[Closed] get a lynch mob at the ready...

6pm Monday?

Should give us plenty of time to sharpen the pitchforks 😀

I'm going to run the head offices over with this:

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Someone's having a Ratner moment.

If I did use Addison Lee for anything, then I wouldn't anymore !

And that old 'Cyclists should pay VED' chestnut..... Why isn't Mr Griffin demanding that drivers of low emmission vehicles pay also !!

T@*T

Does he have a brother called Nick?

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/addison-lee

Someone's having a Ratner moment.

+1, I read about his parity with black cabs for driving in bus lanes & thought fairy muff, but what a plonker.

me too zippy - I was prepared to go along with his view on taxi/black cab discrimination in bus lanes, but bollox to him now.

Addison Lee taxi company. Say no more. To get a job there I don't think you have to of passed a driving test.

Does he have a brother called Nick?

It's his uncle Peter that's the real barins of the family......

Misspelling of 'brains' in irony shocker.

Basically, I look a bit of a **** now...... 😳

It does prove that some taxi drivers can read and write, now if only some of them could drive and use mirrors nad indicators as well.

"Nad indicators"?

Do they help you tell whether a man or a woman is driving?

What a £$%&, love the way he has tried to retract large swathes of his initial article. Knowing that such articles will be in the public domain at the very best he is an idiot and not fit to run an organisation.

However that said I was in London recently and yes some of the standards of cycling are shocking as are some the standards of driving. I would not ride on a road in London as I would in the North.

Basically his initial article advocates driving into and over cyclists at will.

Would love to meet the muppet.

Mr Griffin also demanded that cyclists pay “road tax”. He wrote: “It is time for us to say to cyclists: ‘You want to join our gang, get trained and pay up’.”

Oh God, not again.

Rather the having messages about the Olympics on motorway signs, can we please re-educate people on 'road tax' please?

...re-educate people on 'road tax' please?

I was 're-educated' recently by someone telling me that there is 'no such thing as road tax, it isn't spent on our roads!' Unbelievably, apparently there is a whole website on this theme.

Um...yeah? Like alcohol tax isn't spent on alcohol? And tobacco tax isn't spent on tobacco?

'Road tax': a tax to use the roads, not needed on say a race car that doesn't use the roads, nothing to do with emissions because (e.g.) race cars, motocross bikes, and my lawn mower don't' pay it.

I don't think as bikers we should have to pay any road tax BTW.

I was 're-educated' recently by someone telling me that there is 'no such thing as road tax, it isn't spent on our roads!' Unbelievably, apparently there is a whole website on this theme.

Um...yeah? Like alcohol tax isn't spent on alcohol? And tobacco tax isn't spent on tobacco?

'Road tax': a tax to use the roads, not needed on say a race car that doesn't use the roads, nothing to do with emissions because (e.g.) race cars, motocross bikes, and my lawn mower don't' pay it.

I don't think as bikers we should have to pay any road tax BTW.

[url= http://ipayroadtax.com/ ]Read this.[/url]

I don't get Tuckers post, are you being ironic, or do you not know how VED works?

TuckerUK - Halfwit or Ironic Genius. Discuss.

Maybe pissed? Didn't make much sense to me.

The Times's explanation of VED vs. Road Tax was excellent.

Just last week one of his people carrier taxis nearly took me out when it dithered about turning left without indicating on the old kings road, Chelsea, yes it was ... No it wasn't... Slow down ... Speed up .. Yes it was.. Turn left indicating as you re already half around the corner.

All this will do is make his cabs cyclist enemy number one. I keep thinking about carry some stickers around to put on idiots windscreens: "don't hire me, my boss wants cyclist to die!"

Riding in London is indeed an errrr ... Interesting commute. There are plenty of idiots on bikes but way more in cars and to be fair the chances are a bike hits a car, oops sorry about the scratch. Whereas a car hits a bike, call the undertaker!

TBH having ridden in london for the last 15+ years Ive found the quality of driving to have improved enormously. TfL take training their bus drivers very seriously and there's quite a "chummy" dynamic with them now. Taxi drivers are looking for cyclists more too.

The sheer "critical" mass of cyclists has changed the dynamic of bikes vs vehicles on the road in london. TBH I spend more time now double-checking cyclists intentions rather than driver's 🙂

BUT, Addison Lee cars are so helpfully branded, which is just as well, as they are generally pretty poor around other road users.

what a ****t