Lollipop Ladies Back McGrath On Cyclists

Jawgap

Linky

My own favourite is the cyclist who 'huddled' abuse at someone they were supposed to have clobbered with the bike.......

I'm not saying cyclists are angels, but the press release looks and reads like something from Irish Pictorial Weekly!!

ashleey

That's mad Ted

bazermc

ashleey wrote: »

That's mad Ted

Mcgrath should get a whistle like Benson in the wheelchair!!!!!

mcgratheoin

LOL @ "Lolly Pop"

"Another man just met a lovely old lady"

It's like something out of d'Unbelievables!

Fathead

"nit by a cyclist"


Feckin Nits

QueensGael

'These Wardens and Lolly Pop Ladies regularly talk about “the cavalier attitude of some cyclists”"

I'm sure they regularly talk about lots of things, sure how else would WhineLine fill the hour & quarter

Jawgap

QueensGael wrote: »

'These Wardens and Lolly Pop Ladies regularly talk about “the cavalier attitude of some cyclists”"
.....

He may have a point there actually, I posted this elsewhere but it does - unfortunately - illustrate his point. There are people out there with a cavalier attitude to cycling and the rules of the road - it's a point I think we can all accept........

ashleey

The chaplain to King Charles I, Edward Simmons described a Cavalier as "a Child of Honour, a Gentleman well borne and bred, that loves his king for conscience sake, of a clearer countenance, and bolder look than other men, because of a more loyal Heart.

Dermot Illogical

ashleey wrote: »

The chaplain to King Charles I, Edward Simmons described a Cavalier as "a Child of Honour, a Gentleman well borne and bred, that loves his king for conscience sake, of a clearer countenance, and bolder look than other men, because of a more loyal Heart.

In that case there aren't as many of them around as Finian and the LLs would have us believe.

ashleey

I can just picture people dressed like the 3 musketeers ploughing through zebra crossings and challenging lollipop ladies to a duel.

Alternatively, FM is just an idiot

Brian?

I assume lollipop men are all paedos. Sure wasn't another cyclist telling so last week.

The above holds as much weight as the ****e Finian McGrath comes out with.

Potatoeman

If he thinks thats bad wait until he sees statistics on people killed and maimed by motorists.

goose06

This is some talented cyclist:

"Young woman in Marino nit by a cyclist while stepping off a bus. He was cycling between bus and pavement. He huddled abuse at her and she was out of work for six months."

The cyclist got off the bus and nit a young woman and then he huddled her with abuse and she was off work for 6 months,

DavyD_83

He's just trying to draw attention away from all the hairy babies appearing around Ireland

TonyStark

Congrats to the man, he has secured the white van and taxi driver vote and a half a dozen pensioners.

Dermot Illogical

goose06 wrote: »

This is some talented cyclist:

"Young woman in Marino nit by a cyclist while stepping off a bus. He was cycling between bus and pavement. He huddled abuse at her and she was out of work for six months."

The cyclist got off the bus and nit a young woman and then he huddled her with abuse and she was off work for 6 months,

Spelling mistakes aside, this one doesn't make sense. OK...none of them make sense, but let's leave that aside for a moment. A bus properly stopped doesn't leave enough room for that manoeuver.

However Marino/Fairview does have a cycle track running alongside the footpath, and it has a couple of bus stops on it. What are the odds the young lady in question, assuming she exists, stepped off the bus and updated her status into hospital by walking straight into the cycle lane? Cue abuse-huddling.

RobertFoster

I believe I saw his picture on the Adshel at the Dollymount end of the Clontarf cycle track. Large, big brother style, keeping an eye out for all those cycling bastards. I didn't know he was an independent, I thought he might actually have some power.

His blog/press writer could do with some training on spelling, grammar, and how to quote someone in a less jarring manner.

rollingscone

Cycling is my primary mode of transport (I'd say sole but cycling to the bathroom in the middle of the night was more hassle than it's worth) and I'd say in the City centre and closer suburbs that I do see a vast amount of stupid behaviour by cyclists, but that the vast majority of that stupidity endangers the Cyclists in question and their fellow cyclists.

The only notable exceptions are footpath pedaliers (who should have shoes welded to their wheels in punishment) and people blazing through red lights. Which to be fair to the execrable creatures known as RLJers is pretty rare, most of them check if there are peds then pedal through lights out into junctions, or are just so slow and clueless that they'd stuggle to kill a souffle.

People garnering cycling a reputation for danger are on the other hand painfully common.

On my way back from a spin today I encountered in one sitting, a knees over knuckles man on a Dublin bike who shuffled through a metre wide gap between a Dublin bus and a coach, then ran a red light. When I next noticed him he was undertaking me and then the left indicating at a junction 40ft lorry that I was purposefully stopped behind, and also a lady bike riding lady in flowy shirt who similarly cut through breathlessly close to cars, weaved through a dense jungle of traffic and ran red lights but did it all wearing headphones in both ears and with the air of someone whose mind was attending to more important matters elsewhere.

Not to start on the number of Salmon on the one way system on South Richmond street, or the people in Canal Cycle Path (and sometimes on the surrounding roads) that have no conception of a two way system.

Their potential harm to peds is limited, but their potential harm to other cyclists and cycling in general is huge.

That said, Finian McGrath is a populist George Galloway impersonator who should be exiled to space.

hardCopy

QueensGael wrote: »

'These Wardens and Lolly Pop Ladies regularly talk about “the cavalier attitude of some cyclists”"

I'm sure they regularly talk about lots of things, sure how else would WhineLine fill the hour & quarter

It's all "Cavalier this" and "Cavalier that" among the lolli-people of North Dublin.

One motorist said in relation to cyclists “if you criticise these untouchables” then they equate your comments to being anti-Semitic or anti-gay”.

I imagine hordes of Cavalier gay jews marauding around Beaumont huddling abuse at all and sundry on their unregistered bikes.

On a serious note, he gives the impression that he is speaking for Traffic Wardens as a block but gives no indication of whether he has spoken to a random group of lollipop people or just one, or maybe he just made it all up.

Do traffic wardens have a representative body or union that he could have been speaking for?

Harry Angstrom

How do you "huddle abuse" at somebody??

And this fella was a teacher in a former life :rolleyes:

Oryx

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

How do you "huddle abuse" at somebody??

And this fella was a teacher in a former life :rolleyes:

Principal of a primary school. You'd think he would know how to proof read his own blog, then.

doozerie

Deputy Finian McGrath T.D. has warmly welcomed the huge response to the cyclists’ issue.

Poor Finian, even the simple misplaced apostrophe is able to outwit him. So Finian is championing the thing that all cyclists have an issue with, rather than championing the view that cyclists are the issue. Well done Finian, good stuff. Incidentally, you yourself are the thing we take issue with so berate yourself away there like a good man.