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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!v35g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Motorists can legally flout the rules of the road Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:45:10 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 24 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.154.123.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1240670710 1569 127.0.0.1 (25 Apr 2009 14:45:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v35g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.154.123.12; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2540 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:697942

On Apr 25, 3:07=A0pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > New guidelines issued to the Metropolitan police means that motorists > can openly flout many highway code rules without risk of the police > taking any action other than a word in their ear.

You know perfectly well that it's nothing like that. Motorists will nearly always now be fined for every little infringement, however minor and with no discretion whatsoever, due to the presence of council cameras. Like with parking, the whole thing will now be about taking as much money from motorists as possible, and the original aims of the laws (keeping traffic moving and road users safe) will be of no concern whatsoever to the councils.

Additionally, uninsured, unlicensed and drunk drivers will now get away with it *even more* than they already do because the police will be stopping even fewer people. As usual with remote enforcement, only those who register their cars and use their own cars will have anything to worry about. It's a bloody disgrace.

This is yet more bad news for mainly law-abiding motorists, and yet another stealth tax (how nice during this economic climate), and doubtless the car-haters here are jumping for joy, even while pretending to be indignant that motorists will now have it "easier".