[Politics] "We're cracking down on dangerous cycling".

[vegster]

Was mentioned on Radio Sussex that all new bicycles are meant to be sold with a bell already fitted?

So, if an owner removes the bell maybe they should be subject to a Bell-End Tax?

 

[Official Old Man]

With the evenings getting darker now why don't the police sit at a junction along Lewes Road, somewhere between Elm Grove and Falmer, and fine every cyclist who 1/ has no lights and 2/ jumps a red light. They could make a fortune.

 

[Stat Brother]

With the evenings getting darker now why don't the police sit at a junction along Lewes Road, somewhere between Elm Grove and Falmer, and fine every cyclist who 1/ has no lights and 2/ jumps a red light. They could make a fortune.

and motorists on the phone as well as pedestrians head down jay walking straight into the road.

 

[Bold Seagull]

With the evenings getting darker now why don't the police sit at a junction along Lewes Road, somewhere between Elm Grove and Falmer, and fine every cyclist who 1/ has no lights and 2/ jumps a red light. They could make a fortune.

You could sit at the junction of Old Shoreham Road and Boundary Road and fine every driver that 1/ is on the phone 2/ jumping the lights; actually make a fortune AND catch someone who is more likely to kill someone else...

 

[zefarelly]

"We're cracking down on dangerous cycling".

It would be interesting to see how many cyclists have a bike/car license . . . or even a cycling proficiency test.

Fines and penalties for utter twattery on the roads should be higher and harder. . . . especially given how cocooned most people seem to be, either in cars or riding bikes/walking across the road, blinkered with headphones on oblivious to the world around them, a