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« Last post by road-runner on Yesterday at 08:22:45 pm »
I will add that I agree too as I see in Slovakia what the future could otherwise be in the UK. Over here I wouldn say that by and large (by which I mean about 95%) of cyclists now ride on the pavement. As a road rider I get hooted at often. Road deaths here are approximately 3 times those in the UK, albeit here the population is only 1/12th of the size of the UK.
The arguments presented above really require not just laws to make such large domestic vehicles less desirable but also a change in national culture, like happened with smoking, so that by far the majority do not want suburban battle tanks being on the school, office and shop runs.