Matthames
Über Member
- Location
- East Sussex
This morning I got pulled over after jumping a red right.... the road was perfectly clear I was in no danger to myself or any other road users but I blatently jumped the light and got fined £30!! I was in the wrong shouldn't of jumped the lights blah blah sh*t happens.... or dose it!
Lets face it we all jump lights - I do it when I know its safe I take the risk and jump them to save time.... just like every other cyclist - everyone knows this. Over six weeks the police are going to pick up bucket loads of cash in fines. It's unjust, it feels like to me they are just recovering money spent on the blue cycle lanes and now they are just targeting cyclists to foot the bill!
We all commute to work for our own reasons, but in doing so we are all helping the environment etc etc etc the government try to promite this by setting up the cycle lanes but then why police them in such a way that they are giving with one hand and then taking straight back with the other!
Please any one who uses this cycle route be very carefull for the next 6 weeks and stop at the lights, I don't know where that copper was hiding because I didn't see him at the lights but he saw me. They are out there to get you!!!
Firstly, we all don't jump lights and for very good reasons. Just because loads of other people do it, doesn't make it right. For instance loads of people speed and park on double yellow lines, but it doesn't make it right though. Jumping red lights gives us law abiding cyclists a bad wrap from the anti cycling lobby.
The assertion you made about not being a danger to yourself and other road users is clearly wrong given what you said. You couldn't spot a policeman at a set of lights on a road that as you say was perfectly clear. I am afraid to say that to carry on jumping red lights, one day your luck is going to run out and you are going to end up dead.
Just my thoughts on the matter.