Police spotting (junction watch)

South side of tower bridge road and Tooley street stopping cyclists

Kingsland high st and crossway. Heavy pcso presence not sure what for but all carrying note/ticket books.

@babybat - I ride thru Tooley St / Q. Elizabeth St / Tower Bridge daily. Police were there BEFORE the incident and after. Is probably one of the standard checks, and I believe they were checking car drivers for ASL rather than bikes.

Also today saw dumper trucks being stopped by the police in some kind of organized check on Mansell Street.

The Tooley St/TBR junction is where the rider was hit last week, wasn't it? I'm starting to think they pick the locations based on the most recent collision sites, so they can tell people off for RLJ as it's 'for their own safety', when the chances are that the incidents have nothing to do with RLJ, and everything to do with HGV drivers. Really sticks in my craw.

yup, this was the reasoning given for a police presence at Angel's City Road / Goswell Road last time we chatted (!);

Holborn / Theobalds road Bus Lane bit (the infamous).

PCSO (or maybe a regular Police) telling people off this morning for going in the bus lane, scare tactics - telling them lots of people had been injured along that road. Neglecting to mention someone died at the Holborn Junction 6 weeks ago. Way to go, pal.

4 bike-mounted popo with whistles pulling over RLJ-ing cyclists to give them FPNs at the junction between Waterloo Rd and The Cut.
Good on them. Too many people jump onto the pavement there and weave between peds.

Bunch of cops and a van on Shoreditch High Street just south of the Old St/Hackney Road junction pulling over cyclists. Presumably the ones who thought it was a good idea to jump the red at that junction.

Police stopping cyclists at the junction of Anwell St and Inglebert St in Clerkenwell, assume it's those going on the pavement around the waterworks without getting off.

Lad at work got fined £50 for riding a bobike on the pavement today... not sure where it just really amused me

£50? I thought the biggest fixed penalty you could get was £30.

Cycling on footways (a path at the side of a carriageway) is prohibited by Section 72 of the Highway Act 1835, amended by Section 85(1) of the Local Government Act 1888. This is punishable by a fixed penalty notice of £30 under Section 51 and Schedule 3 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.

http://www.bikehub.co.uk/featured-articles/cycling-and-the-law/

£50? I thought the biggest fixed penalty you could get was £30.

http://www.bikehub.co.uk/featured-articles/cycling-and-the-law/

True they shouldn't fine anymore than £30 , them mis writing the fine is pretty good premise to get out of it

£30 non-endorseable FPN becomes £50

Pow, right in the wallet

I'd missed that they increased the fines. Far rather they increased the number of traffic cops instead (or indeed also)

This sucks

4 bike-mounted popo with whistles pulling over RLJ-ing cyclists to give them FPNs at the junction between Waterloo Rd and The Cut.
Good on them. Too many people jump onto the pavement there and weave between peds.

That junction takes too f*cking long to get through if you miss the green.
as for Pedestrians there are too many of them Jaywalking along the stretch between the Old Vic and Waterloo East.

there is no such thing as jaywalking in london

In the next frame JayZee lays flat on the tarmac after having tripped over his own shoelaces.

Those lights change mega slowly, but you can normally time it right to bomb through before they turn because the roads are so straight leading to it.

Whole bunch of police were watching for cyclists jumping red lights by Putney Bridge tube a few weeks back. Didn't seem to be very well organised - lights went green and a bunch of around 10 cyclists went round the corner. The guy posted on the corner got a message over the radio (probably something useful like 'stop the guy in the yellow jacket') and jumped into the road shouting 'stop'! No-one knew who he was trying to stop so just kept going and he had to jump out the way.

got stopped in RP earlier "for speeding" not sure if speed traps or cunt in uniform but look out for them

Did you get a fine?

Did you get a fine?

Nah I'm 16 and look it so they gave me the " we could fine you ect ect do you want us to tell your college" rant and let me off , to be fair I was probably seriously pushing it over 30 but still second time it's happened to me recently in RP

They like to position themselves just before the zoo ( this is particualy sneaky when they get obscured by the setting sun ) or just at the lights after the embassy. If you don't jump either set of lights you should be ok... However if this is as you were riding at speed then you're definitely unlucky getting pulled over twice!