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Sat 04 Apr 2009Encouraging more cyclists
Madam, – David Smith (April 24th) believes that the bicycle is essentially a toy. How very typical of the Irish motorist mentality that a clean, carbon-neutral, fast and healthy mode of transport that causes no damage to roads and contributes little to traffic congestion should be shunted off the road for a dangerous, uneconomic, polluting, oversized lump of metal powered by an antiquated late Victorian technology.
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