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Why do UKIP still exist?

On 24/09/2018 at 19:24, Slim said:

Probably showing my age, but when I learnt to drive you were taught not to park on corners or opposite junctions. As I live on the test "Route", I am incensed by the sheer number of Driving Instructors who have their pupils pull up anywhere! Surely part of the Highway code is to have respect for other road users. People park where you cannot see round the corner and even facing the wrong way i.e.  towards oncoming traffic when they have to pull right out before they can see if the road is clear. Oh, and why can't people be taught that the spare stick on the steering wheel works those funny coloured lights on the corners of their car! 

From a grumpy old bloke who holds an Advanced Licence and HGV +C.

Part of the test can be the reverse around a corner. I would have thought pulling up somewhere near a corner would be the best way to start this manoeuvre 

On 24/08/2018 at 14:13, herefordman75 said:

So expect an increase in bikes dumped in the river then? :) :) at least they will be able to find them. A lot of these hire bike schemes have fallen flat in other countries due to them being dumped wherever the rider feels is convenient for them, leading to massive costs in recovering them. There was one in New Zealand (i think) that was found in the crater of an extinct volcano....good idea, lots of potential logistical issues though

And the schemes that have been a great success? London, for instance? 

A credit/debit card is needed to register for these schemes. If a bike isn't returned then it is charged to that card. I doubt very much that someone would dump a bike if it was going to cost them £££!

I was directed to this website via a topic on the Hereford Times website.

Someone goes around taking photos and videos of people cycling on pavements???? Why??!! They obviously, um, "feel very strongly" about this but any claims of it being evidence of widespread wrong-doing is flawed as taking photos of people doing bad things means nothing. I could step outside my front door and take many photos of cars parked on pavements. I could then walk to the end of the road and within a few minutes I'd have some more photos of car drivers jumping the lights. Does that mean all car drivers are criminals, as some of the people here seem to think about cyclists? No, of course it doesn't.

To get anything meaningful a camera would have to be set up to film/take photos for hours or days on end and then the evidence looked at objectively. Expressing outrage at "criminal" cyclists is sliding down the slippery path to Daily Mail Land....