| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Another vanity project | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 24/07/18 15:30:00 |
| Ironically enough whenever I'm out on the bike now I hate to see cycle lanes on whatever route I'm on because I know the mere presence of the lane and the fact I'm not on it has the potential for someone in a car to not be as polite as the OP about how they'd like to see me riding in the cycle lane and issue a tirade of threats and abuse, not for the first time. The poster called 'Trevor' has hit the nail on the head and the problem is that cycle lanes benefit leisurely cyclists, families with kids etc., not the lycra brigade of which I guess I'm one. But I also agree entirely with Raymond, the problem nowadays is that the culture of local government these days is measured on targets and figures rather than any notion of merit or common sense, being it number of homes built, miles of cycle lanes and so forth. And as the funding pot ever shrinks, the use of nonsensical targets only increases. As I often say I don't know whether I admire or feel sorry for people who work in the public sector now, it's a thankless task and I genuinely think the way local authorities operate now makes staff within it less attractive to the private sector - indeed I was 'lucky' that my run-in with the powers that be at the last authority that employed me made me attractive to the private sector, in that they saw I wasn't afraid to challenge/question instructions rather than blindly doing as I was told. |