Bryan's letter to the SMH as follows:
>
>For some strange reason drivers of polluting motor vehicles feel
>they have more of a right to drive on any road than a cyclist
>because they pay registration fees for their vehicle. A quick check
>of the RTA's website to look up the 2007 Financial Statement reveals
>the followings FACTS that these people should bear in mind the next
>time they get the urge to yell abuse at a cyclist using their road:
>
>Page 3 of 33 of the Financial Statements, Total Expenses Excluding
>Losses - (Consolidated), shows: $2,262,575,000.00
>Revenue from Sale of Goods and Services shows=$296,292,000.00
>
>A difference of $1,966,283,000.00
>
>Seems to me that it is the drivers of motor vehicles who are being
>subsidised by all the taxpayers of NSW. If these selfish,
>narrow-minded, single-occupancy vehicle drivers believe they have a
>god given right to the road, then perhaps they'd care to pay their
>fair share and relieve the tax burden on the people who choose not
>to drive. I can imagine how they'd scream and wail at the thought
>of the registration fees going up a whopping one thousand per cent,
>judging by their recent bleatings.
>
>I have a car, it's registered, insured and in good working order. I
>also have the option of catching a bus to work or cycling. Many
>days I choose to cycle. Why? For the simple reason that I get
>exercise to and from work, I don't have to wait fifteen minutes to
>get on an overcrowded, stinking bus with people farting, belching,
>scratching and yelling into their mobiles over the top of their
>neighbour's blaring mp3 player.
>
>Cycling to work reduces greenhouse gases and health expenses as I am
>fitter and less stressed.
>
>The people who say cyclists increase their travel time should stop
>and think how much more their travel time would increase if the
>cyclist you just squeezed past or ran off the road in your single
>occupancy, six-cylinder gas guzzler was in another six-cylinder gas
>guzzler and was in front of you! You can't squeeze past them as
>you've run all the cyclists off the road and into gas guzzlers, and
>now the roads are practically grid-locked. Who are the Luddites
>going to blame now for all the traffic. The last traffic jam I saw
>was caused by too many motor vehicles. Cyclists don't cause traffic
>jams as yes, quite rightly, they go onto a footpath to get around
>it. So would you if you weren't so lazy, got out of your tin can,
>got some exercise and lived a more active and happy life rather than
>fuming at the wheel.
>
>I also see more cars going through red lights, which has more
>serious consequences than if a cyclist goes through a red light.
>
>Yours sincerely,
>Bryan Freeman
>Maroubra
The site logs dates, times and locations of driver
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These are plotted on a Google map, allowing visitors
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Site co-founder Simon Dakin said the idea was to use
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Mr Dakin said the site had procedures aimed at weeding
out malicious reports.
Just drove my car to work every day,
I didn’t mean to hurt nobody
Like 100 million other people just like me,
I couldn’t tell there was any other way,
I just couldn’t realize but now I think I’ll throw it away
There’s 7 billion other people just like me
I was thinking about blowin’ up all the automobiles
It seemed like such a good idea
You said hey man wouldn’t that be hypocritical
No way man cuz mines’ the first to go
Do it,
Now,
Stick a rag in,
Light the fucker up
I was thinking about melting down all the cars in the whole world
Making brand new mountain bikes for all the boys and girls
You said hey man wouldn’t that be helter skelter
No way man all we need is a giant smelter
Send it to Peoples Park,
Berkeley CA, 94704
Ride a fucking bike
Ride a fucking bike
Ride a fucking bike
I just lit my car on fire today I didn’t mean to hurt nobody
Just like 100 million other people just like me,
I could tell there wasn’t any other way
I finally realized and now it’s going up in flames
Cuz there’s 7 billion other people just like me
Having fun, since I was six, We’re only bike terrorists
Five thirty,
second Friday,
Berkeley Bart
