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Bit harsh. HP was clearly tongue in cheek or sarcasm or plain despair !
Do I get a discount for all three?
If we really must (big big If) keep letting these idiots back on the roads when they would normally be banned, perhaps the courts should be able putting further conditions on these special sentences, like maximum engine capacity/power. Or even that any further infractions will get double the normal sentence (including length of driving ban)Doubling the sentence won’t do anything if they can just claim the same defense. What’s needed is for magistrate to be held accountable for not dispensing justice.
Great – so company directors
Great – so company directors can get away with breaking the law now?
Are consequences just for wage slaves?
Pfft…..Think yourself lucky, at least you have a cycle lane with some kind of segregation, even if pricks in their cars think its somewhere to park their motor.
Up here in Derby the council have decided that to meet it’s commitment to Clean Air Zone is to remove one of the very few cycle lanes altogether, as increasing traffic speed is alledgedly the way to reduce pollution!
Go figure…..
I wish we could hold council members responsible for counter-productive decisions like that. I’d love to see them held responsible for illnesses and deaths caused by their slavish devotion to the personal motor vehicle when the inevitable pollution still doesn’t meet legal levels.
Sorry to hear about your
Sorry to hear about your collision (probably more of a RTC than a RTA).
Which police force is it that’s failing to investigate properly?
There is a great deal of dislike for the police on this forum.
Some is justified, but the individual copper cannot be held responsible for the failings of other Police Forces (Lancashire gets a lot of stick)
Often the Police are held responsible for the failings of the CPS and the Justice System. I reckon that in this respect we may actually both be on the same side.
I think we should give the copper a fair trialAs Steve K says, there’s also a lot of support here for the police that are trying to improve road safety (commenters seem to fawn over Insp. Kevin Smith when he posts). I’d guess that police are very experienced in dealing with criticism from the public, so I’d be surprised if they shirk away from awkward questions.
However, cyclists and the police are definitely on the “same side” and both want safer roads, so I’d recommend going for questions about their intentions and recommendations rather than highlighting any failings.
You could throw in some questions about cyclist road positioning (taking primary) and also about riding two abreast when in groups as that should be easy for them to answer and hopefully won’t be controversial at all.
Yep – those temporary
Yep – those temporary bollards are a bit crap. Bristol needs some decent permanent active travel infrastructure (for bikes and illegal e-scooters too), but most of the infrastructure that I’ve seen around Bristol has been poorly thought out and doesn’t connect with anything useful. The bits around Temple Meads are fairly useless unless you like stopping and waiting (after pressing a beg button) every 10-20m.
Ask about submitting videos
Ask about submitting videos for close passes and what they would want from statements and which kind of offences they’re most interested in seeing. Also some follow up questions about whether they’ll be undertaking any close-pass schemes.
I agree. As personal
I agree. As personal transport, e-scooters are small, light and cheap compared to motor vehicles.
Currently, the law allows motorists to feel entitled to harrass e-scooterists for not being allowed on the roads, even when they might happen to be using a legal version (e.g. VOI). Legalise them and then see how best to deal with the problems they cause. I suspect that the number of KSIs will be fairly small in comparison to those caused by motor vehicles.
I’d say that applies to
I’d say that applies to Labour as well – I can’t recall them advocating active travel in any meaningful way.
It’s all about following the money.
What seems bizarre to me is
What seems bizarre to me is the “Whitehall would not fund any measures, such as new cycling routes, that did not directly help to drive down NO2 levels in the city to the legal limit or below”.
Now as far as I’m aware, getting people out of cars and onto bikes will definitely drive down NO2, so I can’t understand why they won’t fund active travel in an effort to bring our air to legal limits unless maybe they and their friends don’t stand to make much money from that.
We can still buy tariff free from Portugal.But then have to pay 20% VAT? And customs duty could apply to some items as well?
Wouldn’t the 20% VAT apply no matter where you bought it from?
Again referencing the GridIron, one of the treats were the horses, cows sheep and pigs who think that roads are perfectly acceptable places to sleep, graze, .Tarmac eating livestock, pretty hardcore
They’d have to eat a lot of tarmac to get through to the hardcore
Fundamentally horses are nervous creatures not evolved for carrying other species on their backs.That explains the long face, then
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You (one) take risks every time you sit on a bike or even step out the door and I’d hazard a guess that no single bike component is immune from potential failure. Cranks probably a worse one to fail I agree but I wouldn’t mind betting most other brands of crank have failed before now too regardless of whether it made the press. Are 105 crank arms any different in construction to Ultegra? I know the Tiagra ones are solid but 105 are a lot lighter so are they hollow and liable to the same mode of failure too?105 is hollow forged which means that it is made from one piece. Ultegra and Dura-Ace are hollow-bonded which involves “gluing” 2 pieces together.