June 12
2008
Dollhouse star reveals her favourite cycle route.
Olivia Williams tells The Guardian why Cambridge is a cyclist's dream.
Simon
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She's right about cycling in any case, it's really quite pleasant, excepting the time when lectures finish and there're about fifty bikes on the road at once. It's quite a contrast for me, because in Wales there are literally hills everywhere (my house sits atop an annoyingly steep one), and cycling is something of a living hell, whilst here everything is just incredibly flat.
MattK | June 12, 06:43 CET
Didn't they have some scheme/convention in Cambridge such that bikes were left unlocked for common use, where the user just left it wherever they were going for the next person to use ? Or is that my imagination ? If not, do they still do it ? Always liked that idea, prone to abuse as it may be.
And in this way, Olivia Williams acquires a Fan For Life (OK, OK, her being extremely talented helps too ;).
She's right about the Dutch too, they love their bikes there (again, very flat country) to the extent that it's actually bloody dangerous if you're used to road traffic on the left.
Saje | June 12, 06:59 CET
zeitgeist | June 12, 07:06 CET
Saje | June 12, 07:27 CET
jcs | June 12, 07:37 CET
zeitgeist | June 12, 08:05 CET
Saje | June 12, 08:29 CET
zeitgeist | June 12, 08:31 CET
@theonetruebix | June 12, 10:49 CET
zeitgeist | June 12, 11:09 CET
(I'd like to point out that I have nothing against cyclists in general, in fact I think for both personal health and environmental reasons cycling is a laudable thing, and when the weather is nice I love a nice long cycle ride in the countryside.)
Cyclists in Cambridge seem to behave in an incredibly anti-social fashion: few seem to bother putting lights on their bikes, they mount the pavement whenever they want, jump red lights and completely ignore all traffic signals, etc. There is a narrow walkway leading from near where I live to the local supermarket. Despite the fact that every five metres or so there is a sign saying "NO CYCLING" I regularly have to literally leap out of the way of cyclists when I am walking on it laden down with shopping.
It's really weird. It's just a sort of convention here, but one that doesn't exist anywhere else I've lived in the UK. All the cyclists I've mentioned this to absolutely deny it, and yet I know I am not hallucinating on a daily basis; the police seem to just turn a blind eye to it. I have lost count of the number of times I have narrowly avoided being mown down by a cyclist riding at top speed without lights in the dark on the pavement. If they notice the fact that they nearly ran me over at all they seem to behave as if I'm the one at fault.
Cyclists in Cambridge really really piss me off.
dzr | June 12, 11:10 CET
DreamDancer | June 12, 11:21 CET
dzr - To be honest, I think it's just that with so many cyclists here there are going to be some who don't follow the rules. Most cyclists are fine, I think.
MattK | June 12, 11:50 CET
Back on topic - I think the reason Cambridge cyclists tend to break all the rules is because there are so many of them. They tend to take over the streets, which leads to a vicious cycle as pedestrians start walking all over the place to get out of their way, so the cyclists do weird things to avoid ploughing into them etc etc.
DreamDancer | June 12, 13:16 CET
[ edited by MattK on 2008-06-13 00:03 ]
MattK | June 12, 13:44 CET
Wah, wah, waaaaah...!
zeitgeist | June 12, 13:49 CET
I vote for the 3rd Rock From The Sun greeting.
Brasilian Chaos Man | June 12, 14:48 CET
Zeitgeist - hadn't actually noticed the cycle thing. It's rather sad that it wasn't a deliberate choice of words - or maybe it would be worse if I had done it on purpose hmmmm.
[ edited by DreamDancer on 2008-06-12 23:13 ]
DreamDancer | June 12, 17:04 CET
"Currently getting things sorted for graduation (really scary - feels like I've been here for 3 months not 3 years)."
I know what you mean with this. The first year's gone by so fast. It doesn't help that terms are only 8 weeks, and this last term's especially has gone by in a blink of an eye, what with exams and all (which only ended yesterday for me, so yay!). I'm probably doing a 4-year course, but I'm looking to spend my third year on a student exchange to MIT. Thing is though, I like Cambridge so much, that to lose a year here and not see all my friends.. but on the other hand the opportunity to go to MIT sounds too good to miss. In any case, I get the impression the next few years will go by all too fast.
ETA: Technically on Facebook, but I haven't used it in ages. My CRSID is mkh37 though.
[ edited by MattK on 2008-06-12 23:33 ]
MattK | June 12, 17:12 CET
[ edited by DreamDancer on 2008-06-12 23:37 ]
DreamDancer | June 12, 17:14 CET
zeitgeist | June 12, 17:28 CET
'Cause we're so hard to pull over. No license plates, even (least in the US).
"Base, I need an APB on a guy on a red... bike, he's wearing a... hat... shit, he's gone."
dispatch | June 12, 17:54 CET