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Road safety campaigner Adam Bronkhorst is something of a regular on the live blog. For example, just last week we featured his dismay at the barrage of anti-cycling Facebook comments which followed a post about a child being struck by a motorcyclist while riding their bike to school.
However, it appears that a fair chunk of the internet isn’t quite as familiar with Adam’s stance on cycling and road safety – or, indeed, the concept of irony – judging by the reaction to his latest submission to our ever-expanding ‘Why don’t cyclists use cycle lanes?’ collection:
Bloody kids cycling on the pavement!!!
Why on earth do they do this? pic.twitter.com/HJkWLQtHxA
— Adam Bronkhorst (@AdamBronkhorst) October 16, 2022
The replies were, let’s just say, interesting…
👀👏There’s one reason with a big yellow arrow for you@allpartycycling @Chris_Boardman pic.twitter.com/CScVmbecgL
— Guanajuato (@Guanajuatouk) October 16, 2022
Serious question, to highlight the flaws in painted advisory cycle lanes and show why we need proper segregated protected cycle lanes.
— Adam Bronkhorst (@AdamBronkhorst) October 17, 2022
Tweeting about making he roads safer to encourage more people to cycle.
Helps with air quality. Health crisis. Reduce traffic. Helps with Cost of living crisis, reduce road deaths, helps with mental health etc.
I think that’s good enough to tweet about.
— Adam Bronkhorst (@AdamBronkhorst) October 17, 2022
100%. It’s why i’ve been campaigning for several years to get cycle lanes in my town. Specifically on this road. I posted the pic to show exactly why kids cycle on the pavement or worse, don’t cycle at all.
— Adam Bronkhorst (@AdamBronkhorst) October 16, 2022
Agree. We need proper cycle paths. And ones people can’t park in. That was the point of the tweet.
— Adam Bronkhorst (@AdamBronkhorst) October 17, 2022
On a serious note, the fact that so many Twitter users completely missed the sarcasm in Adam’s post perhaps gives us, after last week’s grim game of anti-cycling bingo on Facebook, another fascinating and rather frightening insight into the current state of online discourse surrounding cyclists and safe active travel infrastructure:
Can’t believe how many people completely missed the intention of your tweet Adam 🙄
— Tony – music, well-being, politics & life. (@toneolddude) October 17, 2022
Funny isn’t it.
— Adam Bronkhorst (@AdamBronkhorst) October 17, 2022
Much better. Although still not the properly segregated cycle lane we’ve been campaigning for years to get on this road so our kids can cycle safely and protected from traffic to school.
— Adam Bronkhorst (@AdamBronkhorst) October 16, 2022
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