Running red light - legal advice

We have raised the issue of police discretion and proportionality at the Cycle Safety Working Group meetings with the police, particularly to do with the refusal of most police to enforce the same law against motorists who drive into ASL bike boxes. It is also extremely rare for any police to prosecute a motorist for being "just over the line".

A spokesperson told me that in the past three years City Police issued 12 fixed penalties to motorists for entering ASZs unlawfully.

Yet in the same period it handed out just over 6,000 fixed penalties to cyclists for jumping red lights.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2011/aug/24/safety-red-lights-cyclists

Anecdotal evidence is that johnny law don't like issuing TS10s for motorists who ignore ASLs as it's "disproportionate".