Sydney’ Lord Mayor Clover Moore was at it again this week, lowering all roads in the City of Sydney council area to 40km/hour taking in many inner-city suburbs. In her words, improving safety for people walking and riding. The move already criticised by the NRMA for not being evidence based. We all know Clover hates cars apart from her chauffeured council car and in a recent council minute she enthused that share bikes are a useful and sustainable means of transport for many people claiming 840,000 trips were made by them in the city in the first half of the year, equating to 160,000 trips a month. These figures are simply fanciful at best – as a city regular many share bikes spend most of their time lying on the footpath to the angst of pedestrians, making our beautiful city look downright untidy in the process. I’m David Berthon

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