And not allowing the roads to be closed bars part of the community 52 Sundays a year.
Communities need to be about compromise.
The thing is, I rather think that this is a false dichotomy. You're assuming that the choice is between "close the roads and have a run" and "don't have a run". I suspect that, with adequate planning, there may be a way of enabling the runners without barracading anyone else.
And that should be the goal.
But if you have the runners in the left-hand lane and motor vehicles in the right-hand lane, that still creates a barricade for any car or bus that wants to turn left.
If it's just a fun run (rather than a tightly timed competitive race) then surely it would be possible to staff key junctions and create a sort of level crossing to allow vehicles through periodically?
If it's just a fun run (rather than a tightly timed competitive race) then surely it would be possible to staff key junctions and create a sort of level crossing to allow vehicles through periodically?
If it's just a fun run (rather than a tightly timed competitive race) then surely it would be possible to staff key junctions and create a sort of level crossing to allow vehicles through periodically?
They get verbal abuse.
You mean people in cars roll down their windows and curse at them?
If it's just a fun run (rather than a tightly timed competitive race) then surely it would be possible to staff key junctions and create a sort of level crossing to allow vehicles through periodically?
They get verbal abuse.
You mean people in cars roll down their windows and curse at them?
If it's just a fun run (rather than a tightly timed competitive race) then surely it would be possible to staff key junctions and create a sort of level crossing to allow vehicles through periodically?
They get verbal abuse.
You mean people in cars roll down their windows and curse at them?
Mostly.
Oh, well, that is utterly tragic, and certainly well worth forcing the closure of churches and all their work for a morning. Not.
In my experience, the cyclists give at least as much verbal abuse as they get. (Try beeping at a cyclist who thinks it's his right to run a stop sign in front of a driver with the right-of-way.) Make it work for everybody - and I still think that the roads should be shareable, even if someone has to wait a moment to make a turn - or get rid of the damned road closures. Churches give the communities of which they are a part a great deal more than they take, and they have a right to keep their schedules, even if that annoys the hobbyists.
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But if you have the runners in the left-hand lane and motor vehicles in the right-hand lane, that still creates a barricade for any car or bus that wants to turn left.
They get verbal abuse.
Soror Magna asserted it as if it was more than a "possibility."
Is this really based on not much more than speculation?
You mean people in cars roll down their windows and curse at them?
Mostly.
In my experience, the cyclists give at least as much verbal abuse as they get. (Try beeping at a cyclist who thinks it's his right to run a stop sign in front of a driver with the right-of-way.) Make it work for everybody - and I still think that the roads should be shareable, even if someone has to wait a moment to make a turn - or get rid of the damned road closures. Churches give the communities of which they are a part a great deal more than they take, and they have a right to keep their schedules, even if that annoys the hobbyists.