Cycling may be beneficial to health (as long as your lungs don't get damaged by the fumes and you don't collide with a motorised vehicle) but frankly, only a minority of the population risk life and limb in this way and it clearly has done very little to ease traffic congestion. Indeed this method of conveyance is a hazard and a nuisance to vehicular traffic, forcing everyone to slow to a crawl and adding even further to traffic fumes.
I have never understood why, when the government subsidise railways with millions of pounds, they do not make more funding available for buses. If fares were a lot cheaper and buses were more convenient and frequent, this would reduce traffic congestion significantly.
It's such an obvious good use of the public purse and I am surprised that the governments over the years have not done more in this area.
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Originally Posted by Paul M
The UK simply doesnt have the weather to make cycling to work all the while something people would do.
Who wants to be out on a bike, travelling to work, in the freezing snow & ice, or pooring rain.
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Yes, this is obvious to those of us living in the real world.