john: that clip of the near miss is missing the next 30 seconds where the cylist rolls up to the driver and bangs on his window. yells at him, then spits in his face.nice.btw. I say this as a cyclist myself – I have seen this happen before.

If the police, dont do anything about such behaviour what do you expect, sure spitting is an over reaction, but driving like this which occurs all to often deserves at least a verbal rebuke. This driver deserves a massive fine, or to lose their licence, only when police take action against such drivers will the road be safe. There was no excuse to go into the cycle lane to overtake someone, none.

Matt: I would disagree that events such as Enviro week and Ride to Work Day don’t to anything for promoting sustainable behaviour change.The follow up results from Ride to Work Day 2008 prove that 39% of first time commuters were still riding to work at least once per month 5 months after the event and 55% of survey participants are riding more often than the same time lastyear.Read for yourself at: http://www.bv.com.au/ride-to-work/30057/

That doesn’t really show any sort of conclusive proof though. Given that only 800 first time riders responded to the survey. So that’s only 359 that are riding to work at least once a month (so the day had no effect on over half of the first time riders). Only 13% (90) rode on more than one day of the survey week. This doesn’t take into account that some of the first time riders already rode a bike to work (pg 21)

I find that these days are good at raising awareness of issues, and if people want to cycle to work already then it could be a motivator. But I don’t think they have any big effect on making people into communter cyclists (as the survey shows)

The follow up results from Ride to Work Day 2008 prove that 39% of first time commuters were still riding to work at least once per month 5 months after the event and 55% of survey participants are riding more often than the same time last year.

Read for yourself at: http://www.bv.com.au/ride-to-work/30057/

nice.

btw. I say this as a cyclist myself – I have seen this happen before.

James: Surely the “omg what is this world coming too” is a pretty clear indicator of a spam bot?

yeah spam bots leave opinions differing from the minority, i see where its going, its not childish at all..

Surely the “omg what is this world coming too” is a pretty clear indicator of a spam bot?

BTW can you do something about spambots leaving auto comments?

Uh… what auto comments?

Thank you for taking the time to write to us. Like you we were pretty cranky at Magda’s performance on Monday night. She made a blue and has issued a public apology below.
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followed by a copy of Magdas non public apology.

This is pathetic. You cannot have someone working as an ambassador for you if she does nothing but discourage one of THE BEST things people can do to help the environment in their everyday life.

Ta.

I cant believe the magda had to apologize, omg what is this world coming too, to many loud minorities is our problem.