Police spotting (junction watch)

All over bow and mile end like a nasty rash this morning, then another outbreak further up near Aldgate. Irritating.

^^ shit so they can do RLJs as well

Not that I do it often, but if caught in the moment sounds like the best thing is to bugger off sharpish rather than pay up fiddy dorrah

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/7687?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SE1newstwitter+%28SE1+news+for+Twitter%29

Southwark Council has asked the Metropolitan Police and TfL to review its enforcement action against cyclists using the westbound cycle lane parallel with New Kent Road.

Four of us shouted at by jumped up PCSO at E&C this afternoon for not being in the ASL box. The problem was a police van had stopped across it as they were in the right hand lane but wanted to go left. So we could go back, PCSO just couldn't see this error.

Stopped and had a word with the PCSO at angel about the scooters that go beyond the ASL to do a right from city road onto upper street, sit in front of cyclists and lights and thus don't know when they actually have a green.
He agreed what they'd done was illegal but there was only him spotting people and two regulars further up the road stopping people. Not sure I understand his logic.

I will say that I've only ever seen the cops there talking to drivers, never cyclists.

He agreed what they'd done was illegal but there was only him spotting people and two regulars further up the road stopping people. Not sure I understand his logic.

I will say that I've only ever seen the cops there talking to drivers, never cyclists.

He means the PCSO doesn't speak to them but tells the regular plod up the road which ones to pull over to have a word with (that way they get spoken to by real plod rather than PCSO).

Easier to do that with cars than scooters (or bikes) as the PCSOs can radio up the reg no of cars to the regular plod so they know which to point to and pull over. The regular plod can't see reg nos of oncoming scooters (or cycles obv.) and descriptions aren't reliable.

"That thing that sounds like an amplified hair dryer being ridden by a prick."

Easy to describe.

This has been shared/discussed on LCC group forums today and Jenny Jones seems to have taking up the matter:

Kristian Gregory writes:

"I've just been fined £50 for exiting the cycle lane 10m before reaching the
pedestrian crossing. Absolutely furious. Have it on camera and will upload
later but just wanted to let people know operation Safeway is back and it's
worse than last time...."

And to Jenny...

"Thank you for offering to look into this case. This occurred during the
morning rush hour of Thursday 3rd July and was recorded on my helmet
camera, the video footage (up until I give out my personal details) has
been uploaded here http://youtu.be/HraAA4W2AJc
. I was usingthe shared
pavement/cycle path alongside new Kent Road, known as the elephant and
castle bypass, immediately adjacent to the Heygate estate.

The path is very narrow compared to the rest of the pavement, is poorly
surfaced compared to the pavement and has a telephone box in the middle
of it. Despite this, I stuck to it for most of its length, exiting it
just before the light controlled crossing. As shown in the picture
below, this area is sign posted as shared use for cycling and walking."

Ridiculous jobs-worth policing.

Has anyone checked the TRO for that path?

Don't know. I think the point is that, as he asks on Twitter...

@KristianCyc
If you were going to crack down on pavement cycling, would you stand next to this sign to do it? pic.twitter.com/45gmBzvVS4

I have to say, I have never used the 'shared use' pathways around the E&C as I think they are such a flawed and ambiguous concept.

I'm pissed off about the resources used for dealing with these 'offenses' when there are so many actual crimes/injustices not adequately dealt with.

There's no explaining jobsworth PCSOs.

There was a PCSO paired with the very good police officer who came to the scene of my crash the other day.

Absolutely terrible he was - slow, clueless, redundant, lazy and showed no initiative whatsoever. Officer was prompting his every move. Waste of everyone's time and instilled zero confidence in anyone there.

But hey, as long as he enjoys wearing his fancy outfit though that's fine, right?

^ Fuck, I'm sounding so bitter :/

Problem is. They can argue that she came off the cycle path and onto the pavement where she should have walked over to gain access to the road.

It's a really crap design that's open to interpretation, I hope you'll be able to fight this ruling and write to Boris about this "unfinished" stretch of cycle path.

And tell Boris to get cycle training,fucker clipped my bar while undertaking.

PCSOs would be useful if they were given a bag of tar and a shovel and spent their day filling up the potholes.

At least they speedily filled the ones on the TdeF route in time :)

^And I doubt those riders pay road tax.

"That thing that sounds like an amplified hair dryer being ridden by a prick."

Easy to describe.

There are 10 that sound like that, unless you were talking about Cadel.

One for hippy:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/05/councils-urge-investment-1bn-a-year-fuel-duty-fix-roads

There are 10 that sound like that, unless you were talking about Cadel.

But how many are waiting to turn right at that exact time?

Do we still use this?

Colleague got caught RLJ'ing very slowly through a junction in Waterloo this morning. Of course I am not condoning this illegal and irresponsible behaviour and sorry to repeat what must've been said on here a million times but £50 is a hell of a fine, isn't it?
You could park in a bus stop and piss all over an ambulance for that.

You'd probably get less for mugging someone too

i got a 30 quid fine for having a broken break light. RLJing is a cunts game but having a broken brake light makes me an actually-dangerous cunt.

Did you know it was broken? If not, that's frustrating and I'm sure you'd have rather spent the £30 on a new light/bulb.

If you did know it was broken.. well then, aren't you just the actually-dangerous cunt.

i did not. i was still happy to pay the fine mind you. i now check the fuckers regularly.

Sadly, neither does half the driver in London driving with a broken brake lights.