Iinstitute of advanced motorists poll

goldsmith_robert

CYCLING POLL Please see below - the Institute of Advanced Motorists is having a poll about cycling which no doubt they will slant toward driving us off the roads.

Anyway, this is a chance to stick our oar in a bit as cyclists - perhaps if enough of us reply and they don't get the result they expect they will quietly forget about it.

http://www.iam.org.uk/iam_polls/

This poll will close on the 10th March 2010 at 5:00pm.

bprice

Hi Rob....Done mate!!

RonB

Me too. For info this topic has also appeared in " Cake Stop" ...

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12681322

priory

the problem with this poll is the various options are all unsavoury except the 20mph one.

I actually ticked 'other' and pointed that out in the box.

lae

Click on results - I think as cyclists we are doing well!

Sirius631

priory wrote:

the problem with this poll is the various options are all unsavoury except the 20mph one.

I actually ticked 'other' and pointed that out in the box.

I think the 20mph limit is also unsatisfactory, since 20mph is lower than I need to do when training for threshold. I checked the 'other' button and called for better education for drivers in cyclist rights. It would help if more drivers knew that our place wasn't on the pavement.

downfader

Sirius631 wrote:

priory wrote:

the problem with this poll is the various options are all unsavoury except the 20mph one.

I actually ticked 'other' and pointed that out in the box.

I think the 20mph limit is also unsatisfactory, since 20mph is lower than I need to do when training for threshold. I checked the 'other' button and called for better education for drivers in cyclist rights. It would help if more drivers knew that our place wasn't on the pavement.

Not a massive fan of 20mph around here either. OK around schools imo (even after hours as the kids have extra curricular stuff until 8pm at times) Seems pointless to have sub 30 imo and would rather have that across the board (except for dual carriageways and m/ways and very wide roads)

Sirius631

downfader wrote:

Sirius631 wrote:

priory wrote:

the problem with this poll is the various options are all unsavoury except the 20mph one.

I actually ticked 'other' and pointed that out in the box.

I think the 20mph limit is also unsatisfactory, since 20mph is lower than I need to do when training for threshold. I checked the 'other' button and called for better education for drivers in cyclist rights. It would help if more drivers knew that our place wasn't on the pavement.

Not a massive fan of 20mph around here either. OK around schools imo (even after hours as the kids have extra curricular stuff until 8pm at times) Seems pointless to have sub 30 imo and would rather have that across the board (except for dual carriageways and m/ways and very wide roads)

+1 about the school thing, although I believe that these should be variable. There is a school on Victoria Avenue in Middleton, Manchester. The road has been restricted to 20mph and the warning signs flash the warning all weekend long, even though there are no school kids about and Victoria Ave is a main road.