Dirk Wright wrote:
I don't know about England. What place were you at - London?
I was in Sheffield, in the Midlands.
Hmmm, Sheffield's in Yorkshire, and folk up there won't take kindly to being
told they're in the Midlands ;-) Cities and large towns usually have
reasonable public transport, though the streets are still clogged with car
drivers. I now live in Shrewsbury, in Shropshire (in the Midlands), which
has a tortuous one-way system. I avoid the town centre in my car if at all
possible. Cycling allows me to ride up pavements (sidewalks) and the wrong
way up one-way streets, with caution.
Outside the towns buses etc are infrequent at best, and the train service is
patchy.
Also Britain (which has countries other than England in it!) is a relatively
small island, but is still ~1,000 miles long. Arterial routes are motorways,
but the pace slows dramatically when you get to the smaller roads.
France & Spain, for example, are much bigger than GB. It would surely take
more like 24 hours of continuous driving to cross either North-South. I have
read bike journalists' accounts of head-down full throttle trips across
France on the autoroutes which, if they are to be believed, spend much of
their time with the speedo above 140mph.
Simon E.
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