TfL and Met Police to get tough on anti-social driving

@Awavery

according to Royal Mail (I tweeted this picture to their London account) their driver was totally in the wrong as no permission had been given either by borough Police nor local authority, and this particular driver was instructed about not parking on permanent cycle lanes in the future, following my complaint. 

I love the way this private builder has attempted to turn a permanent cycle lane into his own private site parking with some warning tape

blue paint and double yellow lines are confusing for some drivers?

perhaps this new team of crime busters could advert their gaze towards Regent's Park, unless they consider its just "speeding cyclists" that are causing all the trouble

the irony of the "traffic control" vehicle illegally parked on double yellow lines next to a busy corner in the park

as well as the usual lorries...

considering this vehicle was set here whilst I did several laps of the park, would have been an easy ticket for vehicle enforcement team

and the usual we see all over London...

levermonkey wrote -

"Not to mention that in order to have illegally parked in that position he must have illegally driven on the pavement in the first place.

Could Sir Alan please come forward to recieve the 'Mahoosive Cockwomble of the Day' Award."

Unfortunately, the police will not do anything about illegally driving and parking on the pavement - they make the excuse that there has to be evidence that a vehicle was driven onto the pavement and will actually argue that - "the vehicle could have been pushed"!!

If just £1 could be gained for every infringement made by motorists and used for cycling infrastructure, there would be a rapid transformation to a normalised mass bike culture.

Should have happened long before now.   

I think tackling dangerous driving should be a higher priority. Commuting to work this morning on the my motorbike, I saw a pick up truck wandering from lane to lane so I opted to stick behind it rather than overtake. When a traffic jam brought the cars to a halt, I filtered past and sure enough, the driver was on the phone. On the way home, a van waited at the lights when they changed and then roared off at speed, in excess of the speed limit. This included going over a pedestrian crossing at over 30mph when stopped traffic on the other side meant the driver couldn't see if anyone was crossing, a crossing where there was a fatality earlier this year. When the van stopped because of a jam, I again filtered past and again, the driver was on the phone.

When are traffic police going to get serious about this? I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees people driving while on the phone and even texting or using the internet.

Parking in the wrong place and jamming up traffic is annoying, but it's not that dangerous.

"TfL and Met get tough on parked cars"

There, fixed it for you.

Less obstructions on the roads (to traffic flow) means less irate drivers and also less space being taken from cyclists, i.e. lorries parked on double yellows blocking a cyclepath.

Just this morning I was stuck in a queue (narrow road, no room to get past safely) that i found was due to... a bin having blown in the road.  I nip off the bike, move bin to the drive of the house it blew from and then nearly get run down trying to get back on my bike as all the drivers behind are itate at the queue and had no idea of the cause, just a cyclist stood in the way.  The road is normally pleasant to use.

This is about achieving higher traffic flows, not safety for vulnerable road users.

Don't get any ideas about "anti-social driving" including  the likes of close overtakes or typical examples of careless driving or dangerous driving.

Read through the typs of misdemeanour described. Hardly any of it refers to typical rule and law breaking which endangers others on the roads.