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On your bike!
Back in the dark ages,well almost 60 years ago, I cycled six miles to school. However, would not like to do that with the traffic that is now on the roads. The bus service was not good where I lived, half mile walk to nearest stop and no evening service during week.
As for elderly drivers, I do see some and wonder if they should still be driving, but being country dwellers they have no other means of getting around.
I think we call that a Yankee
I think we call that a Yankee Pot Roast !
If people took responsibility for their own actions, the world would be a friendlier place. Why does a family of three need a 3000sf house ?
And don't forget the child predator factor for having the girls bike to school. I never was driven to school, except in a Monsoon, today, every child is driven. Think of the idling motors!
Karen
Phew!
I think I can safely say that i've avoided the wrath of Cathy!
I don't drive so I have to either a) walk - up to about 5km, b) cycle - well I only did 95km today or c) use public transport - where bulky/heavy loads or distance/time are important. The few times I travel in a car it's for leisure trips usually with two pensioners and then not that often.
And as for Maccy D's - well i've not used one in about a decade but I may have to now, the mighty G had one as preparation for his time trial ride today! I actually do quite a lot of cooking from the simple to quite fancy but it's not very economical when it's for one!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Cathy could always ...
... get a trailer bike or kiddyback tandem (or both) to take the little ones to school :)
Another way for we humans to cause less harm to the planet would be either to cut out eating meat altogether or, at least, to limit meat consumption greatly. I think I've been in a Micky D's a total of four times and 3 of those were because it was the only cafe open and it was just for a coffee and a non-meat snack.
We're lucky to have a decent bus service through our village but we usually walk the 2.5 miles into one of the nearby small market towns unless we're in a hurry when we use the bikes.
Robi
For a woman who talks a lot
For a woman who talks a lot about global warming,her carbon footprint seem very large to me.
Does she has solar collectors on the roofs or or a wind turbine?
Flying to Spain when she could holday in the UK?
Using a helicopter?
The family cars seem to be gas guzzlers.
I think she need to look at ways to reduce her own carbon foot print and maybe reduce the meat the family is eating or go vegetarian or better yet grow all her own fruit and veg.
https://mewswithaview.wordpress.com/
She likes to complain a lot
She likes to complain a lot yet does very little to actually help the environment directly. She likes to think that she is better than everyone else but is just as bad.
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
There is an abundance.....
Of drivers just like the old man you described pretty much everywhere I have ever been. They seem to be in absolutely no hurry to get anywhere, and what's more they feel it is their God given right to hold everyone else up.
The one's that truly piss me off are the left lane bandits - a phrase those of you on the east side of the pond won't understand. On an expressway or Interstate highway in the US, the left lane is known as the passing lane or the high speed lane - by law, slower traffic is required to keep right. Unfortunately, there seems to be a large portion of the motoring public who are too stupid to understand that. They will plant themselves in that lane and drive slower than the other traffic, forcing everyone else to pass them on the right. They refuse to move over, and when you flash your headlights at them to do so (the accepted and taught method for doing this), they get angry like you have insulted them. Hence the name "Left Lane Bandit".
How they ever passed a driving test is beyond me.
Dallas
D. Eden
“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Depends on where they slow down and time of day
If that old duffer pulled something like that on a two lane road (one lane of traffic in each direction) and during rush hour then the police can (and have) pull you over for obstructing traffic. As a consequence, I think they only pull that kind of shenanigans on multi-lane roads.
We all slow down as we get older.
I used to regularly tootle along at eighty or ninety mph but several factors have slowed me down recently.
1 Electronic surveillance (Speed cameras.)
2 Exponential increase in traffic (caused partly by population density and partly by increased car-ownership).
3 The onset of my own dotage, we do slow down as we get older and at seventy I notice this..
4 A serious deterioration in good road manners.
5 Rail travel isn't an option for the fares are exorbitant.
The trouble is the car has become an evil necessity to support my life-style running a business. I just cant win.
(Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan!)
But I'm still lovin' Bike.
It has taken years in coming
It has taken years in coming to America; where it comes to people riding bikes to work or school or where ever else. As they were never as popular here as in GB or Europe or Japan; it has taken some time for people to get used to sharing the road with the bike riders. Sadly, there are also some bike riders who believe they have the right to ride as they see fit and NOT follow the "rules of the road". This means USING hand signals to let auto drivers know what you are going to be doing, Riding WITH traffic, rather than against it as I have seen so many do lately??? Having the proper items on you bike, such as flashers, lights, tools and the like, wearing reflective clothing or items especially when you are riding out at dusk or even in the dark. Realizing that in many cases you have the right away, but fail to understand that a car/SUV/Van/Truck is way, way more larger than you and your bike, and can cause you much more serious harm, so in the right or not, you need to give way for your own safety sake at times.
Cathy wondering about the girls riding to school; when I was growing up 40's, 50's and 60's, if you lived ONE mile or less from the school, you walked to the school. No school bus at all; IF the roads were not too bad, you could ride a bike IF the school allowed it, as there were not too many places to park them for safety and proper storage.
Still think that is the case today in many places.
We could end up like the film
We could end up like the film slient running where all natural life on earth was gone except for space craft and want to blow up the habs to get back to commercal space flight. Or Soylant Green where the only food was people every one thing else was gone.In that film only the rich had good lifes every one else lived in old cars or on the streets
My mate 1952 E93A will only
My mate 1952 E93A will only do about 50 60 so she could get stuck behind that . My dad had a Ford E93A theyare slow.I once had a mk4 Zepher 2.0 v4 it was a huge tank but o to 60 in 3 days.Some old people own cars that are so old that they cant go fast.
I wish I could
walk, ride or use public transport, with blown out knees, I struggle to walk to my front yard sidewalk so riding or walking is no longer possible, and with the nearest public transportation station over a half mile away, neither is that. However, if I am traveling outside my own city, I drive to the public transport and then use public transportation - provided that the destination is near a station.