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Apartheid at its best

Posted by Leon Novello <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Leon+Novello' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 31, 2020, 6:01 am

Bicycles in one lane, pedestrians in a separate lane, no more punch-ups. The grass is brown because it was mid-winter.

uploading pictures

Leon Novello

Re: Apartheid at its best

Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 31, 2020, 6:02 am, in reply to "Apartheid at its best"

I like your handbag, Leon...

Re: Apartheid at its best

Posted by Leon Novello <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Leon+Novello' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 31, 2020, 6:11 am, in reply to "Re: Apartheid at its best"

I do try to be fashionable. Actually, I found it on a park bench and took it to the local police station later.

Leon Novello

Re: Apartheid at its best

Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 31, 2020, 9:20 am, in reply to "Apartheid at its best"

"The grass is brown because it was mid-winter"

Same here - the frost killed it

Who needs a signature anyway......

Re: Apartheid at its best

Posted by ChazzyB <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=ChazzyB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 31, 2020, 10:12 am, in reply to "Re: Apartheid at its best"

I've noticed a few places recently with Astroturf at the front of the house.

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Re: Apartheid at its best

Posted by Hampy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Hampy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 31, 2020, 10:23 am, in reply to "Re: Apartheid at its best"

A classic line from Delboy. "How do you think astroturf compares with grass?" "I don't know; I've never smoked astroturf."

Re: Apartheid at its best

Posted by Sparrow <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Sparrow' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 31, 2020, 10:59 am, in reply to "Re: Apartheid at its best"

So much room in Oz.
They would build flats along that central strip here.

Re: Apartheid at its best

Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 31, 2020, 2:32 pm, in reply to "Re: Apartheid at its best"

I don't think it's a matter of "room" as much as it is "what do you want the country to be like?".

Back a few years ago we were riding in a group through Lincolnshire farm country, and rode into a little village on our bikes. There was NO place to park, so cars were parked in the traffic lanes and you just had to go around them in the opposite lane, which was fine with me, but a bit dodgy if you weren't paying close attention.

I asked one of the guys I was riding with "Wonder why the town doesn't put a few parking spaces along the road here? Wouldn't need many and it you wouldn't have to play 'chicken' with oncoming traffic."

He said "It's not like the USA; we haven't got the kind of room for just making parking spaces that you've got."

I looked around from my bike seat on the edge of the village. It was all open sheep pasture almost as far as the eye could see. I was sitting in the middle of probably 600 acres with a village on one side, and the rest nothing but open land to the hilltop horizons with a few stone fences and sheep-cotes. You could use a fraction of an acre of it for a dozen parking spaces and never even notice.

"What about THIS space?" I said innocently. He was astonished, as if I'd asked to take his wife to a hotel for the night.

"That's FARMLAND!" quoth he. "Always been farmland, always will be. What are you thinking?"

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for planning, conserving farmland, and avoiding the spreading rot that uglies-up so much of the exurban USA. I like the Domesday Book and think you ought to stick to it.

But it's not like the land isn't there; it's the choices you make of what to do with it ...

Lannis

Re: Apartheid at its best

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 31, 2020, 2:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Apartheid at its best"

Lannis in America car is god in the UK a car is the devil.The times I have driven in America and was always surprised how easy it was to park. In this country they make it as hard as possible and we have an army of traffic wardens that have to reach their targets. Many a time I have seen a shop that I would like to stop and have a look in, but usually no where to stop and park. They wonder why our high street shops are suffering. Rant over.

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: Apartheid at its best

Very good point about the death of the high street Jerry. When I was a kid we would drive into the centre of Southampton on Saturday mornings and park comfortably in the Above Bar section of the high street. Not every one had a car in those days.
Our traffic problems really took off 30 odd years ago when the baby boomers kids started taking to the roads.

Re: Apartheid at its best

Posted by martin in the USA <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=martin+in+the+USA' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 31, 2020, 1:48 pm, in reply to "Re: Apartheid at its best"

I first heard that line in the early '70's by the American baseball pitcher Tug McGraw.

Lock him up! (your bike, that is)

Re: Apartheid at its best

Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 31, 2020, 6:38 pm, in reply to "Re: Apartheid at its best"

When in Australia amazed that no charge for parking though there was in Cairns when parking for the day to go the the barrier reef but that was peanuts.. and you Ausies will laugh I found the standard of driving was great even when I quickly signaled to go left in the outside lane as I spotted the shop I waned the drivers behind just held back..

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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