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Cycling is superior to driving if you want to live a long life

Brian Dalton, Purley, Surrey CR8
14 March 2011
 

Paul Biggs seems to think that cyclists have a superiority complex but it isn’t a complex, cyclists are superior.

Let me elucidate.

In 1995 the last Tory Government made probably its only U-turn. Prior to that time its policy had been to deter cycling as it was deemed to be dangerous. The British Medical Association had declared in 1991 that, on balance, it was better to cycle than not. So, faced with massive opposition to road building the Government decided it was time to accept that we...

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