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Afternoon champs, champettes and everyotherchamp, you should see that the site is considerably quicker now, we've moved to a new host finally. We've also installed the PHP shizzle so you can allow notifications, so you'll get notified every time someone quotes you, mentions you or reacts to one of your posts. Enjoy the new zippiness!

So Tom Brady has announced he is retiring. He has had an amazing career, and although i'm a Falcons fan and was gutted when he took us apart on the 4th quarter of the Superbowl, I have always enjoyed watching him play and admire what he has accomplished in the game, winning 7 Superbowls!!! I think he has chosen the right time to step away from the game though as he has passed his peak and with the likes of Mahomes, Burrows, Allen, and Herbert all bringing in a new generation of QBs i think he would have started to struggle to keep pace with them. He will always be one of the greatest players of all time and it won't be long before he is inducted into the Hall of Fame

Seriously, who thought it would be a good idea to force cyclists to use the middle of the road? There is also a 1.5 metre overtake rule in place now where you'll literally have to be in the other lane. Cyclists are also being encouraged to be two abreast if with others to clog up lanes further. I can only see this increasing traffic jams, causing more rear-end accidents and generally antagonising drivers more against people who don't have to pay road tax or require any licence despite having hundreds of millions ploughed into unused cycle lanes over the years. If they think this will increase the amount of people that decide to bike then they are sorely deluded beyond any comprehension. Also cars now must give way to pedestrians crossing at junctions which will cause slowdown and more accidents. In the last year where I live, they've also been experimenting with these LTN's (Low Traffic Neighborhood) schemes where they block off a selection of roads to allegedly reduce pollution and traffic in these zones but all it has done is cause road users to divert to alternative routes, clog them up spectacularly, increase travel time by an excess of 30 minutes and most importantly, they have cut off key emergency service routes in the town which is absolutely diabolical. The people making these decisions are absolute fucking fools. I often bike and I know quite a few others who do this to get to work or cycle casually and we either use the edge of the road without concern or the cycle tracks provided at great expense. I wouldn't dream of cycling in the middle or causing hold-ups to people getting to work or going about their day. It's unbelievable really

That it wasn't like that before is fucking stupid anyway. This is what I was taught in Holland, where every other road user gets right of way over anyone turning. It's quite simple really, if you're turning, you wait. Regardless of vehicle. This coupled with the Dutch reacharound (lol) just tells me that our fantastically imaginative country leaders are just looking to other countries for ideas.

Yep. Now pedestrians can blindly walk into the road and they have to then trust that both drivers in each lane will give way with their forced-priority. I will only cross when it's clear regardless and that's how it should have stayed. A car turning left who may be giving way to one turning right (and a pedestrian) could see the person on foot thinking it's clear looking right, only to then be struck by someone turning left that isn't observing the new guidelines. At best, it's going to slow everything down on the road.