A shift from car to motorcycle of just 10% resulted in a dramatic
reduction of traffic queues and a quicker return to ‘normal’ driving
conditions. In terms of actual figures what this means is that if
just 1 in 10 drivers switched to two wheels an overall reduction in
travel time of 63% would be achieved. Interestingly the team found
that if 25% switched then congestion would be eliminated altogether.
The results prove that not only do bikes save time for those riding them
they save time for everyone else too! As a result even if you don’t
decide to jump from your car on to two wheels, you should be thanking
those who do because each one is actually saving you time. Fact.
http://www.geton.co.uk/motorcycles-and-scooters-a-cure-to-uk-congestion/
As I’ve said before, I want a sign on the back of my jacket that says…
“Say thanks, I could be driving my car and holding you up!”
And we’d all be whinging about the L-plated newbies on the roads who don’t know how to ride 
Unless they jumped on a 50cc ped 
Where’s Twain :ermm:
Another set of statistics from ‘Get On’.
Problem is that in order to achieve this, they actually have to encourage new rider to ‘Get On’… something my sister’s partner found very difficult when he tried to get his 1 hr trial lesson through them. They were a waste of space, contacting him 6 months after he was meant to have had his ‘lesson’ looking for feedback. He had to tell them they’d put him onto a training school that had gone out of business. When he got in touch with them, they were able to put him on to another training school who despite repeated phone calls on his part, never returned his calls. He phoned a third training school listed on Get On’s website who very sniffily told him that they had nothing to do with Get On, and that he’d have to book his CBT instead at some ridiculously inflated cost.
His response was that if this is the bother he’s having trying to get the much advertised 1 hr trial lesson, then the industry was trying very hard to put people him like off biking instead of what they were meant to do. Fortunately he was going to do his CBT and DAS regardless of Get On’s balls-ups. CBT in the bag, and he’s now trying to get his DAS done before he starts a new job off-shore in a few weeks.
Get On? Get Lost more like 
If that many get on bikes it’ll be like this:
Lol so many it actually looks like an escalator full of helmet clad pedestrians.
