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This blog post on "Why do police target cyclists who jump red lights?" is worth a read.
swee said:Well, of course there is, just as there is a safe way to negotiate a junction when the lights are out or even a junction that is not light-controlled in the first place.
You can't get anyone in the anti-RLJ crowd to concede this, though, without an immediate switch to "but that's not the point, it's still illegal/a bad example/makes drivers hate us". The RLJ-is-always-wrong argument is hydra-headed and switches to a different front whenever they think they're losing the current discussion.
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Seems a bit of a silly guy to me. Criticising someone for not wearing a reflective fluorescent vest is bang out of order - presumably using his badge as credence in the area even more so. He's also got a pretty eccentric and poor knowledge/view of the law/highway code.Vikeonabike said:Nice to see, make sure that you read the authors blog on his day with City of London Police bike team.
marinyork said:Seems a bit of a silly guy to me. Criticising someone for not wearing a reflective fluorescent vest is bang out of order - presumably using his badge as credence in the area even more so. He's also got a pretty eccentric and poor knowledge/view of the law/highway code.
I don't think anyone begrudges him his bit of PR for saying the obvious - police cyclists need some kind of training in a small and targetted way. But the thing is you and other police have't really helped themselves PR wise. You should have seen a mile off that a 93 page manual would get savaged. Getting pieces written like that is the way to do it if one strips out the crap that I highlighted. The problem being that adding in little 'snippets' like the hi-viz to look 'balanced' and 'cool' undermines it all.Vikeonabike said:
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