Call for lower speed limits to protect New Forest ponies – somehow veers into anti cycling

David9694 · 2019-07-31T20:05:16+01:00

https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/new-forest-speed-limit it’s a no-brainer, if we are serious about enforcing the speed limit and reducing animal casualties - average speed cameras on the B roads across the New Forest, I.e. where there are the most incidents and guess what, the most cars. They don’t have to be obtrusive. We bang on about it year after year, and every incident is a tragedy - we don’t don’t seem to get a grip on it.

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July 31, 2019 at 8:05 pm #29969

David9694

https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/new-forest-speed-limit

it’s a no-brainer, if we are serious about enforcing the speed limit and reducing animal casualties – average speed cameras on the B roads across the New Forest, I.e. where there are the most incidents and guess what, the most cars. They don’t have to be obtrusive. We bang on about it year after year, and every incident is a tragedy – we don’t don’t seem to get a grip on it.
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August 1, 2019 at 8:44 am #947289
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Mungecrundle

I’ll take his word that he is
I’ll take his word that he is not anti-cyclist, I expect that some of his neighbours are cyclists and that he may even have invited some to a BBQ at his house once to show his non anti cyclist credentials.

I reckon he his just using the cyclist nonsense to demonstrate that he is a moron.

August 1, 2019 at 8:29 am #947287
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brooksby

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Cllr Alan Glass said: “Having recently attended a road safety meeting I am sorry to say that we have the worst record for safety in the area.

“A lot of the reason for that is down to cyclists. They ride all over the road and I wonder if there is anything we can do to mitigate the dangers.

Speaking to the A&T after the meeting, Cllr Glass said: “I am not anti-cyclists, far from it. But there are a minority who do not respect other road users.

“The other day a friend of mine who is a lorry driver was coming up to the brow of a hill when he was met with a large group of cyclists heading straight towards him at speed, spread right across the whole of the road.

“Two of them bounced off the front of his truck. Unfortunately some cyclists are just very anti-social in the way they treat the roads and the Forest.”

Words fail me, here.

He believes that speeding motorists using horses as ping pong balls is the fault of cyclists?

And, I trust his friend who is a lorry driver reported this incident to the police, and that the incident can be independently verified and isn’t just made up to serve an agenda…?

August 1, 2019 at 8:26 am #947285
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brooksby

I think that rather than

I think that rather than ‘bouncing’, a horse hit by a speeding car would sort of crunch the front of the car, knocking the engine block toward the driver and probably KSI-ing the horse in the process.

A horse hit by a speeding bicycle would probably blink slowly, look around and wonder what that was, and then carry on eating grass.

August 1, 2019 at 8:16 am #947283
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Rick_Rude

I like the bit that ponies

I like the bit that ponies ‘are being used like ping-pong balls’ by drivers. Yes, Councillor Twat, I’m sure people are LITERALLY going out to crash their cars into large animals just for a laugh as apparently they bounce about like balls? Sounds like Rocket League but with animals! Will try tonight.

August 1, 2019 at 7:00 am #947281
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Hirsute

“Two of them bounced off the

“Two of them bounced off the front of his truck.”

Were they made of rubber ?
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