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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!h21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <553eda99-bd61-45ce-b739-2fd7a863db02@h21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Cops stopping RLjers in London again. Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:53:26 -0700 (PDT) References:  <7c92nsF26jbm9U2@mid.individual.net>  Lines: 41 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.163.209.43 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247766806 30508 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2009 17:53:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:53:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.163.209.43; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2603 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:717929

On Jul 16, 5:36=A0pm, spindrift  wrote: > On Jul 16, 5:27=A0pm, Bod  wrote: > > > > > spindrift wrote: > > > Cyclists who jump reds annoy the hell out of me, they make it harder > > > for me and set back the cycling cause. > > > > But this is soft policing. > > > > A box-ticking exercise. > > > > How would you rather see the CoL police force use their time and > > > energies? > > > > We've had 8 cyclists killed by HGVs in London this year. A spot check > > > of HGVs in London found that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM breached road > > > safety law, the driver was uninsured, on a mobile, had fiddled the > > > tacho. > > > > 1 in 8 cars in London are uninsured. > > > > Speed limits, ASLs, cycle lanes are regularly flouted. > > > > I see a dozen drivers on mobiles every day. > > > > These should be police priorities, not stupid box-ticking exercises. > > > > Vote me for mayor and I'll sort out policing priorities. > > > But you'd stop all cars entering London. > > > Bod- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > No, I wouldn't, but congratulations on posting the irrelevant straw > man so early, well done.

He was bang on. You hate motorists. It couldn't be more obvious.