Plans afoot to expand council "policing" of roads

[Rogerborg]

Including abuse of pedal cycle advanced stop lines in case you're wondering where the properbike angle is. Anyone know if the London spycams face the front or rear of vehicles?

[J4mes]

In Peterboghorror we have a smart car driving around with CCTV/ANPR on it which catches motorists out for parking illegally and issues fines, think it took £25K in 3 months which is more than the other 8 traffic wardens put together.

No doubt this new legislation will widen what this wheeled bastard can dish out charges for, and the council will invest in a good few more. Not sure if they are cheaper than putting up a fixed installation on a junction, but obviously it can cover multiple junctions/ areas in the day and perhaps cover areas when they are known to be a problem. Perhaps covering the school gates at 8am and 3pm, but roaming the city looking for yellow box/ cycle box infringements in the day time. And permit-parking infringement at night.

Then hopefully someone will set fire to it.

I can imagine councils absolutely going to town with this if it comes in.

[Rogerborg]

I'll just leave this here..

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[Andy_Pagin]

Im actually in favour of this, blatantly ignoring traffic signals and overstepping white lines has reached epidemic proportions in London and poses a real danger to bikers, I see an average of three or four red light jumps on every commute.
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[Joncrete Cungle]

I doubt such Orwellian sheet will reach the shires. The council / camera safety partnership round here can't be bothered to bring in to operation all the dummy red light cameras.

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[U_W v2.0]

hmm easy solution. 2 cameras facing the junction, those lights with the sensors on them, tie the sensors in so when a car goes through a red light the cameras take a picture of said car getting its plate and fine them.

apply the same thing to yellow boxes
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[Rogerborg]

The UK isn't some commie vassal state like "North Belgium" though.

Why make a distinction for pedalists? If they can ignore traffic signals, why not us? Why not buses? Or trucks? Or cars? Can't we all make our own decisions?
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[MarJay]

But there is an EU law that they are trying to bring in here in the UK that says if a cyclist is involved in an accident with a larger vehicle, it is always the larger vehicle's fault, disregarding all behaviour by the cyclist.

This, combined with cyclists running red lights adds up to some pretty nasty consequences.
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