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R2Icon
Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 1444
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:41 am Post subject: Blackpool Bikes |
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I'm not certain where I heard it, but yesterday I heard that Blackpool is hoping to be the cycling capital of the UK. Are my logic circuits the only ones thinking Tram Lines + Bikes = Skinned Knees, broken arms, bumped heads and compensation claims? |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:23 pm Post subject: To bike or not to bike... |
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I thought this thread was about young ladies of easy virtue at first! Any-hoo, maybe Blackpool aims to be the recycling capital of the country with all those 'Kiss me quick' hats, beer bottles and old jokes told in the theatres being collected up safely and taken away by a drove of donkeys. |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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R2Icon wrote: | I'm not certain where I heard it, but yesterday I heard that Blackpool is hoping to be the cycling capital of the UK. Are my logic circuits the only ones thinking Tram Lines + Bikes = Skinned Knees, broken arms, bumped heads and compensation claims? |
Well, if you've been on the Grand National, the Pepsi Max Infusion and the Irn Bru Revolution and survived....
Here's the story:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/8256199.stm
There are eleven other nominated Cycle Towns (Bristol, Cambridge, Chester, Colchester, Leighton Buzzard, Shrewsbury, Southend, Southport, Stoke, Woking and York are the others) which have been given varying amounts of government funding to promote cycle use. Blackpool has had £3m, which the council has had to match, making the £6m mentioned.
If there are properly segregated cycle lanes (segregated from traffic and pedestrians as well as the trams) then I suppose it could be a good idea. What chance, do you reckon?
It would have to be a rare dry, balmy day to persuade me to spend £8 to hire a bike, rather than half that on the trams (and if it was that balmy I'd walk). I fear their cycles (those that don't get vandalised or nicked) are likely to get rusty pretty quickly in the rain and sea-spray.
Funnily enough, in five and a half years of operation I don't think any cyclists have got caught in Nottingham's tramlines. Most of them get mown down by the buses and taxis long before they get anywhere near.
(You'll notice there are no Scottish towns in that list. Ever contrary, the Scots plan to tax cyclists to encourage their use - http://road.cc/content/news/8177-scottish-govt-plans-boost-cycling-by%E2%80%A6-taxing-cyclists ) _________________ Ron |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3608 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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Blackpool have spent years making the Prom extra wide, with large flat bits, so there's room for cyclists to go down. They've also willfully buggered-up the tram system and road layout so a bike looks like a good idea! Be nice when it's finished, mind. |
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