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New Plymouth councillor complains cycle lane separation barriers will ruin his sports car (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does this headline seem fair to you? He's a former ambulance driver, and his complaint is the new cycle lanes will prevent vehicles from moving out of the way of an ambulance. The headline presents this as him being concerned about damaging his car should he accidentally drive over one. It seems like a very clickbaity way to present the article if you ask me.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, they do put the reporter's bias against him into the title. Though, at the least, he is concerned about damage to his car from the barriers.

Chong wondered who would pay for repairs to low-riding vehicles like his damaged in encounters with the separation barriers.