On Wednesday, you may recall, we reported (link is external)that cyclists in Hove had lodged a petition to have “well-planned and high-quality permanent cycle lanes” installed on the Old Shoreham Road, after a pop-up bike lane was removed by local councillors in November 2021.

A counter-petition was created urging the council to keep the Old Shoreham Road cycle lane free – though as the Brighton Argus made clear in their questionable front pages, both petitions were the target of jokesters (though the Argus, in their haste to make the story all about a fake Hitler signature, neglected to mention in their report that 200 bogus, duplicate or triplicate names had been added to the anti-cycle lane petition).

In any case, the two petitions were brought in front of Brighton and Hove City Council last night. Unfortunately, despite local cyclist Darren Callow’s best efforts to convince the council that the cycle lane would leave a “positive legacy for future generations”, he was greeted with some familiar tropes from councillors opposed to the proposed scheme:

Both petitions for and against the Old Shoreham Road cycle lane have been referred to the council’s environment, transport and sustainability committee for another round of almost certainly tedious back-and-forth.

If you don’t have much on this weekend, you can watch last night’s meeting at this link (link is external). Don’t forget to stock up on popcorn…

https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-8-april-2022-291777#live-blog-item-33181

On 08/04/2022 03:28 pm, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:

> On Wednesday, you may recall, we reported (link is external)that fairy-cyclists in Hove had lodged a petition to have “well-planned and high-quality permanent fairy-cycle lanes” installed on the Old Shoreham Road, after a pop-up fairy-bike lane was removed by local councillors in November 2021.
>
> A counter-petition was created urging the council to keep the Old Shoreham Road fairy-cycle lane free – though as the Brighton Argus made clear in their questionable front pages, both petitions were the target of jokesters (though the Argus, in their haste to make the story all about a fake Hitler signature, neglected to mention in their report that 200 bogus, duplicate or triplicate names had been added to the anti-fairy-cycle lane petition).
>
> In any case, the two petitions were brought in front of Brighton and Hove City Council last night. Unfortunately, despite local fairy-cyclist Darren Callow’s best efforts to convince the council that the fairy-cycle lane would leave a “positive legacy for future generations”, he was greeted with some familiar tropes from councillors opposed to the proposed scheme:
>
> Both petitions for and against the Old Shoreham Road fairy-cycle lane have been referred to the council’s environment, transport and sustainability committee for another round of almost certainly tedious back-and-forth.
>
> If you don’t have much on this weekend, you can watch last night’s meeting at this link (link is external). Don’t forget to stock up on popcorn…
>
> https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-8-april-2022-291777#live-blog-item-33181

The usual road.cc failure to write grammatically and with correct
punctuation.

Do they get the local nursery school to do their typing for them?

Just some kid I used to know.
@Daren68
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20h
Actually got a "some of my constituents are keen cyclists" from a councillor. I had to laugh.
Adam Bronkhorst
@AdamBronkhorst
Replying to
@Daren68
Well done Darren. You were great and I was laughing with you. Some of the falsehoods and blatant lies said tonight were very disturbing. Im disappointed the whole thing wasn’t resolved tonight & it drags onto another ETS meeting. But great job though from you and thanks so much.

TO BE CONTINUED...

On 08/04/2022 16:07, JNugent wrote:
> On 08/04/2022 03:28 pm, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:

>> <https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-8-april-2022-291777#live-blog-item-33181>

> The usual road.cc failure to write grammatically and with correct
> punctuation.

> Do they get the local nursery school to do their typing for them?

I thought it was a site populated by an infinite number of monkeys
sitting at typewriters.

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Spike

On 08/04/2022 16:12, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
> Just some kid I used to know.
> @Daren68
·
> 20h
> Actually got a "some of my constituents are keen cyclists" from a councillor. I had to laugh.
> Adam Bronkhorst
> @AdamBronkhorst
> Replying to
> @Daren68
> Well done Darren. You were great and I was laughing with you. Some of the falsehoods and blatant lies said tonight were very disturbing. Im disappointed the whole thing wasn’t resolved tonight & it drags onto another ETS meeting. But great job though from you and thanks so much.

> TO BE CONTINUED...

SAFER CYCLISTS FOR ROADS. YKIMS.

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Spike

12:17
‘But why can’t we be like the Netherlands?’

see:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1512108507054620682