Police spotting (junction watch)

PoPo at the end of the CS3 by tower gateway forcing everyone to get off their bikes and walk 3 meters to either the other cycle path or the road, or pay a £30 fine.

Have city police not got anything better to do than enforce what is at its worst a very minor infringement, and should not be either.

I suspect that one person on a bike was being a dick and made it worst for the rest of us.

Rant over.
Ha! People told us about this last week and that popo had warned about ticketing everyone on Monday. We sent a few emails to the cycle task force police at TfL because the signs say you can ride everywhere at that junction. They came back to me yesterday to say they had had a word with the local SNT police and PCSOs, giving a lesson on cycling law.
As a result they backed off and said they would only ticket people behaving badly and breaking other laws - harassing peds etc. So it seems we forestalled a massive show down with hundreds of cyclists appealing against tickets, and all winning. That's what you pay us for.

It seems they have had a lot of complaints from peds. It makes you wonder how anti-cyclist enforcement often gets to the top of local police agenda. but that's another rant.