Illegal parking in cycle lanes - name and shame

gadgetmind

forgotmyname wrote: »

Except cyclists do injure and even known to kill people when ridden without due care.

Yes, correct. Three people a decade are killed by cyclists, and even some of those are subject to opinion.

Meanwhile, motor vehicles kill close to 3000 people per year.in the UK and maim and injure many more.

There are bad cyclists, bad pedestrians and bad drivers. Only the latter kill thousands of people, mainly those in the former two categories.

e999sam

forgotmyname wrote: »

Except cyclists do injure and even known to kill people when ridden without due care.

Sit at a set of lights in london i bet you could stop a cyclist every 2 minutes that failed to stop at the lights.

The figure of one car stopped every three minutes is fact your assumption that cyclist fail to stop at red traffic lights every two minutes is not. What is fact are surveys done by TFL and the Cambridge police.

In the TFL study they watched 7502 cyclists at several junctions in London and 84% of them obeyed the red light signal.

At one of the locations in the Cambridgeshire Police speed survey of the 6817 vehicles observed 2935 were exceeding the ACPO guidelines of 10% + 2mph.

In another study by TFL between 1998 and 2007 precisely 0 deaths of pedestrians were caused by cyclist jumping red lights and in the shorter period from 2001 and 2005 7 deaths of pedestrians were caused by car drivers jumping red lights.

rev_henry

johnfarquhar74 wrote: »

I think you're being generous with 2 minutes, I'd suggest every cycle of the lights!
However, that is London. I'm sure a couple of years back some cycling fraternity were trying to legalise the passing of red lights by cyclists, apparently it was deemed safer? Regardless, maybe all that talk created a confusion.
The rest of the UK is nowhere near as bad as London.

From what I've seen the rest of the UK is worse than London because there the police actually bother to routinely stop and fine RLJing cyclists, unlike anywhere else.

custardy

forgotmyname wrote: »

Except cyclists do injure and even known to kill people when ridden without due care.

Sit at a set of lights in london i bet you could stop a cyclist every 2 minutes that failed to stop at the lights.

2nd April to 5th April as part of Edinburghs cycle safe initiative
Lothian Borders Police stopped 106 motorists for stopping in the ASLs over that period.
32% of those were black cabs


in the same study 26 cyclists were stopped for red light jumping

3670 drivers caught using bus lanes in April

http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/transport/fines-plan-sparks-review-for-bus-lane-overhaul-1-2256412

rev_henry

custardy wrote: »

2nd April to 5th April as part of Edinburghs cycle safe initiative
Lothian Borders Police stopped 106 motorists for stopping in the ASLs over that period.
32% of those were black cabs


in the same study 26 cyclists were stopped for red light jumping

3670 drivers caught using bus lanes in April

http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/transport/fines-plan-sparks-review-for-bus-lane-overhaul-1-2256412

Ah so its not just my imagination that, despite generally being one of the best groups of drivers in my experience, they're the worst ASL offenders.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

I parked over a cycle lane today. Bite me.

custardy

rev_henry wrote: »

Ah so its not just my imagination that, despite generally being one of the best groups of drivers in my experience, they're the worst ASL offenders.

yup,my experience would agree.
In fact one of my fellow Edinburgh cyclists was remostrated by a black taxi driver.
he was told the ASL wasn't active after 6.30pm

gadgetmind

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

I parked over a cycle lane today. Bite me.

At least you know that you did something wrong. It's a start.

liam8282

gadgetmind wrote: »

There are bad cyclists.

Well done! :T

gadgetmind

liam8282 wrote: »

Well done! :T

You were told several times, by several different people, that claims otherwise were a straw man of your own invention. Even after this, you continued to trot out said straw man, and it seems that you're still attempting to do it long after everyone has quite thoroughly seen through this tactic.