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Live blog: Tour de France highlights and reaction, tributes paid to former Thai Navy SEAL and cyclist Saman Kunan, who passed away in Thai cave mission, Tiesj Benoot abandons Tour, Stage 5 updates + more
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Wed, Jul 11, 2018 14:26
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Ben Graham 18 minutes ago
Hi Bungle, I saw you follow-up comment. I can't imaging there's a tolerance of 4 seconds on camera enforced lights, seems an odd decision - an offence is committed if a vehicle starts crossing on a red, any tolerance is discretionary. There does seem to be some odd thinking about 'advanced stop lines' where the rules relating to them are identical to a regular stop line, as explained correctly elsewhere in the Highway Code. It does seem a regular offence. Where I live it doesn't help that some of them are very faint and disappear in rain.
Rendel Harris 51 minutes ago
@ktache Not sure he's totally ruled out of the worlds yet (though I think it would be best if he doesn't), normal recovery time is about eight weeks but surgery can halve that...depending on the nature of the break he could be just about fit to ride by the time of the elite men's race, but he'll have missed a lot of training. Hopefully his managers and team will persuade him to wait until Lombardia, if not just to knock it off for the rest of the year.
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@Bungle_52 The Met told me a couple of years ago when rejecting a submission that they needed a clear three seconds of red visible before they would consider it for an RLJ prosecution. I pointed out to them that this meant that at 30 mph a driver could see a light change to red from 40 metres away and still get through without sanction, or 55 m if they accelerated to 40 as most do. They just replied "them's our rules..."
Bungle_52 2 hours ago
@Ben Graham I have just checked the footage from my report. The driver crosses the 1st stop line 4 seconds after the light turns red. All on camera from behind the vehicle. No further action. So I assume the margin is at least 4 seconds.
chrisonabike 3 hours ago
Oh, and active travel funding per head (in England at least) is laughable compared to other places. Plus it is delivered intermittently. It's more like a Blue Peter contest...
chrisonabike 3 hours ago
Yup, I see those opportunities being missed all the time in Edinburgh. When it gets really bad, dig it all up and put it back down again how it was. Contrast with what seems to happen in NL - when things are dug up the whole thing seems to get a "let's redo this according to the current standards" treatment. They even coordinate with the utilities, so that after a refurb the street isn't immediately dug up again because of leaking pipes / we suddenly realised the new estate being planned for round the corner will want broadband etc. Pros and cons of course - you may wait longer there for changes as smaller changes may be deferred until a major redo is due. (Though in the UK case you likely wouldn't get them at all...) It seems we "can't have nice things" in the UK in part because a) we have greater motor traffic speeds/volumes spead across "streets" / within urban areas b) the funding and organisational responsibility differs. Are we in the "Sam Vimes boots" territory (being too poor to afford better products which not only save money over time but actually work)? There is long term money pressure on LAs and it seems that due to poor construction and maintenance we have to regularly pour money into (pot-)holes in the road. And it seems there's no budget to check up on or enforce adequate standards from utilities work or even private building.
ktache 4 hours ago
Shame about the world champs defence. Speedy recovery. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/30/tadej-pogacar-vuelta-a-espana-cycling-crash-hospital-stage-nine
mdavidford 5 hours ago
I believe the accepted form for this kind of argument is "I know you are, you said you were, but what am I?".
bikes 6 hours ago
Also the ability for drivers to see things is far worse as it's significantly obstructed by the frame of the vehicle.
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Tour de France highlights and reaction, tributes paid to former Thai Navy SEAL and cyclist Saman Kunan, who passed away in Thai cave mission, Tiesj Benoot abandons Tour, Stage 5 updates + more”
Is JOGLE really the boy’s
Is JOGLE really the boy’s surname, or is it just the acronym for John-o-Groat’s/Land’s End (even though you report he’s doing LEJOG rather than JOGLE?
CygnusX1 wrote:
If you click through to his web page it shows his real surname is Pearson.
Simon E wrote:
I tried but my company’s web filter blocked it, otherwise I might have added that snippet myself.
There’s a a family riding
There’s a a family riding LEJOG right now with 7 and 10 year old children very much doing the whole thing!
http://www.bromleytimes.co.uk/news/musical-penge-family-to-cycle-900-miles-for-the-alzheimer-s-society-1-5490134
Thiey have a blog which is being updated daily with their progress:
https://alvinmoisey2018.wordpress.com/
Looks like young Ruby could
Looks like young Ruby could do with some factor 50, and/or a glass of cold water – she’s looking rather red in the face.
CygnusX1 wrote:
Ruby by name…
Urgh 1km @ 29%!
Urgh 1km @ 29%!
I’ve loved every climb I’ve ever done apart from Rosedale Chimney and that’s nothing compared to this! I was convinced my chain was going to snap on the 33% section.
RIP Saman Kunan, the world
RIP Saman Kunan, the world lost a hero for those kids
So desperately sad about the
So desperately sad about the ex-navy diver. In those extremely difficult situations you simply can’t make a single error in judgement or take chances even if what you’re doing is trying to save a life, it’s one of the most dangerous things on the planet to do. He didn’t have to be there, he didn’t have to risk his life but he did, he stood up to be counted putting his very life on the line to save others and should be posthumously given an award for his selfless sacrifice.
the thing that makes me puke, when you hear soccer pundits (yes that’s you shearer you plumb!) calling the football players ‘hero’s’, get to fuck, no, they’re been paid a shit ton of money to play sport, they are most definitely not hero’s ffs!
Amen.
Amen.