When are cyclists going to be dealt with properly?

Made I laugh when a cyclist went past a woman on the pavement in South street, she didn't bat an eylid when she pushed him off his bike

He looked well pee'd off but didn't say anything as he knew he shouldn't have been riding on the pavement.

 

@fat controller what are those wavy lines on the pavement?

@Scrungee there's lots running around without helmets too..

 

The zig zag lines are either side of pedestrian crossings, you'm not allowed to park on them or overtake anything, even a bike.

Don't think helmets are compulsory over here for bikes

 

That would be a royal pita!

 

It's to stop you plowing into folk while they're crossing and leaving entrails all over the black and white stripes

 

Our pedestrian crossings have lights that flash when a the walker pushes a button. Then motorists are obliged to not stop or pass vehicles either direction. Crossing in between intersections other than these crossings is considered jay walking. Course no one enforces the law outside of downtown Toronto.

 

How can you prosecute cyclists???
Unless you actually catch them in the act of an offence there is no way of tracking them down.

One thing I do think that needs to be sorted is that all cyclist should have to have adequate insurance to cover any mayhem they might cause, and any cyclist without insurance should have their bike seized and crushed.
Lets face it, you really need insurance these days to take the dog for a walk, (I know it's not compulsory), so why can someone go out on the roads and basically flaunt every law of the road and get away with it.
If the insurers then stated that if riding on the pavement they were uninsured, it would totally outlaw that kind of thing.

 

We have funny names for crossings, I think what you are referring to Lori is what we call a pelican crossing, with lights and a button to push.
Zebra crossings are when there are no traffic lights or button, it's just up to the drivers to give way to pedestrians.
I think there are other silly names we have for different types of crossing but I cant think of them at the moment.

 

I know, after reporting a few things here it took 2 years to see change even then i think the police got fed up we me phoning most days for 2 years to report what's going on and also there's been a few other things happening in another village not far away, again nowt being done, then someone wrote a bleeding good letter to the main men/women (5 people all had a copy letters saying about the law so that no one could said they didn't know ) in high places then there was a big crack down
So it does pay to report even if you get pee-d off with doing it

 

But when the Police actually do something about riding on the pavement it can cause an outcry!

Lincolnshire police threaten to confiscate girl's bike on way to school | Daily Mail Online

 

This is why people hold the coppers in such contempt.

No common sense. No understanding of people. Most coppers are just school bullies that never grew out of it.

I bet the same copper probably turned a blind eye to all of the dangerous and illegal parking that is to be found in the vicinity of any school at that time of day.

There's a difference between a kid riding slowly under supervision and an arrogant bottom belting along.

 

We don't have pavements and not a PC to police them if we did it would be nice to have a PC to catch the bad drivers on they're moblies o well i'll have to start reporting again

 

I don't view them with contempt.
How many do you actually *know*?
I know a few and none of them fit your description.