Hi

In article , "JoeDe"
wrote:

Cyclists & pedestrians have to co exist like motorists and cyclists. Sounds
simple but often the simple things are the hardest to achieve.

I lived in Japan for some years, and there it all seems to work OK. They have
a view in the law that:

-you do not have a *right* to own and drive a car
-there is public transport available
-if you hit a cyclist or pedestrian then its your fault

you will loose your licence if you are not careful there. If you happen to be
a professional driver and thus loose your job, well that's tough luck. You
should have been more professional.

I personally feel that its all down to issues like:

- we don't have decent public transport and the government wishes to not make
the investments
- we have allowed urban development to sprawl enough forcing us to use
mechanised transport
- the government make more revenues from car transport than bicycle
- there is a developed attitude to car's own the road (I also ride a
motorcycle and used to drive a delivery truck for a living)

but we don't put pressure on our "members" and the vast voting public would
rather have cheap fuel and drive their cars 1.5km to the shops to get a packet
of cigaretts and pick up some beers on the way home.


See Ya
(when bandwidth gets better ;-)

Chris Eastwood
Photographer, Programmer
Motorcyclist and dingbat

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