On Thu, 27 May 2004 11:04:30 +0100, David Hansen wrote:

On Wed, 26 May 2004 19:42:47 +0100 someone who may be "Jeremy
Parker" wrote this:-

The interesting thing about Britain is how variable the amount of
cycling is. It ranges from Cambridge, with a higher proportion of
cyclists than Amsterdam [ref EU "Cycling: the way ahead for towns and
cities" 1999] down to places in Wales and Scotland where its pretty
neglegible.

I think your comparison is English-centric. Wales and Scotland are
rather larger than Cambridge. Scotland is in fact 1/3 of the land
mass of the UK. Within both countries there are large variations in
the amount of cycling, just as in England.

Yeah, Jeremy showed really his prejudices there. He could just have easily
written, "It ranges from Cambridge....., down to places where it's pretty
negligible". (Fewer words, therefore more easily written, in fact.)

Still, I suppose he didn't make the mistake of lumping Northern Ireland
into Britain.
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