delusionofgrandeur

I was out and about on two occasions this evening, the first time on foot, the second on my push bike.

It was frankly eerie. At the end of the evening rush hour, walking along a side road about 200 meters from a main artery on the other side of some buildings, the usual familiar background ‘hiss’ of tyres on tarmac wasn’t present. Certainly there was traffic but nowhere near as much as usual.

Later when I took to the road by bicycle, I was even more surprised as the general absense of heavy traffic. I found my self travelling along one stretch of a normally busy A road for a minute or two where I was the only vehicle moving. I also encountered a higher than normal number of other cyclists and a few walkers. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no tree hugger and indeed I own a car but it hasn’t been off the drive in days; the fuel is just too expensive.

Fuel in the UK is now £1.17/litre for petrol or £1.30/litre for diesel (The equivalent of US $8.52 / US Gallon)

There was still a small contingent of lunatics on the road it seemed though. First there was the original ‘boy racers’ in barried-up shopping trollies doing their level best to anhiallate themselves and others and the inevitable Evo VII crowd burning more fuel per inch than anyone else on the road. Clearly the credit crunch hasn’t quite caught up with these demographics yet.

One thing is for sure, the UK’s economy can’t survive if all the motorists are priced off the roads.

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