To say cycling is polluting is wrong and that’s a fact
REGARDING A Driver’s letter
defending their theory of “additional pollution “.
A D is disingenuous, their original letter argued that cycling was anti-social, bad for the environment and causes pollution.
The word “additional” in this context, is meaningless.
A D implies that I have not understood their letter and that my test was not objective, logical or representative.
Wrong on all counts!
The test illustrated facts. Facts that were not based on opinions or prejudice.
The logic of cycling and driving the same 25 mile journey is sound. It would be illogical to cycle and repeat the journey, in a helicopter, for example.
The illustrated facts were simple, cars have to slow down, stop, accelerate, manoeuvre for many and varied reasons. To extrapolate those facts to describe any journey in the UK is not unreasonable.
A D’s description of “additional pollution” is a similar argument to the convoluted nonsense the car manufacturers claimed to justify fiddling emission figures.
The courts disagreed.
If cycles cause “additional pollution” so do junctions, traffic lights and a myriad of other factors.
Cars pollute, cycles don’t. Polluting cycles is an oxymoron.
I don’t expect to convince A D, their opinion is obviously based on prejudice, they don’t like cyclists.
Jonathan Swift dealt succinctly with an argument based on prejudice: “you cannot reason a man out of something that he was never reasoned into”.
Give the parks more money to spend
WITH regard to the story about wildflowers being planted to brighten up roadsides
This is no excuse to starve the Parks department of money and keeping the workforce so low they can’t do all that should be done and needs to be done.
The gardeners should be treated with respect and not as play things by Kirklees Council.
The facts are more members of the public are using parks since the ‘new normal’ and parks should get greater funding as a consequence.
But what has happened? Kirklees Council would rather give money to so-called art wrapping trees in wool, while at the same time telling the gardeners there’s no money.’
What is needed is to put someone in charge of the parks who cares about horticulture and puts the gardeners first, not at rhe bottom of the list.