Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

Chuchote wrote: »

(a super plan that seems to have been shelved since its production in 2013).

What makes you think it's been shelved?

Landa has confirmed he's leaving Sky for Movistar
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mikel-landa-signs-two-year-deal-with-movistar/

Now, this is simply bat shoite crazy.

QUADRUPLE EVERESTING ATTEMPT

Starting in just a few hours, Mark Brocklehurst is looking to bag four non-stop Everest's. The Plan A (only one plan) is to rack up 116,116ft on a 308ft hill just outside Manchester, UK.
Mark has factored in 3x15 minute power naps over the estimated 84 hour, 525 mile ride (remember, there is a 2 hour sleep allowance for every subsequent everesting when completing multiples).

Mark will be joined by four buddies who will be doing their own Everesting with him, and he has a team from the University of Bolton, his charity Bolton Lads & Girls Club and an assortment of his family & friends.

The calculator shows Mark will be burning 36,400 calories! Both his body & mind are well prepared, and he looks forward to reporting back on Saturday night to tell us how it went.....

Get behind Mark here:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/mark-brocklehurst6

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LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Needs to be revoked. Madness that I can jump into a taxi on a Friday evening during rush hour and get ferried to the boozer in a bus lane skipping the traffic

I suspect the rationale is that a taxi is used over and over again during the shift by different people and is therefore a more efficient use of a vehicle rather than those users bringing their own private transport onto public roads and subsequently requiring parking etc.

Count me out lads! I'm off to new horizons now

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Out for a wander this evening and while being bet into kerbs by cars in the bus/cycle lane I got to musing as to why taxis are allowed to use the cycle lanes?

I mean why does a taxi with one passenger or even no passenger get priority over a private car?

Primarily there's the commercial aspect to it. Why would you take a taxi if it's no faster than driving yourself?

End result is that you have more private vehicle use, and therefore more congestion.

Taxis do serve a valuable public service for the elderly and disabled, so a reduction in taxis because people didn't use them, would be difficult on those groups.

But you also have to remember that one big problem with private vehicles is the fact that they sit idle 95% of the time. When someone gets where they want to go, the vehicle has to be left somewhere. And space is consumed doing basically nothing of value because there's a metal box lying in it waiting for its owner to come back. Fine out in the country where you've loads of space, but a disaster in the city.

So all transportation efforts should focus on making private vehicles the worst option for getting into urban areas. As a result, taxis are permitted to use bus lanes so that they present a superior option.