Flooding in Stockport

[mexico1970]

Just the one trainer? Couldn't afford a pair?
Surely with one go faster you'd just have gone in circles

I moved that fast back in the day you couldn't tell I was wearing just the one trainer or pump as they/it was called :)

 

[dobingsdobber]

Mersey on the rise again at East Didsbury/Parrs Wood.

 

[normskih]

One of my pet subjects for local councils is those silly "bike only" green zones at traffic lights. I live in Oldham HAVE NEVER seen one occupied by a pushbike and 99% of drivers completely ignore them (inlcuding many police cars I've noticed) and they must have spent hundreds of thousands sticking them all over the place. Many have now almost completely faded. Some contractor must have made millions from councils.

Those silly "bike only" zones are for vulnerable road users.

 

[Really_here]

Those silly "bike only" zones are for vulnerable road users.

A rarity indeed, I truthfully have never seen a bike occupying one EVER. Must be no vulnerable road users in Oldham. I don't have a problem with them where they get used but whoever decided to plaster them everywhere should be sacked. Bike lanes yes.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

A rarity indeed, I truthfully have never seen a bike occupying one EVER. Must be no vulnerable road users in Oldham. I don't have a problem with them where they get used but whoever decided to plaster them everywhere should be sacked. Bike lanes yes.

You’d have to be clinically insane to consider biking it in Oldham on a regular basis.

Not only would you likely get hypothermia, you’d have your bike nicked as well.

 

[Blue Mist]

A rarity indeed, I truthfully have never seen a bike occupying one EVER. Must be no vulnerable road users in Oldham. I don't have a problem with them where they get used but whoever decided to plaster them everywhere should be sacked. Bike lanes yes.

You have never seen them being used because bikes ignore red lights and therefore don't need them.

Sorry Normy :-)

 

[The Northern Baptist]

You’d have to be clinically insane to consider biking it in Oldham on a regular basis.

Not only would you likely get hypothermia, you’d have your bike nicked as well.

I worked in Oldham town centre for about 6 months. Genuinely some of the worst driving I’ve ever seen by the locals there. I would not want to by going about on a bike there.

 

[normskih]

You have never seen them being used because bikes ignore red lights and therefore don't need them.

Sorry Normy :-)

Not all cyclists, sorry Misty;)

 

[BrianW]

Councils were given ring-fenced money for these bike schemes (which seem to annoy so many people) by the central government. The money could not be used for anything else.

So blame central government. It's one of the Green issues the Tories had in their manifesto for the last-but-one GE. But most people were so fixated by Brexit they didn't notice the other stuff. And about 1% of the population have even a vague idea of how local government funding works. (Clue - most of it does not come from your council tax, some services are mandatory, and some funding is ring-fenced and can only be spent on one thing. It's a bit like a benefactor giving you £500, but requiring you to spend it on decorating your back bedroom, even though your roof is leaking and you can't pay the gas bill.)

 

[blue b4 the moon]

You’d have to be clinically insane to consider biking it in Oldham on a regular basis.

Not only would you likely get hypothermia, you’d have your bike nicked as well.

While riding it.