On 03/04/2019 22:16, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:54:29 GMT, JNugent wrote:

On 18/02/2019 17:53, soup wrote:
On 17/02/2019 20:52, wrote:
QUOTE:
It's now faster to cycle than drive in some city centres as
Britain’s roads become increasingly gridlocked, a report has
found.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...itish-cities-f
aster-cycle-drive.html



Every other month, for the last good few years, there has been some
contests or other reported where bike, public transport and car are
pitted against each other for a commute; invariably the bike wins...

...over the last, inner-city, bit of the journey.

Where the journey is posited and measured so as to be representative
of normality is something that is never measured - for some reason.
Probably partly to do with the need for headlines, even if they are
deceiving headlines.

It might have become "normal" for some people to commute daft distances;
that's another part of the problem.

What "problem" would that be?

I remember a commute I had from Lancashire into Liverpool: 12 miles,
including about a mile on local 30mph roads, a mile on NSL A-roads, six
miles on a motorway and four miles on other 30mph roads, about half of
which was dual-carriageway.

No cyclist could have done that quicker than a driver in a quite
ordinary car. In order to allow a cyclist a chance to "win" such a
challenge, an organiser would have had to contrive the last few hundred
yards of the inbound journey only.