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Spongeman99

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  • I thought that at first but it just sounds too near, that and I’ve heard nothing else all weekend. by Spongeman99 (Sun 12th Sep 2021 10:21pm)
  • There’s blame on all sides. I drive, cycle and walk around the west end/city centre. All three have people causing accidents. There’s the idiots running red lights and speeding everywhere in their cars. There’s cyclists riding fast on the pavement and also running red lights (honestly often more dangerous than cars, you see the cars easier than someone on a modded e-bike flying between cars) Then there’s pedestrians that cross without looking/run across when it’s a red man. The amount of time I’m driving or cycling and someone just walks out on the road without looking is actually ridiculous post covid (folks driving has also got so much worse aswell) All three categories need to pay attention, this isn’t just one sides fault by Spongeman99 (Fri 10th Feb 2023 10:06pm)
  • From what I have seen it’s mostly to force businesses to update their vehicles. We’ve all seen the old buses/taxis/trucks spewing out black smoke. I don’t know if the council have to appear fair and not just target the big companies thus have to enforce it to everyone. It’s roughly petrol vehicles after 2005 and diesel vehicles after 2015 but there will be some that fall outside of those though. Classic cars, emergency services aswell don’t need to pay/abide by it I think. I get why people are saying it’s another tax against the working class but how many people need to drive into the city centre? Its not a huge area that is classed in the zone you really need to drive into most of the time. Ontop of that it only affects you if you are driving a a heavily polluting car. by Spongeman99 (Mon 27th Feb 2023 12:15pm)
  • I will start this with saying I drive, cycle daily and walk throughout the city. They are defiantly not perfect by any means but they are better than the majority of the junctions in the city. The Glasgow bridge one was worse until they recently improved it. The main reason anyone is going to have any issues at those spaces is by running red lights. I would much rather have fully segregated spaces like other places in the city has but let be honest, that isn’t happening anytime soon. The amount of cyclists that run lights really doesn’t help the case, no matter how many safer junctions are built it won’t stop people being Fannies and running a red and being hit. Same with big lorries and shit, just stay back from them and stay in the visible spots. by Spongeman99 (Fri 4th Aug 2023 4:35pm)