[media] Growing car useage forces Shenzhen China Bicycle Company into bankruptcy

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1739691,00.html

was producing 3,000,000 cycles/year

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Alan J. Wylie wrote:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1739691,00.html
I enjoyed the bit about "The air has turned brown"
Who would have thought that.

"stupot" wrote in message
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Alan J. Wylie wrote:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1739691,00.html
I enjoyed the bit about "The air has turned brown"
Who would have thought that.

I enjoyed the bit about "Cyclists will be banned ... unless they can be
trained to obey traffic regulations"
Who would have thought that.

ian henden wrote:

I enjoyed the bit about "Cyclists will be banned ... unless they can be
trained to obey traffic regulations"
Who would have thought that.

So clearly when cyclists have been banned for breaking them then
the motor vehicle drivers who break them will be allowed to carry
on doing so. So that's all right then!

Pete.
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"Peter Clinch" wrote in message
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ian henden wrote:

I enjoyed the bit about "Cyclists will be banned ... unless they can be
trained to obey traffic regulations"
Who would have thought that.

So clearly when cyclists have been banned for breaking them then the motor
vehicle drivers who break them will be allowed to carry on doing so. So
that's all right then!

How on earth do you arrive at that conclusion?? no-one has mentioned motor
vehicle drivers (who currently DO get banned in certain circumstances).

Methinks you are suffering from capitoinanal syndrome.

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IanH

Pete.
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...... and there was a time, many yeards ago, when the Scottish education
system was regarded as being somewhat better than Englands .... (

ian henden wrote:

How on earth do you arrive at that conclusion?? no-one has mentioned motor
vehicle drivers (who currently DO get banned in certain circumstances).

I mentioned them, and they are not banned en-masse, or considered
by inept journalists to be banned en-masse, because /some/ of them
can't stick to the rules.

It was a simple case of singling put cyclists where the argument
/should/ apply to *all* those in control of vehicles.

Pete.
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Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
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I submit that on or about Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:50:57 GMT, the person
known to the court as "ian henden" made a statement
in Your Honour's bundle) to
the following effect:

I enjoyed the bit about "Cyclists will be banned ... unless they can be
trained to obey traffic regulations"

Forlorn hope. After half a century of not allowing some road users
onto the roads until they show they understand the regulations and can
demonstrate compliance, there is no sign that this has resulted in
widespread, let alone universal, obedience to the rules.

Like communism: a nice idea in theory, let down by the baser side of
human nature.

Guy
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