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This is an interesting topic-

This is an interesting topic- it’s good to see somewhere making some progress against the Tory/ Torygraph/ hyper-junk Mail-inspired routine Two Minute Hates in various parts of the country

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While we appreciate there

While we appreciate there will be unavoidable delays while the work is undertaken, once the work is complete the bridge will continue to be used and cherished for years to come

Nope- there’ll be another crazed nutter driver along soon. We had a canal bridge repaired near here, and pretty much as soon as the big red and white plastic/ water barriers protecting the new stone bridge walls were removed, somebody knocked one of them into the canal again.

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Wow! If he only got a joke

Wow! If he only got a joke penalty for totalling 3 ‘motahs’, imagine the commendation he’d have received if had only been cycles or cyclists he’d hit!

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You’re both living in the

You’re both living in the past, hidebound by unthinking adherence to an outmoded document long abandoned by the police. Why, here in Lancashire, our brave lads in go-ahead Lancashire Constabulary have long since legitimised crossing unbroken white lines while overtaking at any speed and in any dangerous position in order to keep the country moving!

https://upride.cc/incident/ds16wjx_peugeot_uwlcross/

This ignored offence by the driver of JP63 PEA is just approaching the crest of a humpbacked bridge which is immediately followed by a left hand bend

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I’ve never experienced a duff

I’ve never experienced a duff chain which was noticeably different from all the others. On the other hand, I haven’t gone above 9-speed and I assume 13-speed have chocolate side-plates

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It’s some catch, that Catch
It’s some catch, that Catch 22: swear and the police go after you for a public order offence, don’t swear and you were obviously not ‘inconvenienced’ enough and it wasn’t a close enough pass

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The police are taking it

The police are taking it further with the driver, apparently…

That’s what the police want you to think- the ‘taking it further’ will, at best, likely be another letter to hang on a nail in the toilet with all the others or, more likely, nothing at all

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One for wtjs. Not Lancashire

One for wtjs. Not Lancashire and the reporter was an off duty police officer

Offender should have offended in Lancashire where the police show proper respect for people in large expensive fast cars.

https://upride.cc/incident/a15tjv_bmwm4_redlightpass/

Offence occurred at 16:19 on 14.9.24- driver of BMW M4 A15 TJV accelerated hard when the lights turned red. Reported to OpSnap Lancs at 17:30 the same day and given the code APL149463 (if LancsFilth could block me from using the site they would have done long ago, but they can’t because it’s national for all OpSnaps). This was the scene at the moment the lights changed to red, presumably the red wasn’t established enough

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I’d hope that there aren’t

I’d hope that there aren’t too many thieves wandering around with battery-powered diamond-disced* angle grinders…

I’d like to think that our ‘among the best in the world’ crims, armed and encouraged by police inaction and ‘can’t be arsed’ attitude, will not be discouraged by the hardly taxing job of putting a different disc onto their battery powered angle grinders

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 clearly isn’t one of life’s

 clearly isn’t one of life’s winners but yet our laws can’t see him deprived of his right to drive for life

Looks like Rab C. Nesbitt!

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Some of the guidance seems

Some of the guidance seems conflicting e.g. “We will not accept footage edited in any way”

The police often seem to be unable to use English in the normal way so we must take ‘any way’ as not being intended to mean ‘any way’, it’s just yet another dodge to enable them to bin cases they don’t like. They do use ambiguous language deliberately to cover up what they’re doing: this is what’s behind Lancashire’s ‘we’re taking action’ dodge, where they gave the usual options of advice letter, driving course etc. after the words ‘which could include the following’. Even Lancashire Constabulary officers are not dim enough to fail to realise that the proposed ‘action’ could also be ‘NFA’, especially as I told them years ago that the wording should be: ‘we are taking action which will be one of the following’. It’s deliberate all right, and remained unchanged. Now, of course, they just ignore all offences like the one in the photo below- although there is an interesting aspect to PK17 XHR, for those who want some sleuthing practice.

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I’m surprised nobody has

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned GPS. If the camera is not fully connected, the time and other GPS info. do not display. Obviously the chip knows ‘the time’ to within tiny fractions of a second, but we don’t know how long it takes to display time on screen. On my old Hero 7 Black it won’t display seconds natively, but I do know that phone network time, Rugby radio time and GoPro GPS time click over to a new minute within 2 seconds of each other. This is outside Garstang Library on Windsor Road, where the road runs W by WNW. GPS shows this, so there is no doubt about the time. This ‘accurate time’ dodge is just another police method of binning reports of drivers offending.

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Land Rover stuck in ancient

Land Rover stuck in ancient Dartmoor bog sparks outrage

When dimwits commit offences that the authorities don’t take seriously (KSI-ing cyclists, driving across fragile environments) the authorities ‘have a word with them’. Having a word, words of advice, advice letters, community resolution etc. are all worthless non-penalties which encourage the offender to do it again. Unfortunately, the idea of prosecuting their fellow motor-enthusiasts fills such minds as the non-police can muster with horror, so they do anything they can to avoid such an activity.

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Oh, and the Stagecoach driver

Oh, and the Stagecoach driver just before we got to Wick: you suck, get a different job

That sort of driving is a Stagecoach requirement for employment! They know that the Lancashire Constabulary b******s just bin all such reports, and that if they do ‘accidentally’ KSI a cyclist, they can just say the cyclist ‘jumped straight out in front of me; I didn’t stand a chance’ and have the police blame the cyclist.

https://upride.cc/incident/px12dnu_stagecoach40bus_closepass/

https://upride.cc/incident/px12eez_stagecoach41_closepass/

https://upride.cc/incident/px12dne_stagecoach42bus_closepass/

https://upride.cc/incident/px12dnd_stagecoach42_closepass/

PS Well done! It has been interesting following your progress

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some people certainly know

some people certainly know they are illegal to use in public

Unfortunately, ‘some people’ does not appear to include the police- at least in Lancashire

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