'Cycle lane parking puts lives at risk': Cyclist's sticker justice for bike lane van driver; Will you be paying Strava's increased price? (POLL); Another short cycle lane classic; Bizarre Argentinian mountain stage; New bike day + more on the live blog

I cancelled my Strava subscription a couple of weeks ago. Not because of the price rise, but because they posted an offer over the Christmas period which would give new subscribers 25% discount. At the bottom it said not applicable to existing subscribers. They shot themselves in the foot by posting it to everyone on the platform, including all the subscribers. Now, the one thing that I hate with a passion is when loyalty means nothing, and companies don't give a fuck once they've got you, and are only interested in getting more signed up.

I suspect there will be plenty more cancellations for the same reason.

Road CC you need to understand your own poll results for the Strava subscription result....the question you posed was 'will you be cancelling your subscription?' which the result was 70% no....but the statement you've posted is that 70% won't be renewing their subscription.

unless I'm being really thick and missed something..?

I alwys put something on cars parked in cycle lanes. 

I often run out of spit before I get to work...

The Stirchley cycle piccie inspired me to walk to the end of my road to picture the sign which mysteriously placed on our otherwise unsignposted not-a-cycle lane. I'd not really noticed it but checking Google its been there for a while.

https://goo.gl/maps/YP5CvskHKZosGYBB8

The peculiar thing is that the road opposite has the same arrangement of cycle lane running through the roundabout and gets no sign (edit: GM shows it had one but is now removed for unknown reasons, probably the car that ploughed off the roundabout last year), and there is no other signage apart from white paint for the rest of the cycle path (there is an arrow on the road which the council apparently think is adequate to indicate a shared use path - I wish they'd tell the bin men, parkers and everyone else who is annoyed at cyclists daring to use the pavement).

Cyclist catches 12 drivers using phones behind the wheel in an hour

Surely if Police Scotland are not protecting the public, they are not doing their job?  I'm not familiar with the situation in Scotland, but do they have police and crime commissioners there?  If so, I would be battering their door down, demanding action.

Is that very short bike lane Stirchly, Birmingham? If it is where I think it is, a house on the otherside of the road used to have a pet sheep in the garden, that you could see from the top deck of the 47 bus. #benefitsofactivetravel

12 phone drivers in an hour doesn't seem all that many to me, maybe it's much worse around here but I could probably catch 12 in a minute on a bad day.

I noticed one queueing at the top of the Redlands Road at the junction outside Reading Uni last week, seeing as I was stuck behind other badly positioned queueing drivers (travelling the opposite direction) I tapped on his window (in my thick winter cycling gloves)... He did the usual "just checking something... none of your business, etc" I responded that it is illegal and dangerous and he shouldn't be doing it. He then claimed he was checking sat nav, which I pointed out was actually in the middle of his dashboard, he then started making threats to me for touching his car, said he was going to pull over and sort me out. I asked whether he thought that was a sensible idea etc... he then pulled into the awkward side road, and lost his place in the queue while I filtered past the queue laughing down the hill enjoying my journey safely. Hope he learned a lesson about using a phone while driving and keeping his temper under control. 

National Highways are up to their old trick of destroying bridges again - this time it's Congham bridge in Norfolk: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/25/row-growing-after-third-historic-rail-bridge-filled-in-with-concrete

That's 72 endorsement points and £2,400 of fines @PoliceScotland could issue

That's Deacon Thurston, hawkinspeter and me, to name but three obsessives who keep harping on about the same old thing- we support each other by our very existence. The same process occurs with police forces- they support each other in bad behaviour: we saw recently how Sussex police had copied Lancashire Constabulary's stupid misuse of the GDPR regulations to force people submitting offences to declare that they had 'some form of notification on their mode of transport' in order to legitimise them filming people committing offences against them. Of course, approximately 0% of them do display such a notification, and I have never seen one in North Lancashire. If it became useful to them, the police would have resorted to well, if your declaration that you had this notification on your bike was untrue, how can the rest of your statement be trusted? In a way, it's like the 'swearing cyclist' dodge. One force ignoring a complete category of offences and clearly getting away with it emboldens another to do likewise.

It's police forces which essentially make the law in this country, by simply ignoring the bits they don't like or only using it against people they don't like. So Police Scotland is really being more honest in refusing to allow video reports of offences which they would then ignore after applying a few dodges- it is obvious they would have done nothing about these 12 offences even if the labour of reporting them had been undertaken. Lancashire just ignored these, with exact GPS timings

https://upride.cc/incident/yh66utp_audia1_handheldmobile/  YH66 UTP

https://upride.cc/incident/kd10wer_porsche_mobilephone/  KD10 WER

There are still far, far, too many drivers using their phones. Increasing the FPN to £200 plus 6 points and updating the law to make just the act of holding the phone illegal behind the wheel, has had very little effect, because it's still very difficult to get the police to take action.

Had one this morning, drifted out of their lane towards me when I was driving. I swerved out of their way and looked over, sure enough, staring down at their phone.

Of course I'll pay for the extra Strava price increase, I'm not poor

112km of descent? Think you might have slightly misread the profile there

Using a smartphone in a vehicle that doesn't move doesn't seem to me to pose any danger at all. Of course that changes if the drivers start moving.

If this guy with a camera. wants to report really dangerous stuff that happens way too often., he should take a speedometer and monitor speeds