This week on road.cc

With regards to the priorities of the authorities... I requested that my local council and police install red light cameras at a specific junction as I noticed drivers repeatedly jumping them each time I passed through. The response was basically "We have no record of any KSIs there so will not do so." So they are basically waiting for a KSI before doing anything... I assume that if there is a serious incident there, the victim could sue for lack of action at a known hotspot.

But of course: And they can't possibly consider removing car parking to: Best to engineer the space to remove all people, that's better for everyone.

I'm not saying the officers acted with malice, just with stupidity and ignorance of physics and the law. (Once again, well done CyclingUK, who are a very fine organisation!)

@jackcycles There is no taking away or suffocating freedoms of other road users. Drivers are still free to drive. They are not and nor have they ever been free to to drive wherever they want, however they want. A cycle lane has never prevented someone from driving to a place they could previously drive for unless the plan was always to pedestrianise somewhere. What do you think about bus lanes and taxi lanes? I don't disagree that ideally cyclists simply share the road with cars. There is no question of joined up infrastructure or why cyclists aren't using the shit infra they are provided. The massive issue with that is that drivers aren't getting better, they are getting worse. Its nothing to do with cyclists and their behaviour and everything to do with motorists being absolutely unwilling to share the road with cyclists. I see this every time I go out on the bike. I see it every time I take my kids out on the back of the bike. Doesn't matter that I have small children on my bike, a large proportion of drivers couldn't care less and will bully me and put our safety in danger purely because they have the power in our dynamic. The other day within 1 minute of leaving my front door I saw a driver nearly hit the curb on a straight road because he was looking at his phone and then a middle age man cut the corner of a road I was coming to the end of so much that I had to swerve to avoid him. Drivers won't change so we have to remove them from the equation. They have to be treated like the children they are. If you can't share then we will take it away.

"...investigation will commence into alternate testing along with appropriate training for officers..." Translation: we'll try to understand the law, you know, that legal stuff we're meant to be upholding.

Do that one about "avid cyclist" => "angry motorist" again...

@andystow "Alright mate, no need to state the obvious"?

"Both the rider and Birmingham Bike Foundry have launched a legal appeal, supported by Cycling UK’s Cyclists’ Defence Fund, arguing that the process employed which led to the destruction of a £6,500 legal e-bike was “fundamentally flawed”." Good to see my money being put to good use. Keep it up! As others have said, if the police can just confiscate and destroy something which has broken no laws with no attempt to contact the owners, there is something seriously wrong that needs to be sorted out in court. I hope the owners are adequately compensated, including legal costs, and the police learn how to test an ebike.

Good idea asking Google

@Mr Blackbird and what would you say to cyclists who think there are already too many motorists on the road?