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al newspaper journalist i expect that you would research the subject and find out what actually motivates the campaign for safe cycling facilities for being a modern european country with proper cycle paths rather than adopting a knee jerk british exceptionalist approach my suspicion is that you did not talk to anyone from the bike lobby before tweeting i hope the anger you expressed and which you received in return could lead to a more sensible discussion of why and how cycling should be encouraged don t let this be the end of your thinking about what is represented by the new cycle paths liberation for women young people older people and indeed non macho males to be able to cycle in relative safety but the beginning the nazi pupil 01 saturday jul 2017 posted by paulgannonbike in uncategorized 1 comment dick woudenberg was the son of a leading member of the wartime dutch national socialist party nsb he was educated for several years at dutch nsb and then german nazi schools where he imbued lessons that emphasised the superiority of the germanic peoples over others especially jews and slavs in the last weeks of the war when dick was just sixteen years old he and his class mates were assigned to help defend germany from allied and russian troops fortunately for him his group s commanding officer kept him and his comrades away from trouble and they ended up being captured uninjured and by british troops rather than the feared russian soldiers after a while dick was sent to a re education centre and there he began to learn from jewish teachers about what had happened to jewish people during the war and dick slowly began to realise that he had been taught lies and hatred dick s story is told in a compelling new book sadly only available in dutch written by journalist mischa cohen called the nazi leerling de schuldige jeugd van dick woudenberg the nazi pupil the guilty youth of dick woudenberg was published in april this year and was already into its third print run by may dick s older brother jan whom dick always looked up to was not so lucky he had also been a keen fascist and had willingly joined the waffen ss and was sent to the eastern front where he died aged twenty five what worried dick gradually as a minor note of doubt even before his capture but increasingly with time was whether jan would have been involved in the murder of jews and others behind the front he knew that it was the waffen ss that carried out mass executions in the rear of the fighting troops and thus it was likely that jan would indeed have taken part in such activities in his re evaluation of his own thoughts and beliefs after the war dick began to appreciate that the most inhuman behaviour could be the work of quite ordinary people asking himself if he had been older or the war had dragged on for longer would he have taken part in violence he accepted that he would have obeyed orders as cohen writes the group pressure would have been too great to refuse in other words dick realised that it was just an accident of his age that while his brother probably became an agent of racial violence he did not dick in fact came from a politically sharply divided family that lived amongst the poverty of the jewish quarter of amsterdam while dick s father was a leading nsb er the oldest of dick s uncles was a leading social democrat who survived the war to become a key member of the dutch labour party two of dick s uncles married jews who did not survive the war and plenty of the two generations had jewish friends from the local area where they grew up mothers and fathers sons and daughters aunts and uncles nieces and nephews were on one side of the family political divide or the other at a one family funeral they all gathered to send off a deceased relative but did not communicate across the schism dick the young teenager proffered his hand to a social democrat uncle but he refused to shake hands with the boy so deep was did the political differences cut into the family a few tens of thousands of dutch people fought for and or collaborated with the german occupiers of their country and after the war those who had been on the wrong side were socially and economically shunned dick actually had to adopt a different surname to get his first job so toxic was the atmosphere towards those who had become traitors to their country this is a searing story but one of great relevance to today as we ask how do today s terrorists get radicalised and how the radical cultures of violence and hatred of others can be countered dick s transformation was not abrupt but some troubling little doubts that had existed even during his period of going along with what he was taught slowly festered and were encouraged when he encountered other people and other ideas post 1945 this tells us it is important that we engage in debate with far right wing ideas today every time you put a question on twitter say to a fascist supporter that he or she cannot answer you sow a seed of doubt though one that may well not blossom for some time dick s moving story is about how he sloughed off the shell that his nazi education had encased him in it is indeed a pity that it is not available in english to win a wider audience for its timely insights viral van driver video offers an insight into the failure of uk transport policy 07 sunday may 2017 posted by paulgannonbike in uncategorized 2 comments the video of a frustrated van driver deliberately driving his van into a cyclist has achieved cult status it has attracted outraged comments on twitter both from cyclists for whom such dangerous punishment behaviour from motorists is all too common and from motorists fuming about the cyclist being in the middle of the road for too long insane driver pic twitter com 5nnzvhac1h cycling today cyclingtodayen may 5 2017 meanwhile twitter is also alive with angry complaints from the motoring fraternity and much less often from the motoring sorority about money spent on cycleways and other cycle infrastructure which is blamed for allegedly worsening congestion and pollution british transport policy is in a self created vortex of conflicting objectives the blogger and traffic engineer ranty highwayman put his finger on the essential point in a tweet if roads like this had proper world class cycle tracks which people wanted to use this wouldn t have happened that s the bigger picture https t co tpmsdhwu5v the ranty highwayman rantyhighwayman may 7 2017 in london the black cab trade which has been the originating force of most of the myths and lies about the new london cycleways has argued vehemently against the cycleways being physically segregated their initial claims that the cycleways would only be used for an hour or two per day in peak periods and then only in summer months were rapidly proven to be false with a steady and increasing use all year round and for much of the day but they persist in demanding that the physical protection for cyclists be removed and replaced with painted lanes which would only be in operation for 12 percent of the week and which experience tells us would be made useless during those minimal hours of operation by taxis stopping in it to pick up and let down passengers obviously they wouldn t be prepared to stop in the middle of the road to let their passengers out in twitter discussions i have repeatedly asked cabbies propounding this approach whether they would prefer to have all the cyclists currently using the cycleways