Crackdown in Oxford

[Profpointy]

Did anyone else spot the obvious error that TVP have made here? It's a bit obscure, but quite fundamental. @CopperCyclist might get it.

TVP?

 

[Drago]

Thames Valley Dibble.

 

[Profpointy]

Thames Valley Dibble.

are they parked on the pavement ?
do I win?

 

[Drago]

No, but that's a fair point.

 

[Banjo]

6PM could be before lighting up time ?

 

[Drago]

No, but that's good point to consider.

 

[glenn forger]

They have special warnings on their website reminding cyclists to stay off pavements. Nothing about drivers. Then they fanny about stopping cyclists, stupid, pointless policing that wastes everyone's time.

 

[Milkfloat]

Well in other articles mentioning this clamp down they were banging on about high vis - feel free to ping lack of lights, but don't infer that high vis is the law.

I cannot actually view the video - but were they actually pinging people on roads where lights are not a legal requirement?

 

[Drago]

No. Three good guesses, so I'll put you out of your misery.

One of the officers is a PCSO. He doesn't actually have the power to stop people for a moving traffic offence (other than cycling on the pavement).

 

[glenn forger]

The plod were asked on twitter why they were ignoring speeding and dangerous driving. The cops said "we did a twitter campaign against them!" Unlit cyclists featured in two fatalities last year, speeding and dangerous driving in more than a thousand.

 

[Globalti]

Yawn.

I wish they would come and do this in Preston; driving in to the town on any evening you run the gauntlet of muppets on bicycles dressed in black hoodies swanning around on the A59 like it's their own private test track. In the dark you really need your wits about you to avoid hitting one. Mind you they aren't commuters riding in a predictable straight line and easy to flag down, they're just feral kids on BMXs and mountain bikes so it would be hard to stop them.

 

[Banjo]

The plod were asked on twitter why they were ignoring speeding and dangerous driving. The cops said "we did a twitter campaign against them!" Unlit cyclists featured in two fatalities last year, speeding and dangerous driving in more than a thousand.

Don't you read the other replies Glen? Its already been explained to you that these police aren't traffic police so wouldn't be involved in chasing speeding cars anyway.

Its common sense to have lights when riding in the dark whatever spin you put on it.

 

[mjr]

Don't you read the other replies Glen? Its already been explained to you that these police aren't traffic police so wouldn't be involved in chasing speeding cars anyway.

Its common sense to have lights when riding in the dark whatever spin you put on it.

Only if you need them to see where you're going. CTC campaigned against rear lights on good reasoning but unsuccessfully.

How many fewer cyclist-harrassing officer shifts would pay for an extra traffic policing officer shift?

 

[glenn forger]

Just two per cent of speeding drivers are convicted. Trafpol numbers have been halved. There are hardly any trafpol now, so diverting officers away from making the roads safer makes no sense.

 

[Drago]

I harass lawbreakers wherever I find them. I no more listen to whinging cyclist lawbreakers than I do whinging shoplifters, whinging speeding motorists, or whinging burglars.