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Mea culpa! I’m looking after
Mea culpa! I’m looking after someone’s cat while she’s away at Christmas, and cats are warm-blooded cold-blooded killers. Am I the guilty man?
Just like pushing a sore
Just like pushing a sore tooth, it’s sometimes worth looking at these comments to see just how thick thick people are. Last night on the BBC NW England local news there was an item about Christmas traffic jams in Manchester- it was all being blamed on roadworks. We could see on screen briefly that at least some of the roadworks were for…wait for it!..a cycleway, although there was no mention of that in what was broadcast. Neither was there anybody saying to the complainants: well don’t drive in you stupid *******, use public transport
Good link- usual Bingo
Good link- usual Bingo comments with malevolent thicko NIMBYs pretending to care about the disadvantaged, disabled etc. On the same page is the enlightening “Man dies after being found seriously injured in Bristol“- this is about 99% probability a hit-an-run, but the death is described by the police as ‘not being suspicious’. This roughly translates as ‘somebody driving a vehicle has killed somebody else, but that’s not deemed to be as serious as somebody not driving a vehicle killing somebody else. The police statement wording implies that their ‘investigative enquiries’ were completed by about 5:50am- I hope this is not true.
We’re approaching half way
We’re approaching half way through December 24 now- any progress on the Met’s hopefully will be live in December 2024, where you will be able to view the results of Public Reporting traffic offences?
I’m compiling my evidence to APPGCW, and pointing out the great lengths the police go to in covering-up that they didn’t do anything about offences against cyclists. Lancashire refused to tell me, citing the usual GDPR distortion, while Northampton puts out huge lists of what happened in all their cases- you just have to know the reference number to find the relevant case on the published spreadsheet. So is the Carrick-Couzens Memorial Police Force going to come up with the promised counterpart to the Northampton scheme?
Norfolk Police said the woman
Norfolk Police said the woman has since been reported for driving without due care and attention. Motorists charged with the offence face a fine of up to £5,000, penalty points or disqualification from driving
They may face them- they just don’t get them. What’s the dodge going to be this time? Plea bargain in which the driver pleads guilty to ‘not quite absolutely perfect driving? Police quietly drop the case, but keep it quiet?
Those four foot high retro
Those four foot high retro reflective SLOW markings seem to encourage some really dangerous driving
Indeed! The county council road marking teams have a lot to answer for!! Just moments after one of them, the Stagecoach bus driver was forced into this:
https://upride.cc/incident/sk19evw_stagecoach42_closepass/
I think that there are
I think that there are certain road layouts that encourage a close pass
There certainly are- many of mine are in the same place: the bus/ van/ car overtakes blithely at a blind hill crest followed by a 90° right when, who’d have thought it?, but there’s heavy incoming traffic so you put the foot down and squeeze the cyclist as much as you can get away with, which is everything in LancashireThat wasn’t the question/
That wasn’t the question/ pointLocals should survey this
Locals should survey this PCCs statements for ‘I can’t interfere with operational decisions of the police’Good! Presumably the worst
Good! Presumably the worst one, at least, was reported to the police, or the OPCC would immediately have sent you there without comment. Show us the link to *******!!!!, so we can see the offence which caused the PCC to stray from the standard “I can’t interfere with operational decisions of the police”!With all that money, he could
With all that money, he could
wipe out hunger/homelessness/diseasesbuy a pair of KOM hubsAnybody got one? -especially interested in the rear
Does nobody sport a sense of
Does nobody sport a sense of humour any more? You can tell this is a jokey festive spoof from: I did suggest that you take note of the number plate details, maybe use mobile phones, and then upload that to Op Snap,” he advised, referring to a police tool for
reportingbinning reports of traffic offencesThere is now a development of
There is now a development of uncertain veracity on this Nissan, with a photo somebody has sent me suggesting it’s stolen.
WU59 UMH is well known to the police and to my fans on here having today achieved a landmark 7 full years without VED. Didn’t quite make the 7 years without MOT, but was driving around for 6 months after an MOT failed for several “dangerous” defects
This is a shot from some sort of ‘motor trade’ website which I don’t know, but to get the full report you have to pay £12, which I’m not interested in and wouldn’t be able to trust if I was. The police could still make up a claim that it wasn’t nicked and I wouldn’t be able to check. I began looking for MOT offenders around May 22, and the first time I reported it was August 22- I don’t know if I saw it previously so it couold be new to this area. I assumed that there was a trade in these ‘No MOT/ No VED so untraceable’ vehicles, and the importance for me was that the police were ignoring it as usual but on my second detection he’d had his phone numbers and Facebook page for his agricultural business signed on the back. I didn’t actually suspect it was nicked because you’d think even Lancashire officers could detect that. I’ll just mention the possibility to the PCC.
Local papers never reply and
Local papers never reply and are only there for advertising. Lancashire Constabulary is only too keen to state firmly that VED evasion is nothing to do with them, and the previous Tory PCC was equally keen to state firmly that operational decisions of the police (which covers everything you want to complain about) was nothing do with him. Now that the local champion evader has returned after a 4 week absence and is now parked at the usual pub 150 yards from Filth Central, the new People’s Crime Commissioner is about to be informed of some of these LC operational decisions so that he can have the opportuniy of stating it’s nothing to do with him either.
no one cares enough to fix it
no one cares enough to fix it
It’s even worse than that- the authorities (police mainly) are actively working against ‘active travel’, cyclists in general… No police vehicle has close passed me in the past 5 years, which is the time I’ve been looking out for the event, but they’re certainly not interested in dissuading anybody else from passing as closely as they like and reports are just binned without even declaring them ‘NFA’. Close Pass of the Day on here, which could be filled many times over, has made no difference – years of propaganda with no effect at all, which is largely down to our main enemy.
