Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May

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What kind of car you like is one thing but does he understand that when he sits at a café next to a busy, congested road and blame the cyclists for the congestion that he's actually just factually wrong? Because I don't think he knows that. Jeremy Clarkson is fiercely anti-bicycle and until he says, in front of an audience, that he's wrong about this and will stop spewing vitriol at bicyclists, I frankly don't care about him.

Also his show Toy stories was really cool.

He would pick a classic toy and take it to an extreme. Like building a people-sized house out of Lego, entering modeling clay flowers into a gardening contest or making a motorcycle out of Meccano.

He would bring a bunch of people together to make it happen, it was wholesome in a not-lame way. Plus the usual James May antics.

His YouTube is a bit mid, I find. Him shilling his gin, lurpak and even doting on the cybertruck.

I mean all power to him, but I find the content very lackluster compared to the tv he made.

Loved them. Only thing he did that I did not like that much was his cyberpunk review.

Even Clarkson would occasionally show up to work on a bicycle. It really is as simple as build the lanes and people will use them, regardless of status and opinions. If cycling is faster, easier, safer or more enjoyable, people will do it.

I did not come away from this article with a very positive opinion on Clarkson. He strikes me as the type of guy who is incapable of recognising a problem that he himself is not personally facing. Climate change wasn't real until he tried his hand at farming. Driving electric vehicles won't solve the climate problem, science will (did science not develop the battery technology needed to move away from gasoline cars?). Farmers are struggling and will be forced to sell to millionaires and capitalists (is he himself not the capitalist that bought a hobby farm from a struggling farmer?).

I don't think he's seeing his own hypocrisy here. Farmers have been facing these problems for years and no one paid attention. He calls up his buddy in Westminster, immediately gets a full cabinet meeting, and as if by magic the government starts moving in his favour (taking away power from local government, I might add).

This isn't a black and white issue and there is merit to Clarkson's point that local government can get captured and corrupted by personal conflicts and interests. But I don't agree with the image he appears to project as a defender of the common man and poor farmer. He's a millionaire who has never given a single shit about farmers until he personally owned a farm.

Better late than never?

Cities are not really designed for people more than two standard deviations from the mean in height