To remove the bike from the rack you simply swipe your smart card throw, and when you replace your bike you swipe your card through again and you are refunded the deposit that you paid when you took the bike.

I would have thought that Boris would have seen them when he visited China.

I can send you photos if you like.

Albert Gazeley.

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Of course, there are issues – it’s clear car and bus drivers will need time to become accustomed to not only the presence of these lanes but accustomed to accommodating them as well. And vice versa since cyclists need to be aware and responsible for their part of this two way street. (Ha! Two way street. Sorry – puns. Helpless before them. Moving on.) Additionally, there are places where the lanes need to be widened or filled in.

Doubtless these cycle superhighways, like the bike share, will involve some growing pains and changes as real time information and user experience comes in. But again, like with the bike share, I must applaud all involved for getting on board with these initiatives, getting them implemented and committing themselves to making them work.

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I’m sure some adults can’t ride a bike; even though they can drive a car, as a car has 4 wheels so it never falls.

In my case, with a dirt poor background, having to walk barefoot selling roasted peanuts when young, I didn’t have a chance to learn how to ride a bike; my parents couldn’t afford to buy me a bike either.

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“The City of London has been found to be one of the most polluted places in Europe after monitoring equipment recorded dangerous levels of minute particles for the 36th time this year. Under EU rules, Britain is allowed no more than 35 “bad air” days in the whole year, and now faces court cases and unlimited fines by Europe.”

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Let us ignore for a minute the fact that much of the trumpeted reduction in traffic volume is almost certainly accounted for by a combination of sampling error and statistical techniques designed to achieve a pre-determined outcome.

With a government that brings the country to the verge of bankruptcy — as tootle’s Labour politicians have done — there will inevitably be a reduction in economic activity and therefore road traffic.  So, if a reduction in road traffic were demonstrably a measure of happiness, we ought really to be hoping for the return of the Labour administration.

As to tootle’s allusion to “the selfish motorist”, I find myself in agreement with him :  motorists are, after all, nothing more than the population in motion and, after sixty-five years of creeping socialism, they exhibit an attitude on the roads — as throughout modern society — of unrelenting selfishness :  what’s yours is mine, mate ;  what’s mine’s me own.

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In 2009, the overall motor vehicle traffic volume in Great Britain was 313.2 billion vehicle miles, down by 3.0 billion vehicle miles from last year.

This 1.0 per cent fall in overall traffic levels (which follows on from a 0.8 per cent fall between 2007 and 2008) is the first time motor vehicle traffic has fallen for two consecutive years since records began in 1949. However, traffic levels in 2009 were 7.9 per cent higher than in 1999.

These reductions have been achieved under Labour politicians. They are likely to be reversed under the new Tories who favour the selfish motorist.

Boris Johnson exemplifies this by cancelling the western extension of the Congestion Charge for reasons of spinelessness.

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To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

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