Police spotting (junction watch)

Almost caught on tooley street half an hour ago. just managed to stop in time for the lights...

You made it sound so hard!

scoble repped

you must realise for a fuxwit skidder it is hard to stop for lights, it might after their hipster cred points

All I meant was that I stopped before the line of the traffic lights so the police man couldn't say I was doing anything wrong as he had clearly seen me and began to make his approach over to me.

yeah yeah

you bin scobled!

damn

There's a jaywalking law?

Not in the UK that is.

I was instructing at a school today and one of the kids, about 10yrs old, asked why cars stop at red lights but cyclists go through.

How did you answer ?

I gave him Ed's number

You are right.
Dawdling with intent / deliberate dawdling / malicious dawdling ( incl. standing in the road )
There should be a law against it.

more peds dawdling on road = drivers being more cautious.

it's pretty much true, traffic fatalies has gone down when they removed the railing that seperate the road from the pavements thus - motorists go faster as there's no need to worry about peds on road, and get surprised when they see them.

random peds walking on road, motorists drove differently as they know that they might get peds on road and thus not get surprised by peds appearing on road.

fuck the jaywalking law, it's defintely not the right way to go to make our city safer.

"Let's all stand in the road" thread

I gave him Ed's number

As I was waiting at the lights waiting to turn into Downs Road this morning, two vehicles switched from left lane to right cut in front of me and blatantly rljed scattering peds as they went. Where were the cops?

You are right.
Dawdling with intent / deliberate dawdling / malicious dawdling ( incl. standing in the road )
There should be a law against it.

There is a law against it.

The highway code mentions ZPPPCRGD reg 19, which is:

"Pedestrians not to delay on crossings

1. No pedestrian shall remain on the carriageway within the limits of a crossing longer than is necessary for that pedestrian to pass over the crossing with reasonable despatch."
   
   

But as is dawning on people here the police are selective in who they go after. Try being a motorcyclist, or black.

I also think that the RTA forbids loitering near a zebra crossing.

PCSOs on The Cut/Bayliss Road again this morning. Got treated to the amusing sight of two of them leaping into action to chase down an RLJ'ing fixie skidder. Took them 30 seconds to get on the right side of the road, then until past the IMAX to even catch up with him, with one of the PCSOs squeezing/scooting up the inside of traffic (right in the blindspots) after taking the wrong lane. I'm cool with them doing their job, but it was like watching wacky races, I was more worried one of the PCSOs was gonna get run over then the RLJ'er.

Two traffic police hiding on New Bridge road today just before black friers bridge. Fair enough if they are doing RL'ers but how about they get rid of them and spend the money on making that road actually have a continuous cycle path.

At the moment from farringdon to blackfriers bridge the cycle path comes and goes about 5 times and when it goes you get bus's and taxis that like to force you into the curb :(

PCSOs on The Cut/Bayliss Road again this morning. Got treated to the amusing sight of two of them leaping into action to chase down an RLJ'ing fixie skidder. Took them 30 seconds to get on the right side of the road, then until past the IMAX to even catch up with him, with one of the PCSOs squeezing/scooting up the inside of traffic (right in the blindspots) after taking the wrong lane. I'm cool with them doing their job, but it was like watching wacky races, I was more worried one of the PCSOs was gonna get run over then the RLJ'er.

bit embarrassing for him they caught him up at all if they took ages to cross the road and he was on a rad fixie

Four of them in by the new bus lane on Theobalds road, if you get caught rlj here you deserve a fine for not looking ahead as they are not hard to spot!

Anyone else get stopped today?
I got stopped twice within about 300 metres - once for jumping a light that had just switched from amber to red at the junction of Clerkenwell Road and Theobalds Road and then a couple of seconds later at the next junction trying to ride a bus only lane (didn't realise) on the way to New Oxford st. Fairly nice coppers all things considered - whole malarky about 'if i catch you next time' etc etc and only one small piece of rhetoric about scraping me off the floor with a fork unless I wore full hi-vis... No fine either.

Saw a fella try and bomb away from the first lot - only to get stopped by some of their colleagues down the road - As I rode past he was getting handcuffed. Only a little disappointed I wasn't wearing my 'Thou - Smoke Pigs' shirt....

That bus lane one is nuts. It's barely 100m of road with a strict bus only policy, you can actually go around the whole of Holborn and get in front a bus faster than using it anyway.

Sorry Velocio! Didn't realise there was a seperate thread. Yes its a bit of a crazy stretch. Force of habit for using it I guess. Still - first time since moving here from Nottingham last year I've been stopped by police...

Well you've found their two most favourite haunts around Holborn, so now you know which junctions to slow down for in future ;)

.. trying to ride a bus only lane (didn't realise) on the way to New Oxford st.

i don't travel that road often (occasional detour to soho maybe), never realised it was bus only, fanks for the tip, you learn something new everyday

al

Yeah, there's a specific "No cycles" sign about 20m before the mini-stretch outside of Central St Martins.

They pull you over before you can jump Southampton Row normally, and just after the signs (which none of us ever pay attention to as you just assume the bus lane is fine) so that they can patronisingly point them out to you.

The reason it's bus only is that there are 2 bus stops a little further up, and there's no room to overtake the bus without going in to oncoming traffic. As they couldn't widen the lane and it barely fits a bus, they restricted the use of the lane instead.

I'm the first to criticise dumb rules, but the lack of space on this stretch and the fact that buses will stop make this one quite sensible. We'd be the first to point out how dumb it is if cyclists were to use it and there was an accident, because there really isn't the space if buses are in the lane too.