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"Holding AND drinking a coffee"

"Personally I'd stop at point 1. "

"+1. Education backed up with consequences is the way forward. That kid will have to live with it for the rest of ?his life. I think a massive fine would help, to go to a cycling-specific fund."

"Actually I can understand this. People expect to be annoyed, frustrated and potentially threatened by traffic when they drive so they're prepared for it, and they also have a degree of insulation from traffic inside their cars. People expect to…"

"If Redfern got lifts then the bloody taxpayers would demand ped and bike friendly access to the station from the fenced RMS superhighways that surround it. Then they'd want safe easy interchange for people going from bus to train. Then…"

"No! it may be compulsory in some parks in some US states to wear hi-vis during hunting season though. Woo hoo what a segue from one issue to another..."

"Unbelievably misguided recommendation that mostly got the comments it deserved on Stuff. Photographers often wear hi-vis in public, not to be safe but to be rendered invisible enough to do the job without being hassled. "

"I wonder if it was the same dickhead who said that to me in the same place?!? I had smiled at him because we were the only ones using that stretch of cycleway at the time and that was his response. I'm not qualified to ID his bike brand. "