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[Politics] "We're cracking down on dangerous cycling".



vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,894
Was mentioned on Radio Sussex that all new bicycles are meant to be sold with a bell already fitted?

So, if an owner removes the bell maybe they should be subject to a Bell-End Tax?
 




Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull
Aug 27, 2011
8,559
Brighton
With the evenings getting darker now why don't the police sit at a junction along Lewes Road, somewhere between Elm Grove and Falmer, and fine every cyclist who 1/ has no lights and 2/ jumps a red light. They could make a fortune.
 


Stat Brother

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 11, 2003
73,754
West west west Sussex
With the evenings getting darker now why don't the police sit at a junction along Lewes Road, somewhere between Elm Grove and Falmer, and fine every cyclist who 1/ has no lights and 2/ jumps a red light. They could make a fortune.

and motorists on the phone as well as pedestrians head down jay walking straight into the road.
 


Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...
Mar 18, 2010
29,804
Hove
With the evenings getting darker now why don't the police sit at a junction along Lewes Road, somewhere between Elm Grove and Falmer, and fine every cyclist who 1/ has no lights and 2/ jumps a red light. They could make a fortune.

You could sit at the junction of Old Shoreham Road and Boundary Road and fine every driver that 1/ is on the phone 2/ jumping the lights; actually make a fortune AND catch someone who is more likely to kill someone else...
 


zefarelly

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Jul 7, 2003
21,834
Sussex, by the sea
"We're cracking down on dangerous cycling".

It would be interesting to see how many cyclists have a bike/car license . . . or even a cycling proficiency test.

Fines and penalties for utter twattery on the roads should be higher and harder. . . . especially given how cocooned most people seem to be, either in cars or riding bikes/walking across the road, blinkered with headphones on oblivious to the world around them, a
 




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