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The 2017 Budget – What’s in it for cycling? Your at-a-glance-guide
A quick summary of the measures announced in today’s budget to promote healthy and green two wheeled transport
Wed, Mar 08, 2017 13:52
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kinderje 36 minutes ago
@riggbeck I'm a skinny 5'10" and go for Small in Sportful and Lusso (if anything the Lusso straps were a bit too long and loose)
quiff 43 minutes ago
I enjoyed the cyclist apparently riding through a red light on camera (5:19) and, for a bit of BBC balance, the police van parked on the pavement (4:35).
BroomBroomBroom 51 minutes ago
I love a 'but cars' argument as much as the next cycling menace, but come on: we can all see that the ebike situation is ridiculous. It discredits the promotion of active travel to pretend otherwise. These are profit-seeking enterprises taking over pavements without a second thought for the externalities. And it's absurd to have one provider in this borough and a different one in the next. This situation should never have been allowed to develop.
Surreyrider 1 hour ago
@Rendel Harris I recorded it too and then watched it as live on HBO (as only had part of the race), where they explained what I already knew. It was on TNT, But then they switched to snooker. And when that was done they said it would return to TNT and they seemed to think that was really good the way they presented it.
Daveyraveygravey 1 hour ago
I'm sure I bought a secondhand Specialized Diverge (gravel bike) to use as a winter road bike thanks to an article on Road cc, might even have been one of Liam's! I forget it has internal storage, but then I have a hardtail mtb, an aero (dry/summer) road bike and the Diverge, so it's easier to keep everything in one saddle bag and swap that when I swap bikes. When I remember... I'm lucky enough to live near the South Downs, so all 3 bikes get plenty of use, and usually on the most suitable terrain for them. The Diverge is a 2x and I'm on 35 mm tyres. I want to keep it somewhere in the middle ground between my mtb and my road bike.
Rendel Harris 3 hours ago
@mikewood Great, so with five times more expensive subs we get five times more incompetence!
Freddy56 3 hours ago
@riggbeck if your tall like me try the galibier equipe shorts as they have long or short options and the bib is easy to put on. If winter bibs, look at Endura, recall they have some with an adjustable bib brace.
mikewood 3 hours ago
@Rendel Harris I recorded it on TNT and it went to baseball with quite a lot left to run....
Boopop 3 hours ago
@tomlew What makes you think it's been edited?
Rendel Harris 4 hours ago
This is how it would have looked in real life, with him correctly on the left hand side of the track:
8 thoughts on “The 2017 Budget – What’s in it for cycling? Your at-a-glance-guide”
road.cc wrote:
So sweet FA to do with active travel in the budget, then?
Yeah thats about right.
Yeah thats about right.
I waited ages for the article
I waited ages for the article to load before the realisation kicked in…
Very funny road.cc
KevM wrote:
Truth in advertising.
KevM wrote:
Yep – same here..!
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Actually, it’s less than
Actually, it’s less than nothing:
“Transport and infrastructure
Acknowledging that congestion was an issue in large parts of the country, Mr Hammond said that some £690million would be made available to tackle traffic problems in urban areas and get local networks moving more freely.”
Going by experience over the past thirty years, that means widening roads, encouraging more driving and actively making things worse for pedestrians and cyclists.
burtthebike wrote:
and no scheme has ever done that and made things worse unless you look at bypasses which local people hate due to the damage it does to the countryside.