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	<title>Comments on: Confusion</title>
	<link>http://www.jog-blog.co.uk/2008/11/28/confusion/</link>
	<description>Rants and raves from an ex-30-something female runner, formerly in London, now in Kent</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Highway Kind</title>
		<link>http://www.jog-blog.co.uk/2008/11/28/confusion/#comment-2261</link>
		<dc:creator>Highway Kind</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like it when assumptions are challenged.

However it is difficult to be the cyclist waiting at the traffic lights whilst all the others sail on by, especially as you know you will be obstructed when you catch-up the slower ones. You just have to keep telling yourself that you are right and they are wrong.

Something needs to be done to change the attitudes so that cyclists see themselves as part of the traffic not a special group. 

There is a &lt;a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/03.11/01-mockus.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;great example&lt;/a&gt; of how it can be done, from Bogota where mimes were hired to follow pedestrians and mock them when they broke the traffic rules</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like it when assumptions are challenged.</p>
<p>However it is difficult to be the cyclist waiting at the traffic lights whilst all the others sail on by, especially as you know you will be obstructed when you catch-up the slower ones. You just have to keep telling yourself that you are right and they are wrong.</p>
<p>Something needs to be done to change the attitudes so that cyclists see themselves as part of the traffic not a special group. </p>
<p>There is a <a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/03.11/01-mockus.html" rel="nofollow">great example</a> of how it can be done, from Bogota where mimes were hired to follow pedestrians and mock them when they broke the traffic rules</p>
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