Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

Cue the van stopping, two thick-set guys jumping out, flashing me some form of ID before informing me that I've made a big mistake

Next time flash your supermarket points card at them and say in a Bond villain voice; "No...it is YOU that has made the mistake" then laugh maniacally.

I once found a cab driver's blog where the most recent post was a long lament about how he'd been ticketed for speeding "again" and how he was struggling to make ends meet because he kept having to pay all these fines for speeding.

Now the solution to this "problem" seemed pretty fantastically fucking obvious to me but it was clear that he thought it completely unfair and that the concept of not speeding was completely alien to him.

I love it when people refer to speeding tickets and fines as a 'stealth tax'. Especially when it's Jeremy Clarkson doing the moaning. If only more taxes were taken disproportionately from those stupid enough to break the law and not realise what they're doing wrong.

dvla anpr van maybe? scroll down about 3/4 of the linked page

http://www.speedcam.co.uk/van3.htm

yea those Talivan..
... complete terrorists targeting poor innocents with their minigatguns

Daily Hell, no linky, no ad revenue:

It is illegal to drive while using a hand-held mobile phone. Hands-free kits using an earpiece cost as little as £7.

£7 for an elastic band? Tell him he's dreamin'

At least he looks good.

I'd prefer the Talivan to be easily seen by other for one reason - people will slow down when they see such device, hiding it just won't get them to slow down.

£7 for an elastic band? Tell him he's dreamin'

The Castle!

^ Glad someone realised!^

There's a war against the motorist

Where do I sign up?

I'd prefer the Talivan to be easily seen by other for one reason - people will slow down when they see such device, hiding it just won't get them to slow down.

Or perhaps if they don't see it they'll slow down coz they keep getting fixed penalty fines in the post. Works with London bus lanes .

Snippets from the cabby that I had a "conversation" with this morning, after he brushed past me to get to the red light 20 yards up the road.

"You were taking up the road that we're supposed to be sharing"

"You should get out of the way because I'm faster than you"

"We're meant to share the roads, so you should keep out of my way"

"I'm trying to be reasonable here"

"Please, don't, no more, I have a family, no please, stop, the pain..."

Hah. I got beeped at multiple times whilst cruising up to one of the [incredibly long] red lights on Bishopsgate this morning. Pointed at the light then totally ignored him.

I had an impatient woman roll her car to within millimeters of my rear wheel on my way in today. She only stopped when I shouted at her about how close to my wheel she had got, and would totally have gone into the back of me.

My crime?

To wait behind a bus that was stopped in a queue of traffic, rather than going round the outside of it (into an island in the middle of a zebra crossing) or down the inside of it, where past the zebra crossing it goes straight into a bus lane.

She was really cross. :-(

^^ my biggest pet hate when on the road in /on any vehicle...... people who 'have' to get around you, just to turn off.
And those who pull out, then go slow/drift along because its ok, they're just turning off again in 50yards.

ARHGHGHGHGH

"Please, don't, no more, I *want to *have a family, no please, stop, the pain..."

there, that's better

Am I imagining it or was there a website around a while ago where you could report mopeds/scooters for using the ASL (and upload a picture)? Could someone provide the link please?

I've already reported them for the dangerous riding they were doing in the build-up to the lights but I have the feeling the police will just ignore it...

^ never heard of this and would like to know too.

mopeds and scooters i can just about deal with, it's the arrogant pricks who defiantly put their cars, often expensive and german, over the line and well into the asl.

on days when i feel both pedantic and confrontational i give a little knock on their window and explain how shit works. or i sit right in front of their bumper and hold them up when the lights change.
this makes me a bit of a cunt.
but i don't do it every day.

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Adanced stop lines. Some signal-controlled junctions have advanced stop lines to allow cycles to be positioned ahead of other traffic. Motorists, including motorcyclists, [B]MUST stop at the first white line reached if the lights are amber or red and should avoid blocking the way or encroaching on the marked area at other times, e.g. if the junction ahead is blocked. If your vehicle has proceeded over the first white line at the time that the signal goes red, you MUST stop at the second white line, even if your vehicle is in the marked area. Allow cyclists time and space to move off when the green signal shows.[/B]

Can you explain how the ASL would really improve your life/ journey time especially in the context of a faster moving vehicles?
How would you rate the design and use of ASLs in terms of the bottle necks they cause when cyclists stream into them irrespective:
(i) of whether they're full or not?
(ii) of direction they they intend on going i.e entering from the right only to turn left?

Does getting straight to the front sound logical given the sheer numbers of cyclists in London when someone else got there before you?

Also if one is white and "jelly".

Can you explain how the ASL would really improve your life/ journey time especially in the context of a faster moving vehicles?
How would you rate the design and use of ASLs in terms of the bottle necks they cause when cyclists stream into them irrespective:
(i) of whether they're full or not?
(ii) of direction they they intend on going i.e entering from the right only to turn left?

Does getting straight to the front sound logical given the sheer numbers of cyclists in London when someone else got there before you?

There's an incredibly indepth report on ASL usage in London here:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/Behaviour-at-cycle-advanced-stop-lines.pdf

The final recommendations make interesting reading.

@Multigrooves was that aimed at me or ASL fans in general?

I was asking about them because the guy was being dangerous & acting like a prick all the way up Clapham High Street (which I've reported) but the only evidence I have of him doing something wrong is the picture I took of him to help me remember his registration plate (in which he's parked in a ASL).

@Multigrooves was that aimed at me or ASL fans in general?

I was asking about them because the guy was being dangerous & acting like a prick all the way up Clapham High Street (which I've reported) but the only evidence I have of him doing something wrong is the picture I took of him to help me remember his registration plate (in which he's parked in a ASL).

It was aimed both at you and anyone else reading. I'm not having a go at you but I'd question people getting vexated about finding vehicles in them (as I briefly did a long while back). Looking back at the emotion that went through me when finding vehicles there; it's pointless allowing that to mess with your chi for the rest of your ride*. I wish you the best of luck and thank you for chasing upthe bad driver in question though.

• I see this may not apply to you however.
  

Am I imagining it or was there a website around a while ago where you could report mopeds/scooters for using the ASL (and upload a picture)? Could someone provide the link please?

There's My Bike Lane: http://london.mybikelane.com/

That bike lane is mine, so keep your dirty hands off it.

Christ, but that's a self-righteous crywank of a site.

This, also they do not appear to understand how to rotate photos.