Anti Social Cycling to be targetting in Cambridge

[kevin_cambs_uk]

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/New...ning-traffic-lights-in-Cambridge-14122012.htm

About time too

 

[GrasB]

The thing is though, the pattern I see for these problems is thus - the students leave & the amount of problems with cyclists reduce dramatically....

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

"The aim of the operation is to reduce road deaths and casualties amongst cyclists"

So have a blitz on motorists with faulty lights, on mobiles and going through red lights. But it's easier to blame the cyclists isn't it?

 

[cd365]

Motorists are already targeted so why not target anti-social cycling?

 

[ufkacbln]

[QUOTE 2203383, member: 45"]Good news. All road users should be accountable.[/quote]

That is where I have an issue..

We had a local Councillor who led a "Road Safety initiative" about cycling on pavement. Yet when asked if she could deal with endemic pavement parking didn't think it was a real problem and not worth the Police time to prosecute or issue fixed penalties as "they had to park somewhere"

 

[Drago]

That is where I have an issue..

We had a local Councillor who led a "Road Safety initiative" about cycling on pavement. Yet when asked if she could deal with endemic pavement parking didn't think it was a real problem and not worth the Police time to prosecute or issue fixed penalties as "they had to park somewhere"

A friend of mine caught a chap speeding. Unfortunately, this chap was the head of the residents association against speeding. The hypocrisy of the people that shout loudest for such campaigns is often quite breathtaking.

 

[Rural halfwit]

This is the usual sop to local grumblers. And the idea that police and police-shaped objects are going to educate cyclists on cycling safety and cycling law is ludicrous. Most of the cops and PCSOs round here are barely capable of riding a bike and know bugger all about the law...

Then User whay not get down there and 'educate' them?

 

[ufkacbln]

[QUOTE 2205492, member: 45"]I've seen drivers ticketed for pavement parking. I've seen drivers pulled up for using bus lanes. I've even seen someone ticketed for parking facing the wring way.

So I don't share your issue.[/quote]

Probably because you are not trying to navigate the same streets as I am using a mobility scooter?

 

[russ.will]

I can see how many people may think this campaign to be anti-cyclist, but as a motorist I expect to get policed. If I drove around at night and/or in the fog without lights, or up pedestrian only streets, or the wrong way up a one-way street, I'd expect to be pulled up. If I was caught in an un-roadworthy car, I'd expect it to be impounded.

Driving through Cambridge the other night, all of these behaviours were in evidence and sometimes, they were combined. I don't care if people want to risk their own necks, but in Cambridge, it's as likely to be another cyclist that is jeopardised, as a car.

I just wish they'd do it in term time.

 

[russ.will]

It doesn't matter who's doing it - It's still wrong and it IS dangerous.

And I'm not having a laugh. I drive 36000m a year and in Essex, where I work, they regularly set up check points on a dual carriageway where any car/van/motorbike/lorry that trips a check on the camera gets pulled. They literally sit there with recovery vehicles lined up and fill them with cars for construction and use offences, insurance, red diesel, etc. Brilliant.

 

[2Loose]

I do hear of special initiatives to check on cyclists (especially in my home town City of Cambridge), but I rarely hear of the same thing for motorists. I am sure it happens somewhere, but as Russ.Will comments as a motorist, he expects to get policed, as do I as a road user.
Unfortunately, the thin blue (Traffic) line is almost transparent in these parts and I just don't see it frequently enough to make a difference to the behavior of ANY road users. Watching PCSO's ignore pavement parking, lights and RLJ's (not just bikes) makes me think they are given a single thing to look for and deal with in a particular day, over and above almost everything else - can any of the stoic bastions of the law on here confirm or deny?

 

[ufkacbln]

The simple thing is to deal with all the issues at the same time.

It isn't rocket science..... if a cyclist and a motorist turn up with defective lights- book both

 

[Crankarm]

Too true. Cyclists tend to put themselves at risk - drivers behaving illegally tend to put others at risk.

This is the usual sop to local grumblers. And the idea that police and police-shaped objects are going to educate cyclists on cycling safety and cycling law is ludicrous. Most of the cops and PCSOs round here are barely capable of riding a bike and know bugger all about the law...

Note to self - buy a lottery ticket this week as I OMG agreed with User.

 

[Crankarm]

It doesn't matter who's doing it - It's still wrong and it IS dangerous.

And I'm not having a laugh. I drive 36000m a year and in Essex, where I work, they regularly set up check points on a dual carriageway where any car/van/motorbike/lorry that trips a check on the camera gets pulled. They literally sit there with recovery vehicles lined up and fill them with cars for construction and use offences, insurance, red diesel, etc. Brilliant.

Well, Essex is bandit country ...................

 

[Crankarm]

Go for a bike ride on your pride and joy, but come back with an ASBO as some dumb copper thinks you ride an Anti Social Bike Object .