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@Jem PT Scots Gaelic for Police. And yes, it does seem very similar to the Scots English. ;)

I would use "illegal motorbikes", as there is never such a thing an illegal non-motorised bicycle.

What's with the bi-lingual 'Police' on the Scottish Police van?? (Or is the lower line 'Glaswegian'??

@stulemanski "... if drivers decided it was okay..."

Really? They lost me at "SUV".

@mitsky in theory there's a purpose, being it should mean steps to doing something about this can be skipped if they do this again or penalties could be higher etc. Since in practice nothing of consequence happens however (and certainly not like them immediately being banged up / car crushed etc - plus of course there might be a long period before anything might happen under the current system) it's simply "don't do it again, or we'll tell you not to do it again, again"...

@flowboy "Shared space" - this is a thing that some urban planners / designers got wildly enthusiastic about *. A couple of UK ones still do, long after the Dutch ones abandoned this as being dangerous and unpleasant for people not in motor vehicles. The take-home is it doesn't work well for humans. Safety is not best served by creating uncertainty. And motor traffic dominates as normal, except under very specific conditions **. Plenty on that online (see eg. David Hembrow's "a view from the cycle path" blog for that mostly in NL, Aseasyasridingabike for some UK examples). * I can only conclude they love being able to have more of a blank canvas to create on, so they can be more free to play with "blue sky" designs. Also perhaps they like the "cleaner lines" to spaces without all the paint, signs, marked areas for different modes etc. ** There is in fact an opportunity to have "sharing" and indeed "clean lines" - that is by having a genuine "home zone" / "play street" / "woonerf" (Dutch term). But that requires this is not a) still principally a space for motor vehicles, which in turn means b) those areas should not be permeable for driving through, and everything should promote very low speeds and indeed not much driving (or even parking) there.

@Paul J Also she pleaded with him at the time to stop the car, multiple times. She was apparently in absolute shock after the incident and felt threatened to write the note. We need to bear in mind what she had just witnessed Richardson do. He's undoubtedly a very violent man.

@flowboy "It's flat" / "It's the culture" - actually "it's a lot more complex". Flat: that is a thing, however there's more cycling in not terribly flat places like Switzerland / Norway than many UK places. (And eg. Maastricht is hilly, and while there's less cycling there than many places in NL there is *way* more than most of the UK). Alas the excellent "cycling fallacies" site - addressing a lot of misconceptions about cycling / cycle infra - seems to have died. I can only recommend eg. BicycleDutch's "How the Dutch got their cycle paths" - although it really could do with a book/movie-length treatment. As above. Bristol - lots of steep gradients, but cycling is growing there. Edinburgh - hills (and a mountain inside the city) but most gradients are relatively gradual and there's cycling. Both have quite a lot of motor-traffic (Bristol feels like an order of magnitude more...) though and are in no way approaching even Scandinavian cycling levels.

You had me until 'AI-powered automatic shifting'