Number plates for bikes?

[cyberknight]

And whilst we're at it, can all peds wear number plates so we can identify them on CCTV. Especially ones in hoodies who are just about to rob a bank, because they're realy hard to indentify sometimes.

calling @Mike Smith ?

 

[ROO-D2]

It'll be Speed cameras on cycle paths next i suppose

This could be quite fun, would make speeding a sport.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

the argus also reports

"Faced with repeated questions about cyclists breaking the road rules, Mrs Bourne said she wanted to “stick up” for them a little bit, suggesting an unruly few gave the rest a bad name. But she added that bikes should have some form of identification so cyclists could be found and prosecuted if they break the law (see page three of The Argus today). Difficulties Mr Kemp said police enforced cycling rules “as best we can” but faced difficulties in catching people. He encouraged anyone who had specific information about cyclists’ breaking rules to report them to police.
He added £30 fines had been issued and said last week community support officers spent two days stopping cyclists riding on Hove promenade. “It is quite resource intensive and we are doing it and it does matter to us,” he said, adding rule-breaking created “a risk of someone getting hurt”.


Mr York said his “personal bugbear” was cyclists without lights, adding he had “frightened a few in my time just driving alongside them and saying to them, ‘You are wearing all black on a black road and nobody can see you. You are just invisible’.


He put enforcement third in his list of how to improve road safety, behind engineering the roads around the speed limit and education."

Yet again the weather-vain of local policing priorities is driven by so-called community concerns, but when the cycling community air their concerns they are told they are not a community. Something must be done about the unruly mob, the scourge of cyclists, because, after all, they represent the real risk don't they?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

More here

 

[IncoherentJeff]

"But she added that bikes should have some form of identification so cyclists could be found and prosecuted if they break the law... ...“It is quite resource intensive and we are doing it and it does matter to us,”

When will they learn number plates & ANPRs are not a decent replacement for coppers on the beat!
Such a system would be easy to get around by criminals in the same way cars are cloned.

 

[Brandane]

She lost any little credibility she might have had when she said.......

'Other people register, they pay to use the roads and cyclists don't,

 

[Brandane]

And whilst we're at it, can all peds wear number plates so we can identify them on CCTV. Especially ones in hoodies who are just about to rob a bank, because they're realy hard to indentify sometimes.

Ahhhh, no, that won't happen. Staff will demand that they remove their hoodies BEFORE they rob the place. Well that's what happens when you go into a petrol station with a motorbike crash helmet on - the staff in some places won't take your cash (AFTER they have already let you take petrol, so it's not to do with proving your age) until you remove your helmet, because "it's for our safety, you could be in to rob us". WTF? So a real robber will remove their helmet then?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Mr York said his “personal bugbear” was cyclists without lights, adding he had “frightened a few in my time just driving alongside them and saying to them, ‘You are wearing all black on a black road and nobody can see you. You are just invisible’.

Now think very carefully about this Mr York. You're shouting at invisible black things in a black place and you can see the fear on their faces as you shout at them out of your car window. I suggest, Mr York, if confronted by a man shouting at invisible people out of the car window alongside a cyclist, a look of fear on the cyclist's face would be a perfectly rational response.

 

[IncoherentJeff]

Well that's what happens when you go into a petrol station with a motorbike crash helmet on - the staff in some places won't take your cash (AFTER they have already let you take petrol, so it's not to do with proving your age) until you remove your helmet, because "it's for our safety, you could be in to rob us". WTF? So a real robber will remove their helmet then?

Surprised that they don't turn the pump off trying to fill up with a helmet on, I was told it was to ensure your face was on CCTV incase you sped off without paying.
I take my helmet off but have still had the pump turned off & an annoying tannoy announcement for still being sat on the bike while refuelling!
The engine was turned off, they don't make everyone get out of cars/vans during refuelling and I can get more petrol in when I'm sat holding it upright rather than it being at an angle on the side stand. Needless to say I took my business elsewhere. Think it's BP garages but I'd have to double check.

 

[ufkacbln]

Why not do a trial?

Take a large cohort and apply number plates.

Then look at how effective they are at reducing speeding, dangerous behaviour, inconsiderate use of pavements, and all the other offences.

If it is successful then proceed

However if one could prove that all these activities still happened within that cohort despite number plates then it would suggest that the idea is pointless

A cohort of 30 million drivers should be large enough

 

[Drago]

How can a cyclist ever face the same penalty as a motorist when a cyclist doesn't have a licence to endorse?

I'm pleased that I don't pay for the roads I use. As that's the case I must be due a massive council tax and income tax refund.

 

[KneesUp]

The rear numberplate shown on the front of the bike in the Daily Heil is from a Citroen Berlingo. Already people are abusing the system and using false plates. It'll never work.