cycling in front of them on the carriageway rather than in their own space so both bikes and motors can travel at their own preferred speed it may come as no surprise to hear that i have not received a single answer to that question british transport policy is also expert at declining to address choices prompted by the reality of the problems that result from over dependence on the motor vehicle as the murderous van driver video illustrates drivers really don t like cyclists in front of them on the road and of course those of us who venture to cycle in the united kingdom already know this the video just captures everyday life on britain s roads and the asymmetric war conducted by some but not all motorists how many of us haven t suffered a motor driver using his her ton plus of metal to grab space by force majeure it may not be in exactly the same manner but we ve all many times had to brake like fury or throw ourselves off our path to avoid the metal garbed space grabber cyclists except for a sad minority of self proclaimed keen cyclists who display remarkable subservience to motor domination don t want to share the roads with faster cars some cyclists have been trained to value and argue for the take the lane philosophy but most of us use it only in extremis fearful of meeting someone like the viral van driver motorists don t want cyclists in front of them some because they just want to speed others because they are fearful of rousing the ire of speedsters behind them but there should be a community of interests but as the london cabbie trade shows lots of motorists get upset at seeing money spent on cycle infrastructure local authorities and highway agencies have long ignored cycling and often do their best to avoid spending on cycle infrastructure and where they do dig into the public coffers often spend the money on implementations that are ineffective unsafe and frequently of laughable quality that london s cycleways have aroused such anger is a sure sign that they are better quality than the normal british botch british transport policy has got itself into a gridlock unwilling to fund quality infrastructure it s also unwilling and probably quite incapable of humanising mixed infrastructure the system lacks the will to enforce road law effectively the viral van driver video tells us much more than that there is a dangerous sense of entitlement abroad in drivers it also points to the policy impasse that successive governments and road designers have herded us into sadiq khan the mayor of london is frozen with fear at the prospect of continuing on with his predecessor s highly successful cycleways programme fearful of protests from cabbies bus company lobbyists and too many old labour small c conservatives within his party power base theresa may who endlessly proclaims herself a strong leader is also paralysed with fear this is amply illustrated by the government s wet blanket of a policy for improving air quality announced under intense legal pressure from the courts this week the prime minister is said to have been responsible for vetoing any measure in the proposals which might upset the motorist lobby in the right wing press which have taken up cause of the right to pollute our cities transport policy in the uk has backed itself into a stand off the van driver video is a terrifying symptom of the outcome of government policy not strong not stable but weak unstable and unsustainable cycling the european link 18 saturday mar 2017 posted by paulgannonbike in uncategorized leave a comment one of the ironies of brexit is a conspicuous and controversial european inspired legacy for which boris johnson must take much responsibility from his days as mayor of london johnson was a leading figure in the campaign to leave the eu and since the brexit referendum he has been british foreign secretary deploying his trademark side swipe rhetoric in pursuit of a full british break with the eu it is on the streets of london right in front of the houses of parliament indeed that johnson s mayoral legacy is at its most prominent thanks to johnson there are now a couple of classic european style cycle paths in central london the new dutch style cycleway along the embankment in london photo tfl they have proved immensely successful in boosting the numbers of people cycling in central london cyclists now make up 70 of traffic on the nearby cycleway on blackfriar s bridge just under 4 700 cyclists used the bridge in the morning peak period the count for the embankment topped 3 600 cyclists in the same peak period however johnson s cycleways have aroused the ire of the tory establishment the eurosceptic and climate change denying former chancellor of the exchequer nigel lawson a migrant living in france visited the house of lords and deploying his trademark lack of connection with reality told his fellow peers that johnson s cycleways were doing more damage to london than almost anything since the blitz as the second world war bombing of london is known and johnson has revealed how he was regularly berated by tory mps and lords who resented his providing cycling infrastructure protected cycleways have long been common in several european countries but london has equally long been largely antipathetic towards cycling with only grudging provision of ineffective painted cycle lanes traditional british cycle infrastructure poor design ineffective and limited to paint the result of traditional policy is that the uk has a small number of people cycling and a cycling profile that is dominated by young adult males this contrasts with countries such as denmark and the netherlands where there are not only many more cyclists but also a balance of the genders as well as more younger and more older cyclists due to the safe attractive cycle facilities statistics demonstrate conclusively that british style of mixing it with motors leads to young adult males dominating the cycling profile unlike the netherlands where there are many more young and older cyclists and also a balance of males and females cycling is also significantly safer with segregated cycleways in recent years awareness of the what s available for people to choose to cycle in some of our european neighbours has led to a grass roots inspired demand for change in uk policy this raises the important question of how ideas are disseminated across national boundaries and the role of informal technology transfer as result of tourism and also of people working in other countries within europe the spread of ideas about a part technical part sociological system such as providing for cycling as a serious transport mode is often obstructed by national stereotyping dutch people cycle because it s their culture we can t replicate that here is a persistent refrain cycleways look quite natural on the streets of copenhagen or utrecht but few find it easy to conceive of how such cycleways could possibly fit into the traditional road design of the uk but things are changing planned cycleways for the upgrade of the taviplace road layout currently on hold while a public inquiry is held it s not just a matter of mass movement of tourism with people seeing plenty of cyclists in amsterdam or copenhagen the ability for people to work in other eu countries with ease means that tens of thousands of british people have lived and worked in denmark flanders or the netherlands over the past few decades many have come back with an understanding that 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