Some Tweets that may ring true for you.

Those that follow Twitter may know @TonyArnold74 and follow some of his interesting tweets. Here is a thread of his on the hypocrisy of car cultures
Note: these are Tony’s tweets and not necessarily the views of WATAG – but there again, most of them may be!

• A person driving to the gym is a legitimate road user, but a person cycling to work is not.
• Cars killing 150 pedestrians each year is due to pedestrian distraction, but bicycles killing 1 pedestrian every 5 years is due to reckless cycling.
• Slowing cars to 30 km/h will impact on productivity, but bicycles traveling at 30 km/h are speeding irresponsibly.
• A roads budget of $20 billion is action, but a cycling budget of $0.05 billion is extravagance.
• A car squeezing past a bicycle is inconvenienced, but a person cycling past a car at traffic lights is a selfish jerk.
• The colour of your car is your choice (despite dark cars being less safe), but people who walk or cycle should wear bright clothing.
• Driving a car without a helmet is perfectly safe, but a a person riding a bicycle without a helmet has a death-wish.
• Millions of free car parking spaces is inadequate, but bicycle lanes are a waste of space.
• An inactive and unhealthy person should get free medical treatment, but an active and healthy person is a freeloader who should pay bike registration.
• Driving children to school in a massive, lethal and polluting car is responsible behaviour, but cycling to school with children is irresponsible.
• Motor vehicles need to be parked on every street to meet transport needs, but share bicycles are street clutter.
• $150 million in cost overruns and several years of delay for a freeway megaproject thru the middle of a city is reasonable. A couple million tacked onto a bike project to address long-standing pedestrian safety and stormwater issues is a bloated bike project that serves no one.
• Driving alone in a 2m wide car is fine but cyclists riding two abreast is crazy and selfish.
• Locating a new road that reduces times for motorists between important services is a Great Leap Forward but having a separate dedicated bike lane to those same destinations is a non-starter.
• Cycling while listening to music in headphones is dangerous. Driving inside a closed, sound isolated metal & glass box with a large stereo system blasting is perfectly safe & reasonable.
• If bikes go too fast, you get some dangerous infrastructure ASAP. If cars go too fast, move all other users elsewhere.
• A proposed short section of bike lane requires months of community consultation, whereas adding a $250,000 left turn bay does not.

Look up Tony if you’d like to add your own words of wisdom. Please don’t contact us!

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