You and yours - radio 4

walkingbootweather

How to make cycling easier and safer - Julian Worricker takes your calls.

on now

Koncordski

Ooh ooh, easy one, i know this.

Erm, hi-viz, number plates, helmets, tax of some kind, definitely insurance. Basically a giant number plate/tax disc made out of hi-viz material. Yeah that's it.

suzyb

How to make it easier...flatten all the hills and plant loads and loads of trees

asprilla

Koncordski wrote:

Basically a giant number plate/tax disc made out of hi-viz material. Yeah that's it.

And you wear it on your head?

vermin

Sponge roads and inflatable lorries

rubertoe

So being insured and paying tax would 100% guarantee me not getting squished... where do i sign up.

anonymousblackfg

It's you and your's, this will be the cutting edge follow up to "doors, are they the best ways to leave rooms". It will be bored retirees telling tales about how they once came across a cyclist on a country lane.

notsoblue

I liked the bit near the end where they read out a message from a listener who said that Dutch cyclists pay road tax (50:45).

davmaggs

It seems that the Beeb's desire to generate traffic is now infecting R4, the last hold out (of their channels) against tabloid headline generation in order to generate traffic. It's bad enough that BBC news online is now chav filled nonsense, but for R4 was the safe zone.

Headlines today include "Jeremy Paxman 'may keep' beard", and "What's it like growing up as a boy named Messiah?" Worth every penny of the licence fee </sarcasm>

rick_chasey

It's sh!t entertainment.

It's the same argument over and over. It never changes, to the point where even false information and assumptions still get rehashed.

That'd be fine if it was like this forum - catering for the afficionado - but it obviously isn't.

Bbc output is dire at the moment.

coopster_the_1st

Rick Chasey wrote:

It's the same argument over and over. It never changes, to the point where even false information and assumptions still get rehashed.

Agree with the above.

Whenever someone mentioned they would like to cycle but didn't because it was always unsafe or dangerous.

No-one actually pointed out what was the cause that made it dangerous (or feel dangerous/un-safe)

While segregation will work to remove this point, you cannot seperate cars and bikes over the whole country so the best way forward is to integrate them so that vehicles are use to driving around cyclists. Otherwise the problems will still exist outside of towns and cities!

The road tax arguement should have been put to bed years ago but the ipayroadtax website does not have the best message. You do not see drivers driving agressively around Toyota Prius cars(and others) who also do not pay road tax. These double standards need pointing out so the arguement is no longer seen as valid amongst motorists!

I always feel cycle organisations like the CTC are very poor at putting cycling views across and this was another case , even Andy Tennant was poor. Chris Boardman is the best person I have heard by a long distance in interviews.

notsoblue

Coopster the 1st wrote:

I always feel cycle organisations like the CTC are very poor at putting cycling views across and this was another case , even Andy Tennant was poor.

Yeah, the guy from the cycling organisation (forget who or which) got caught up in a discussion about taxation and never once mentioned that theres no such thing as road tax. Instead he made the point that ~80% of cyclists have cars too...

jimmypippa

notsoblue wrote:

Coopster the 1st wrote:

I always feel cycle organisations like the CTC are very poor at putting cycling views across and this was another case , even Andy Tennant was poor.

Yeah, the guy from the cycling organisation (forget who or which) got caught up in a discussion about taxation and never once mentioned that theres no such thing as road tax. Instead he made the point that ~80% of cyclists have cars too...

That is an open goal. I'd just ask what the VED on a Prius is, and why?