| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Rethink Cycles: Lots of different types eg last ni | |
| Posted by: | Simon Hayes | |
| Date/Time: | 09/01/21 09:46:00 |
| Why the ongoing obsession with bicycles and cycling? It’s not the only method of living a healthy life. Lots of people like playing football, but I don’t see any campaigning for building more football facilities across the borough. As it is a lot of participants have to drive to existing pitches. How about the council committing to putting a nice all-weather pitch in every neighbourhood in Ealing. Or swimming? Our enlightened leaders have permanently closed Gurnell, which was used by thousands of people every week, including a lot of schools with kids for whom it was their first and only experience of swimming. There’s no chance of a replacement pool on that site for years, certainly not before the private tower blocks have gone up there first. Cycling has its place but it’s not the answer. Even the halfwits on this site who advocate the banning of cars on Ealing’s roads occasionally find they have a need to drive. Does that make them hypocrites? Or is it simply that they are utilising a tool that many others find makes their lives easier and better and assists their economic activity. Here’s a thought. If everyone who advocates the instant reduction of traffic vowed never to drive a vehicle themselves, or use delivery companies (and van journeys are the biggest contributor to increased traffic in London), then we might see a big reduction in vehicle numbers on our roads without having to constantly demonise and criminalise law-abiding and tax paying car owners. |