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giropaul

19 cars per mile
« on: 26 May, 2009, 07:28:49 pm »
A friend in the pub has just lent me a 1950 little book - "Every Cyclist's Pocket Book"

It's a total treasure trove of facts, mechanics, routes, records etc, from how to break in a new saddle to tandem frame angles, the Pembroke to London tricycle record to rail freight charges for bicycles.
I am attrated though to the paragraph

""Great Britain, with 19 motor vehicles to every mile, has the most crowded highways in the world."


It also states that there are between 10 and 12 million cyclists in GB!!
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David Martin

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Re: 19 cars per mile
« Reply #1 on: 26 May, 2009, 07:30:12 pm »
Thats a lot.. I'm lucky if I see one tenth of that..

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border-rider

Re: 19 cars per mile
« Reply #2 on: 26 May, 2009, 07:32:55 pm »
I can ride 19 miles round here,  and if I choose to avoid main roads I can probably see no cars at all more often than not.
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rogerzilla

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Re: 19 cars per mile
« Reply #3 on: 26 May, 2009, 07:33:19 pm »
In the South East it's about 250 vehicles per mile now.
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David Martin

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Re: 19 cars per mile
« Reply #4 on: 26 May, 2009, 07:35:04 pm »
Quote from: rogerzilla on 26 May, 2009, 07:33:19 pm
In the South East it's about 250 vehicles per mile now.

And that is on the 'empty' side roads.

..d
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Moloko

Re: 19 cars per mile
« Reply #5 on: 26 May, 2009, 07:36:07 pm »
Between 1am - 5am.
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rogerzilla

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Re: 19 cars per mile
« Reply #6 on: 26 May, 2009, 07:45:11 pm »
An average car is about 4 metres long.  Allow a metre at each end to manouevre in and out, and those 250 cars take up 3/4 of a mile just parked.  It's a good job some people have driveways.
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Sigurd Mudtracker

Re: 19 cars per mile
« Reply #7 on: 28 May, 2009, 05:15:18 pm »
I went out and did a 20 mile route a couple of Fridays ago, in the afternoon.  Some of it was on unclassified roads, but there was a significant proportion on A and B roads.

I saw 10 cars (including one JCB), and six of those were in the last 2 miles...
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Sigurd Mudtracker

Re: 19 cars per mile
« Reply #8 on: 28 May, 2009, 05:16:10 pm »
... of course by posting that, my next Friday ride will be hell...
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