Bicycles on Nugent Hill. Again.

One day in the week, our drive up Nugent Hill was interrupted by this woman pushing a bicycle with a small child on it up the road.

Madam, if you are going to push the bike up a hill, could you make it Ninetree Hill, which, having already been closed to cars, is not disrupted by a cyclist walking up it.

Later on in the week, something worse. The entire road closed while officials -in hi-viz- make some film shoot which apparently required no adults in the shot, and cars blocked from this road while these teenagers pretended to play.

Such media coverage will only reinforce the myth that teenagers should ride bicycles and roads are a safe place for them to do it. It is a an affront for our TV licensing tax to be frittered away on pro-cycling propaganda!

Still, if there is one thing that takes the edge of this offence, it's the Copenhagen Cycle Chic people complaining their roads were taken away for car adverts.  That evens things out.

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Alquiler de coches por Internet

En los viajes veraniegos, bien será por necesidad o por elección, se suele recurrir al alquiler de vehículos. Decía que por elección, porque a veces es mejor evitarse los problemas del atasco de ida y vuelta al destino usando el tren o el avión, y una vez en dicho destino alquilar un coche para disfrutar de la movilidad que aporta.

Si tenemos que alquilar un coche, una buena opción es la web www.tualquilerdecoches.com, con cobertura nacional e internacional y a través de la cual tenemos acceso a las mejores empresas de este sector.

A través de la web podemos buscar la opción que más se adecúe a nuestras necesidades: coche, furgoneta, monovolumen… usando para ello el sistema de búsqueda en el que podemos indicar dónde queremos recoger el coche, dónde lo vamos entregar o las fechas. Según indican en la misma web, el mejor precio está garantizado, no hay costes ocultos ni comisiones, la confirmación de la reserva es inmediata, se puede operar tanto nacional como internacionalmente y cubren todas las ciudades de España, así como las estaciones de tren y aeropuertos.

Resumiendo, un cómodo y eficaz método de búsqueda, una oferta amplia y ajustada en precio y una confirmación en el momento de la reserva del automóvil. Sencillo.Si usamos internet para buscar hoteles y vuelos agrupando en un sólo lugar la oferta, usémoslo del mismo modo cuando vayamos a alquilar un coche.

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Sita, continuing their sponsorship

On the day that the Barclays Bike Hire scheme starts in London, we are pleased to see that Sita Van WX51HBF is busy showing how the outsourced waste collection team of Bristol are proud to support the cycle lanes of the city, here at the end of the St Werburgh's to North Fringe route. If the connection to Dovercourt Road goes through -note how we say if- then this will be the premier route between the two main employment hubs in the city.

The placement of the van at the end of the cycle lane will ensure that everyone travelling between either destination will see the van and appreciate what Sita and their staff do for the city.

We think everyone should visit this Sita van, which is usually parked here between 09:00 and 10:00 every Friday, and congratulate them for their contribution. That is, we should all drive there and thank them for making this part of town more miserable to the cyclists. As for the cyclists, well, they should be grateful for this work crew reminding everyone coming into town on the forthcoming North Fringe route that they are in fact not welcome in the city. Better to get the hint in a controlled, safe, manner than to discover the harsh truth in a near-death incident.

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