Vicious Cycle - Video

cyclig makes more sense in big cities - lets make the city a 10 km cycle walk zone ban the cars!

I began to write a tirade on how, being a Kiwi living in Southern California, I am suprised to watch and read about this, but then I realised this isn't really so much of a suprise.

I describe New Zealand to friends here as fowardly backward, hmm why's that? Alot of New Zealand tries to be mature, but it (the good ol kiwi bloke and shela) hasnt grown up and cottoned onto the fact that its OK to have a maturity passed that of a teenager and God forbid shows some responsibility and not be a dork twenty fours hours a day

Enough with the finger pointing, both groups need to grow up and take responsibility. Cyclists loose the attitude and respect everyone else on the road (your more likely to get road rash if you crash, regardless of who's at fault), motorists get used to it, there will be bikes on the road for years to come. Remember, you take a cyclist out and they die, you will have done that, not your car, you the driver, their blood is on your hands.

GET OVER IT PEOPLE, its not that complicated, just realise no one wins when people get killed, or has the intelligence level dropped so far in kiwi land that uh duh, no one can figure that one out, eh mate, yeah mate, no worries mate,and all that knuckle dragging crap.

For such an awesome country its a shame there are so many idiots that live there.

And for the record, I ride road and mountain bike, I drive sixty miles to work and back everyday. I can approach this as a cyclist, motorist.

Please keep in mind those individuals featured in this story that have either been killed or injured , and also their famlies, their wives, husbands, partners, sons, daughters, and think how you would feel if it was your family that was impacted forever because some idiot thought they'd have a laugh, didn't look, or was just down right lazy and didnt pay attention, have a good long think about it and then honestly say if you want that for you or your family, yeah mate.

Its time the government put cycle lanes at the top of their agenda. Cyclists should be safe, it keeps people fit, lowers carbon emmissions and reduces the pile up of traffic in Auckland. It can only make sense to have cycle lanes in as many places as possible - take a look at Denmark, where something like 30% of the population in Copenhagen cycle to work without crash helmets!!! In reality it will take so long to achieve due to red tape and arguements in Council that we will see a lot more deaths from cars not seeing cyclists and yet they ban mobile phones first for 20 demerit points and $80 - how many lives have been lost due to mobile phone use versus cyclists getting hit by cars!!! And they say New Zealand is Clean and Green - Yeah Right - said the Tui advert!