jmayo wrote: » don't be a fooking pane.
rubadub wrote: » Who pays for them so? surely its not volunteers building the with free materials? I would have thought it comes from a similar source as the money for footpaths. I don't think its exlusive to cyclists. I think pedestrians can legitimately use cycleways, not sure about cycletracks -though cycletracks are where you see most pedestrians wandering dangerously onto. Pedestrians -the other road users who pay no motor tax, along with these yes, most governments worldwide think so. Ever stop to think you might be the odd one out?
Mr McGrath asked Finance Minister Michael Noonan questions in the Dail on the different taxes imposed on drivers. He then added the figures together and calculated that the total paid in various taxes last year amounted to €4.3bn. Tax on petrol alone amounted to €850m last year, with diesel generating €1.13bn for the State. Motor tax came in at €1.1bn.
jmayo wrote: » So are you one of the ones who clogs up the roads of North Wicklow most weekends or even some spring/summer evenings ? Would you be of the type that decides to saunder along two or three abreast holding up traffic ? Would you be one of the ones that reckons lights are optional on a dark evening ? Would you be one of the eejits that reckons the lycra shouldn't make you stand out, but actually blend in ? You know the ones that wear black or dark tops/shorts in winter, but look like a moving add for dyno rod or are off to take part in Rio's Mardi Gra during the summer. Would you be one of the ones that refuses to pull your car in on a narrow road because the very expensive bike that sticking out at the back might get an old scrap on the bushes and briars ? You know I now nearly applaud anyone I see out cycling to actually get somewhere. You know the type that doesn't have shoes on that make you walk like you are newly converted to acting as a drag queen. The type that doesn't have skin tight shorts/tights or have a top that has more adds on it than a billboard. Some mornings I used to meet an old guy on what looked like a high nellie. I would give him a wide berth any day of the week. And you know some morning he would raise his hand. Perish the thought the numpties with their very expensive ABC1 social group bikes, that they most likely bought (fraudently I would say) through the bike to work scheme, would ever do that. And one of the worse things to now suffer is to have to listen to a bunch of weekend cyclists discuss their cleats, their shimanos, their derailers, their iphone monitoring apps. Go for a cycle fine, but remember other people like the natives use the road and don't be a fooking pane.
Spook_ie wrote: » When its even freer because you don't pay at all, let alone follow traffic regulations
Spook_ie wrote: » Yes we all know that, they pay nothing extra for having facilities provided for their exclusive use, an exclusive use that they don't even have to use, good that isn't it?
CramCycle wrote: » Taxis use bike lanes as car parks and pick up points, you keep saying exclusive use but all evidence points to the contrary. I have become unfazed by it but on a typical morning, the one outside my house is full of either parked cars or cars using it as a left turn lane (legally a bike lane only). The next one, again is a left turn lane and a straight ahead filter lane at several points(legally a bike lane only), and in between is somewhere for joggers to use so they don't bump into pedestrians or have to step up and down with driveway entrances. After this the next one becomes a "I am only stopping for two minutes to pop in the shops", (legally a bus lane/with bike lane painted on, so it inhibits quite a few). The next one is a typical park here if your working nearby because either you can see your car to run out or its accepted that clampers don't care in that area. Next one is another traffic lane at peak times. After that I actively avoid the next one due to Dublin Bike usage and sin e, although I have seen photos of vans parked in it although this appears to be rare enough. Exclusive use, my @rse,
Spook_ie wrote: » The lack of enforcement isn't my concern, the fact is that they are legislated for cyclists exclusivity, go see your local inspector if taxis are making a rank on a cycle lane, if you get nowhere report it to the GSOC but don't tell me that the cycle infrastructure isn't provided FOC with exclusivity
jmayo wrote: » Perish the thought the numpties with their very expensive ABC1 social group bikes,
Spook_ie wrote: » Who pays for them, well I'd imagine the people that pay to use the roads pay more towards them than the people who actually use them.
seamus wrote: » A taxi driver waxing lyrical about paying tax and obeying traffic laws :pac: Hilarious. You should do stand-up.
ThisRegard wrote: » Someone might do that, when you lobby you local TD to bring in bike tax, I recommend Finnian McGrath if your local one laughs at you.
Spook_ie wrote: » Really, I thank you, next show is at 6 Eden Quay, see you there
ThisRegard wrote: » You'll be the one with half the car stuck into the main traffic flow because there's not enough room to get a full car into the rank and fecked if your going to be civil and drive elsewhere so you don't impede others ?
CramCycle wrote: » It would be interesting since you keep bringing up this point to see the stats on who contributes more to the economy per person. I wonder does the CSO keep tabs on lets say, who contributes more to the economy, an average commuting cyclist or an average taxi driver. Until we see the numbers though, its a bit of a stupid point to bring up as I suspect, you may in fact, be wrong.
CramCycle wrote: » Its not provided free of charge though, no one said it was. Personally I wish it wasn't provided at all as such a piss poor job of design and implementation has been reached that nothing short of starting from scratch will fix the cluster f*ck that is cycle lanes in our nations cities. There are a few that work but they are few and far between. I have paid towards them, so have you, so have many people from the EU. I didn't ask for them though. I appreciate the sentiment but not the execution. What I did say though was that they are not exclusive, take legal all you want but in the real world, cycle lanes are rarely exclusive to cyclists, and to say otherwise is being facetious. When I call the taxi regulator, do I wait there for someone to call round, if they laugh at me do I call GSOC, if they laugh at me, who next. Oh wait, I don't call them because I have a job, which I have to be at, which paid for the ****ty cycle lanes that I can rarely use, so excuse me if I don't buy your "exclusive" "FOC" cycle lanes BS.
Spook_ie wrote: » Well according to the newspaper link, it's reckoned that motorists contribute 10% of the tax take, some €4.3 billion last yearhttp://www.independent.ie/life/motoring/clobbered-drivers-pay-10pc-of-total-tax-take-30321308.html
ThisRegard wrote: » You need to get with it, you keeping posting stories from a year or several ago. The figures in that story are over 2 years old at this point. But you do realise most of us who cycle are also motorists, and also pay into this fund ? Or do you want to do your ****ty merry dance again on this ?
Spook_ie wrote: » No if the taxi regulator laughs at you you don't report them to the GSOC, you report the taxi regulator to the NTA
mathie wrote: » And how much is spent on treating people suffering from unhealthy lifestyles who choose sitting in their car over exercise?
smash wrote: » Is this a real argument?
Spook_ie wrote: » OMG, which bit of this sentence is so foreign to you, you PAY motor tax, petrol duties etc for the use of THAT vehicle on the road, because you have paid for THAT vehicle it does not translate that you have therefore paid to use a DIFFERENT vehicle on the road, likewise it doesn't translate that you have paid to use a cycle on a cycle lane
mathie wrote: » I'd assumed this thread had entered parody a long time ago.
CramCycle wrote: » I am one of those motorists, my point was an average commuting cyclist vs an average taxi driver. Most commuting cyclists will also so be motorists, it's not quite as simple as you make it out to be. You said GSOC, I have no idea who to report it too other than the taxi regulator would think I was prank calling them. If they work out of hours send them up to the double yellow lines in Ranelagh any evening of the week for easy targets. The bike lane at Christchurch after you come round the bull and castle. There are a hundred more examples. It never bothers me, I indicate and move round and into the flow of traffic but I long gave up on the preposterous idea that cycle lanes are exclusively for cyclists, much like a number of other road users did a long time ago.
RainyDay wrote: » based on current law, it does translate that a tax compliant cyclist HAS paid to use their bike on the road, in exactly the same way that your beloved motorist HAS paid to use their car on the road.
