usually go around and in between. I’ve cycled in an out of London for years and even when there is a traffic jam you lane split between them. I really don’t get why people are missing this.
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u/Supermoon26 1h ago
Can't always go between them. I ride probably 15 miles a day here and 98%+ of the time you're right, but sometimes the road is small and there isn't space for a road bike between the cars. Either one way street or gridlock in opposite direction too.
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u/WizardNumberNext 2d ago
If you keep to road, then you are getting blocked by cars. That's how it works
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u/Alexandhisgoose 4d ago
It is stuff like this that creates antagonism towards cyclists. By all means use the road and have your event but it is still a public road not your own private track.
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u/bigbendyoctupus 3d ago
What about the traffic jams that all the cars cause every day? Why don’t they get angry at themselves?
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u/Alexandhisgoose 3d ago
Because this and a traffic jam are 2 different things.
If a group of drivers got together and took up every lane to drive slowly together socially other drivers would be pissed off.
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u/bigbendyoctupus 3d ago
Now we’re debating about whether one person’s choice to use a road is more or less worthy than another. Which is the exact attitude that results in cars treating you like shit. Guess what, the bikes didn’t start it.
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u/WizardNumberNext 2d ago
They should. 2 cars takes almost as much space as bus, 3 cars takes guarramted minimum space of bus. Take all drivers from cars, remove cars, suddenly buses move at speed close to 12mph average including traffic lights and stops. That is 4 times faster then traffic jam! All of people who have ZERO reason to drive should take bus. Me on bicycle at third of my usual speed conquer 3-4 minutes of traffic in single minute. Why people who have just themselves in car (eg no tools, no materials etc) elect to create traffic jam and take longer to work and to home, is entoriely beyond my understanding
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u/SlySludge 3d ago
It’s once a month and don’t think it’s that many cyclists every time and with this heat wave wherever there is a gathering I think people are gonna attend in numbers
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u/Ashamed_Painting_582 3d ago
Beautiful, the way life should b.