Talking of the Police, Avon and Somerset Constabulary have announced their 'Operation Glitter' initiative...
..riding of pushbikes without lights after dark will mean an instant £30 fine..you will also be given info pack that contains a 10% discount voucher to buy new lights. On production of the receipt at a Police Station within seven days the fine will be written off...
The lesson is clear..get caught and claim your cheap lights :think:
ATB,
Derek
'My Auntie Mabel told me I'd make a great soldier, though I don't know how 30 years working in a biscuit factory had qualified her to make that judgement.....' Eddie Nugent
I don't object 'too' strongly to speed cameras where they're sited to cut accidents but we all know that this isn't always the case is it ;-)
Re the 'Casualty Reduction Unit'.. I'm deadly serious, that is exactly what was worded on the side of the van. You see something like that and it kinda sticks with you! While I honestly couldn't put hand on heart and say there has never been an accident on the bit of road the van was parked on, I've used that same bit of road weekly for the past 5 years and I've never seen one. Hopefully, I've not been travelling too fast to notice ;-) In actual fact, it should be sited bang in the centre of Weybridge at a mini roundabout where, on a weekly basis, at least one car tries to kill me!! On one such occassion not too many weeks ago, I banged on the brakes to avoid some girlie in a fiesta joining the roundabout from my left and paused for a moment as my heart restarted. On the right of the roundabout waiting to join was a driving instructor with student. I looked at him, he looked at me and we both shrugged our shoulders in disbelief :roll: I must go down that road to the left one day to see if there's a 'YOU HAVE RIGHT OF WAY' sign ;-)
Anyway.. nice to see the Police are being diverted off such things to concentrate on more serious crimes
DelP wrote:Talking of the Police, Avon and Somerset Constabulary have announced their 'Operation Glitter' initiative...
..riding of pushbikes without lights after dark will mean an instant £30 fine..you will also be given info pack that contains a 10% discount voucher to buy new lights. On production of the receipt at a Police Station within seven days the fine will be written off...
The lesson is clear..get caught and claim your cheap lights :think:
ATB,
Derek
Gods, cyclists with no fecking lights really annoys me at the moment. I'm forever getting stuck behind them and what makes it worse is there is always some twat in an Audi parked in your back seat honking his horn even though it's completely unsafe to overtake. And then what makes it doubly worse is the pavement might be totally clear for miles ahead and they won't bump up to let the traffic past. Common sense people...
Cyclists should be registered and have to wear an identifying jacket so they can be reported as you would a cars license plate. Make the jacket come with lights built on and hey-presto, killing two birds with one stone.
That said I'm in favour of IQ tests and psychological evaluations as part of the driving test. A good half of the drivers you meet on the roads aren't mentally sound enough to be in charge of something that has so much capacity to cause harm in my opinion.
Garry Russell wrote:Doesn't matter how clear the pavement is :o ........riding on the pavement is illegal
Garry
So is riding without lights at night, and they are more of a danger on the road than they are on the pavement if they have no lights assuming the latter is empty.
I know riding without lights is illegal but how does that make suggesting they go on the pavemement OK?
Are you suggest that it one law is broken they they might as well break other laws???? :think:
At least the cyclists are stopping the cars from speeding
The cyclist have as much right on the roads and many of the motorist complaining about them should really be on bikes themselves instead of making short trips around town in their cars.
Garry
Garry
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
Actually, no-where did I suggest continuing to ride on the pavement. I wouldn't condone it if they did but it would be better than driving on the road without lights at night. There is nothing stopping them bumping up onto the pavement and stopping once there to let the queue of traffic past.
And your point about the cyclist slowing down traffic being a good thing is invalid. They force traffic to go so slowly that people get angry and being to drive aggressively and dangerously, so it's just as potentially dangerous as speeding.
As far as I'm concerned cyclists have no right to be on the roads until they are registered and wearing some form of identification akin to a cars registration so if they behave in an inappropriate or illegal fashion they can be immediately identified and a complaint can be filed.
