RLJ (Red Light Jumping). (The definitive bikeradar thread)

Where has barber gone?

Am guessing he got lost in a crisp packet and is struggling to get out.

must be cutting hair surely?

1. The enforcement operations on Thursday 24 June will take place between 08.00 and 10.00 and 16.00 and 19.00, to coincide with peak hour traffic.

2. The morning operation will take place at Cockspur Street by Trafalgar Square in Westminster, and the afternoon operations will take place at Aldersgate Street, Bishopsgate, Ludgate Hill, The Bank and the Barbican Estate in the City of London.

3. The locations for the enforcement operations have been selected on the basis of cycle collision data and known road user anti-social behaviour hotspots.

4. The increase in enforcement operations at key locations and junctions across London will take place between now and the end of the year and are part of the Share the Road campaign, to reduce conflict between all road users.

(and more, cut for brevity) Thanks to JackT. TFL Press release online link not found yet but it's out there.. somewhere.

3rd Party report:

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/32374/Law-breaking-cyclists-and-drivers-in-London-targeted-by-TFL

hmmm sitting at lights for me like a good boy on the way home then

They will, of course, be stopping motorised vehicles entering ASLs or transgressing cycle lanes, left-hooking, speeding, overtaking too close, and drivers using mobile phones, won't they?

....won't they?

No. Of course they won't. Because an RLJing cyclist (and, don't get me wrong, they'll not catch me doing that) is soooo much more dangerous than a truck being driven by a fuckwit in a busy city.

OK, it does say that, in this case, they will be targetting drivers as well. But I'd be interested to hear on-the-spot reports.

Yeah!

They will, of course, be stopping motorised vehicles entering ASLs or transgressing cycle lanes, left-hooking, speeding, overtaking too close, and drivers using mobile phones, won't they?

yes - this one is explicitly all road users. so ASL + Phones for motorised

ride up to red light, dismount, walk across, cheeky wave at officer, remount, off you go!

Or you could save all that hassle and just stop.

yes i spotted them at trfalgr sqr this morning, generally i never stop at the red light there but i did today :)

Or you could save all that hassle and just stop.

aaaaand bingo.

not a diffcuilt task to do, stopping at a light.

nor is it difficult to stop, get off your bike, walk over the line and then remount and continue your journey whilst smiling and waving at the police

once is quicker than the other, can you work out which?

Or you could save all that hassle and just stop.

true, but then I don't get to behave like a prat

Or demonstrate the futility of the law

Or you could save all that hassle and just stop.

But (In your head) you won't be like an American courier from the early 90s if you stop at red lights.

You won't look cool and superior to other cyclists if you stop at red lights...

You won't be able to control your ill-fitting brakless fixiefixie with colour coded parts and 2" handlebars so you'll crash if you try and stop at red lights...

See Hippy, you are just a relic, a roadie with no fashion sense.

nor is it difficult to stop, get off your bike, walk over the line and then remount and continue your journey whilst smiling and waving at the police

once is quicker than the other, can you work out which?

Hey, whoah there, take it easy, what's the rush? [/Parsley]

Just been stopped by one of those janky bastards on moorgate.

He was adamant i had come from a different direction then i had, and had made an illegal turn despite being obiously moving with traffic.
Fail.

Did you get a fine?

No he had to accept that i had turned correctly, carried on my merry way.

The lights at Blackfriars Road / the Cut have recently been fitted with these countdown thingys to tell the peds crossing how much time htey have left to cross.

I have noted that the lights then change four seconds after it gets to nil.

So every time I've been waiting at the lights since I've been counting loudly like a mad person '4, 3, 2 1' to get beck moving just as the lights change. It's sweet.

Sweet! I want to see them. They have them in Balham I think. I will check tonight.

Saw a funny incident yesterday en-route to HH.
Was about to jump the light and saw a cop car right at the front so did a hipster-fixie skid to stop just in time. A couple more cyclists pulled up next to me, all thinking the same thing no doubt. One amateur failed to notice the cops and went flying through them. We gave one another a knowing smile as the lights changed and the cops went fling off after them with their lights flashing.

It made me laugh :)

nor is it difficult to stop, get off your bike, walk over the line and then remount and continue your journey whilst smiling and waving at the police
once is quicker than the other, can you work out which?

Depends on how held up you get walking your bike along the footpath and how long the light cycle is.

It's a stupid argument. Walking is for bedwetters.

But (In your head) you won't be like an American courier from the early 90s if you stop at red lights.

You won't look cool and superior to other cyclists if you stop at red lights...

You won't be able to control your ill-fitting brakless fixiefixie with colour coded parts and 2" handlebars so you'll crash if you try and stop at red lights...

See Hippy, you are just a relic, a roadie with no fashion sense.

Spot on.

Except trackstanding at red lights is far cooler than walking around them or running them.. especially when I catch the rlj 'interval bait' down the road in 200m.