We need parked cars to protect our houses from traffic noise.
We must prioritise pedestrians (then drivers) to save the NHS.
It will take eighteen months to get the double yellow lines in. So no point.
Double yellow lines? What double yellow lines? Where else will I park?
Pavement parking protects our children because otherwise drivers will drive too fast.
Drivers go faster now the protected cycle lanes are in.
Old people will trip over the defenders (in the road).
Sorry, there are not enough resources for enforcement.
Dropped kerbs are for parking on. Where else will I park?
Don’t be stupid, no one cycles in this busy dangerous road.
We have to park on the pavement otherwise emergency services won’t get through.
A single yellow line is sufficient for safe cycling and only at school times.
Wanting protected cycle lanes means you don’t support access for disabled people.
Wanting protected cycle lanes means you hate disabled people.
Don’t be stupid. Disabled people don’t cycle.
Children should walk to school, not cycle. Everyone walked in my day (1950s).
What do you mean it’s not safe? I cycled to school alone every day in that street (1950s).
Speed cameras and parking fines are revenue raisers for the clowncil.
Our business will die without the parking space outside it that we use to park our own cars.
I’m proud of my campaign against the 20mph roll out.
Fix pot holes and pavements instead of putting in expensive cycle lanes.
(In this densely populated neighbourhood) our customers all come by car (to buy small things).
Cyclists don’t shop.
Cyclists take over our villages and our cafes.
Cyclists are noisy.
Protected cycle lanes increase air pollution.
I’m a cyclist myself, but…
I’m all for cycling. But not this scheme. Or that one either.
Low traffic neighbourhoods lock disabled people into their houses.
Traffic evaporation is a lie, made up by the people who made up climate change.
Traffic inducement is also a lie, made up by the same idiots that made up traffic evaporation.
They can’t have a low traffic street because I live in a heavily trafficked street. It’s not fair.
People who live in low traffic neighbourhoods should pay higher council tax.
I will have to drive further and that will cause more pollution.
My visitors will have nowhere to park (I have two off-street parking spaces instead of a garden).
Drivers need to drive more miles and more often to maintain their skills during lockdown.
Cyclists need to understand that they make drivers nervous.
Closing that street to vehicle traffic will kill the high street (from the people who shop in out of area supermarkets).
We can’t have drivers queuing up behind stopped buses and therefore there’s no room for a cycle lane.
I’m just going in for a coffee, so is my mate and his mate, all morning.
I know there is a parking space over there but I’m parking here (on DYLs). So F*** off.
You can share that bus lane with buses and taxis, although it doesn’t operate 24 hours a day, and no, it isn’t scary at all.
The majority of people in the consultation want to keep the space for driving and parking – so that settles it.
You never use the (parked in/full of glass/isolated at night/just paint) lane so you aren’t getting any more.
Business said we shouldn’t do it (we helped with the press lines).
We weren’t individually consulted (if we were we would have vetoed the scheme).
We have to park on the pavement because that’s outside our house
SMIDSY.
Bloody cyclists don’t pay road tax or insurance or wear a helmet or hi-vis.
We need to build more capacity for cars. Two lanes each way isn’t enough.
Air pollution? What air pollution?
We can fix it all with electric vehicles.
CONGESTION!
Hard pressed motorists.
The war on cars.
We need the money for the bypass/dualing/extra lane/new roundabout.
It will increase journey times for our car journeys under five miles.
The Disabled.
The Economy.
The Inconvenience (of motorists).
I can’t find my way around the city any more in my car. It’s outrageous.
Cyclists filter past when I’m queuing in traffic. Wankers.
Cyclists jump red lights and ride on the pavement and ride three abreast.
A cyclist once almost ran me over.
Every day I am nearly hit by cyclists.
These things take time. Be patient.
We need to take the residents with us.
My cousin’s old auntie was nearly hit by a cyclist.
When I see them I drive at them deliberately.
You don’t live in the area and can’t have a say.
I drive through this area, why don’t I get a say?
Low traffic neighbourhood filters will cause lots of u-turns and be dangerous for children.
Residents should be consulted (a referendum so that they can maintain the status quo).
‘Go away, you’re rude’ (driver of SUV with engine running, and blocking a cul-de-sac outside a nursery when challenged on air pollution).
My elderly neighbour is having their mobility reduced because I drive them to the GP surgery, 300 metres away, and it will take two minutes longer.
Last night I saw an invisible cyclist with dark clothes and no helmet. INVISIBLE!
This list was compiled from from things I read, saw and heard last year as reasons for blocking the installation of protected cycle lanes, and ending pavement parking. Additions were made by people on Twitter.
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