Boris Johnson against banning cyclists from London's South Bank

LondonCalling - that's a disappointing attitude from a police officer. I regularly go over the line at stop lights to avoid being driven into by left turning traffic and to get away from the sensors that are only triggered by cars. There are several red lights I will go through because they are only triggered by the presence of cars and my life is too short to wait for a car to turn up.

Left turns on red and straight ahead where there is no left turn would be an excellent legal change.

There is another good reason for ASLs and that's because many large vehicles cannot get round corners because councils have badly painted the stop lines for cars (there are several round here even on bus routes). So even if you weren't enforcing them for bikes you are at least doing so to ease the flow of traffic. A stuck bus or lorry holds up the traffic very substantially.

Back to the point of the post, I would hope that Boris can bring in what they do in Paris which is to bar traffic by the riverside on Sundays. This is to allow roller blading, running and cycling along the Seine. I still haven't had a reply to my suggestion of doing this will send the email again.

It never ceases to amuse me how fast "the powers that be" react when there is a complaint about cycling. Cue Clapham Common, where there are also 8mph signs for cyclists - as if all of us carried a computer on our handlebars - as a result of a bunch of complaints about cyclists speeding... on the provided cycle lane, funny enough.

We have been complaining about the use of ASL's by cars, motorbikes, buses, vans, etc, etc, to no avail, when it's that kind of actions that actually cost lives (cue cyclist in Holborn who died because a left turning lorry was occupying the ASL. Driver was not even fined). We also complained about cycle lanes being used as parking spaces. Nothing happens.

I had a conversation with a copper at the cycle show in October about the user of ASL's and that they should be enforced, otherwise, they are a waste of paint. His response was "we can't enforce them because cyclists need to obey the highway code". My conclusion was that the people who are there to protect our lives (as people, not as cyclists) are more interested in "calming down" narrow minded Daily Mail reading biggots than actually doing the job they are being paid for, by our taxes! The opinion of those biggots is more important than my life, or yours.

This country hates its cyclists.

Just checked my calendar to make sure I hadn't hibernated for 3 months and woken on 1st April.

What a waste of tax-payers money, putting up signs that prohibit something which is not illegal.

What happens if one of these 'flabby clueless PCSO's(TM)' attempts to stop a cyclist and they refuse to. Cue armed response vehicles and helicopters in pursuit of a person guilty of 'aggresive cycling'?

“a small number of aggressive cyclists were spoiling it"

This is exactly correct. Cycled at a gentle 5-8 mph the whole stretch, but particularly the Lambeth Bridge/Westminster Bridge stretch is perfectly safe and pleasant for everyone. There is simply no need for a ban.

It is also, typically, crawling with flabby clueless PCSO's wandering about rubbing their manboobs under their stab vests, who have presumably been watching this small number of people spoiling it without comment before weighing in behind a total ban. Great work all round.

Why no legal action against the council for the illegal signs? Why no press campaign about the council exceeding their powers? Another example of how useless the CTC and the rest of the 'polite' cycling groups are. Someone in London should organise a mass cycle protest on the West Bank. Read a bit of history about the ramblers and how they opened access to the English countryside if you want to know how to get change. You only get justice if your willing to fight.