On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:51:41 GMT, JNugent 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.

London and Edinburgh are the two most congested cities in the UK,
with drivers clocking up average speeds of only 7mph during the final
mile of their journeys, the global traffic audit has revealed.

It concluded that it has become ‘faster to ride a bike than drive
or take the bus’ for millions of motorists in Britain.

It found that last year drivers in six UK cities – London,
Edinburgh, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield – crawled
along at an average speed of 10mph or less in the last mile of their
journey.

The average cyclist in cities travels at 9.6mph, according to traffic
analysts Inrix, which conducted the study.

ENDS.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tish-cities-fa
ster-cycle-drive.html

I have corrected the thread title for you and for the Daily Mail. As
written. it was the usual nonsense.

I am confident that any competent driver in an ordinary car, behaving
completely lawfully, could easily beat you or any other cyclist (on a
bicycle) in a race - at any time of day or night - from one end of the
Liverpool Ring Road* to the other.


[* Approximately 11.3 miles, Millers Bridge / Balliol Road / Breeze
Hill / Queens Drive / Menlove Avenue / Hillfoot Road / Speke Hall
Road, northerly termination at Regent Road, southerly at junction with
A561 Speke Boulevard. Almost all dual carriageway, almost all 40 mph
limit.]

This appears to be some kind of race. But on dual carriageways. I can't
see it as representative of the madness that is the daily commute into a
city centre.

xpost added.



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Bah, and indeed, Humbug.