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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!c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <31d8c56c-50e8-4d60-ae4a-08c9160091dc@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Cops stopping RLjers in London again. Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:52:56 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 29 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 1247766776 30453 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2009 17:52:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:52:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c29g2000yqd.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: 2237 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:717927

On Jul 16, 5:26=A0pm, 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.

In other words: "Police shouldn't be enforcing laws against cyclists, they should be enforcing laws against motorists, purely because I hate motorists and not cyclists".