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  • Who is covering up what, and why?

    From Spike@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 19 18:17:43 2023
    The group seems to be enjoying (only in certain quarters) a spate of
    lengthy posts, some repeated several times, of drivers being fined or imprisoned.

    Flooding the group in this way is one tactic designed to divert attention
    away from something the author of such posts would rather see pushed into
    the background.

    Any ideas on what that might be? Success of Brexit? Failures of the EU dinosaur? Cyclist antisocial behaviour? Dutch death rates? Whinging
    cyclists? Has some bike scheme flopped or the true costs emerged? The fact
    that all the government money pumped into cycling initiatives via self-interested parties actually comes from the taxpayer?

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    Spike

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  • From Peter Keller@21:1/5 to Spike on Fri Oct 20 20:52:31 2023
    On 20/10/23 07:17, Spike wrote:

    The group seems to be enjoying (only in certain quarters) a spate of
    lengthy posts, some repeated several times, of drivers being fined or imprisoned.

    Flooding the group in this way is one tactic designed to divert attention away from something the author of such posts would rather see pushed into
    the background.

    Any ideas on what that might be? Success of Brexit? Failures of the EU dinosaur? Cyclist antisocial behaviour? Dutch death rates? Whinging
    cyclists? Has some bike scheme flopped or the true costs emerged? The fact that all the government money pumped into cycling initiatives via self-interested parties actually comes from the taxpayer?

    Most of the bicycling 'farcilities' I have seen are such that I would
    rather bike on the road. Cost to the taxpayer = £0.

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