Motor Cycle News has been running stories on harrassment of riders by Welsh police and asked riders to turn up en masse today. Vast numbers did arrive including Ethel. We went A5 all the way up and blasted home all motorway - 280 miles, set off at 0900 and home by 1600. We saw a police car and bike at one roundabout, another car in a junction and a white van camera above us on a bridge. That was it - we did not see anyone pulled over. The problem facing the police there is massive traffic volume on inadequate roads. Everything imaginable is winding along them nose to tail. Cars, bikes,vans,lorries, caravans, Euro motorhomes towing cars, bicycles, horses,pedestrians - the lot. To make things even worse long sections of road are wide enough for 3 cars with grisly results as witnessed today. Shocked motorists were sitting in the kerb near an ambulance showing little sign of activity. 200 metres along the road a bike was lying on its side.200 metres the other way a car with a big pear shaped dent in the drivers door and front wing was off the side of the road.
The only way to make the place safer is to reduce all types of traffic. A scheme such as those used in cities like Athens whereby only certain licence plate numbers can drive on certain days across all vehicles would do it.
Anyway I'm not going back in a hurry - I've seen sheep and hills before, they're no big deal.
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