Video: London cyclist gets £50 for straying off shared use path blocked by phone box

I'd like to know why it is that police are allowed to piss off cyclists with their petty 'spirit of the law' ignoring egotistical badgering of cyclists but apparently your average copper is not authorised to do anything about traffic violations by motorists other than call the traffic cops, which of course they're not going to do.

PCSO's are possibly the most pointless creations ever, you either have been trained to know the law and enforce it, or you haven't. It's pretty clear which category this plastic copper falls into.
They're out in force at the moment outside Southwark tube station and having witnessed a really bad high speed near miss with a car recklessly turning right across a cyclist and watched the PCSO turn actively his back on it and walk away just earlier in the week, I can only include they are a form of tax raising drones.

This reminds me of the Daniel Cadden case, where police got it completely wrong, though his conviction was eventually overturned on appeal.

Lesson to be learned - get out of the cycle paths and onto the roads!

Money has just been spent building a completly useless shared use path in the town where I live recently. It's not at all intregrated with the road network, so I've no idea how you are even supposed to access it and it doesn't actually seem to go to or from anywhere. Worst of all it's only a few hundred yards long so only good for about 20 seconds of cycling, which would take much longer as you'd need to give way to cross a side street and avoid dozy pedestrians. It's going to be great for pavement cyclists but that's about it. I'll stick with the road thanks chaps, how about sorting out some of those pot holes seeing as you've got money to throw away?

This hasn't quite managed to rouse me to anger this morning. All I can manage is a mild sigh and a dispirited "yup".

I've had precisely one interaction with a PCSO since their introduction. One shouted "shouldn't you be on the road" at me, when I cycled passed on a shared use pavement. To be fair, he did shout sorry when I gave him an exasperated look and gestured at the sign.

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Roger Geffen
Campaigns & Policy Director, CTC

Local authorities regularly put pointless cycle lanes where it is cheapest to do so. Recently there was piece on here about traders loosing money because a cycle lane had replaced parking spaces, to me it was evident that the council had ticked the "cycling box" by changing the writing on the road. Pointless no real gain to cyclists but a negative impact on trade, the elderly and handicapped and ultimately creating more anti cycling members of the public. There should be cycle lanes but they should be fit for purpose not just thrown in where theres a gap.Amateur politicians, the same people who deploy PSCO's (via an increasingly political police force), onto our street to tick another box, pointless waste of money. The issue that I'm beating around is the sometimes rabid support of anything pro cycling shown here does nothing for the cause. There are individuals who try to introduce conciliatory opinions but they usually get taken apart and insulted by some hero from behind the security of a computer screen. If the opinion and attitude of some of the contributors was mirrored by those who promote cycling then nothing would be achieved. A move from the current polarisation of opinion amongst road users will be essential if meaningful changes are to occur.