This Tweet from @bhlabour really pisses me off. It refers to this story in the Argus.
Up to £1.5 million could have to be handed back to the Government if officials dump plans for a three-mile bike lane.For those of you who don't know the road it is an alternating single and dual carriageway that cuts East-West from Brighton to Shoreham with many sections that carry a 40 mph speed limit. It is a major through route for traffic and can be quite congested at peak times. You would imagine from that description that it is motorists putting pressure on the council to drop the plans but
Brighton and Hove was one of the first places designated as a Cycling Demonstration Town by the Government and has been given £3 million to encourage bike use since 2005.
But there are fears the status could be lost if Brighton and Hove City Council backtracks on an agreement to construct the cycle path in Old Shoreham Road.
Gill Mitchell, the leader of the Labour group on the council, raised the concerns as the local authority stalled on revealing the results of the public consultation on the scheme.
Consultation on the scheme, which would see a designated path built between Portslade and Seven Dials in Brighton, ended in October.
When plans were revealed cycling campaigners criticised the scheme as “next to useless” because it featured gaps they said were dangerous for inexperienced riders.it is cycling groups that are objecting. @bhlabour wants a cycle lane to be constructed that cyclists don't want? Twats
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Haven't you learned yet? Labour always know best. It doesn't matter what the public want or need, Labour will decide for them.
If any twat is fuckwitted enough to ride a push bike, they NEED to be run down by some drunken East European truck driver any way, preferably BEFORE they fuck up the gene pool. So FUCK their "cycle paths". Bastard retards.
Hang on, whatever the merits of the scheme, scrapping it costs the taxpayer nary a penny, seeing as it would have been taxpayer-funded anyway.
Indeed MW - local tax funding matched by central tax funding.
The thing that annoys me about this story is the political capital that the Labour Party are trying to gain.
The scheme is crap. Cycling groups are opposed to it. There is no reason therefore to fuck up the road purely for the sake of it (apart from retaining the status of a 'cycle friendly' city).
Come on, like you were really expecting any thought behind a tweet from @bhlabour? Like so many Labour'ites they don't think, they simply react according to a well defined group think, take this tweet for example;
https://twitter.com/bhlabour/status/6677958775
"loves the Fiddler's Elbow, but not sure about them selling a cider named Thatcher's Heritage....that's a witches brew i ain't drinking!"
I can't ever see myself voting Labour (not that the Convervatives have made a convincing argument for a vote for them either) and, like a lot of people, I think our current Prime Minister is the worst in living memory, but that wouldn't stop me enjoying a Gordon's and tonic.
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