Car drivers caught red handed

Jumping red lights is becoming a frighteningly common occurrence - with
the latest figures showing that traffic cameras in London are catching
almost 10,000 drivers every month.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3723726.stm

On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 17:25:05 UTC+1, Bod wrote:
Jumping red lights is becoming a frighteningly common occurrence - with
the latest figures showing that traffic cameras in London are catching
almost 10,000 drivers every month.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3723726.stm

We are waiting for the money to flood here in which KHCC has promised to go on road repairs.

The nice council has given these lawbreakers a little more time before the hammer comes down though. Shame, as that £36000 a day would do a lot of good.

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-...ail/story.html

On 12/08/2015 17:25, Bod wrote:
Jumping red lights is becoming a frighteningly common occurrence - with
the latest figures showing that traffic cameras in London are catching
almost 10,000 drivers every month.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3723726.stm

Drivers caught doing so must be made to write out one thousand times:

"I must not behave like a scofflaw chav cyclist
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On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 17:25:05 UTC+1, Bod wrote:
Jumping red lights is becoming a frighteningly common occurrence - with
the latest figures showing that traffic cameras in London are catching
almost 10,000 drivers every month.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3723726.stm

Contrast that mass law breaking with only ONE cyclist getting fined in a YEAR.

http://road.cc/content/news/160517-o...-light-jumping

On 12/08/2015 19:25, Alycidon wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 17:25:05 UTC+1, Bod wrote:
Jumping red lights is becoming a frighteningly common occurrence - with
the latest figures showing that traffic cameras in London are catching
almost 10,000 drivers every month.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3723726.stm

Contrast that mass law breaking with only ONE cyclist getting fined in a YEAR.

http://road.cc/content/news/160517-o...-light-jumping


More enforcement is clearly required.

On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:25:03 +0100, Bod wrote:

Jumping red lights is becoming a frighteningly common occurrence - with
the latest figures showing that traffic cameras in London are catching
almost 10,000 drivers every month.

"Last Updated: Monday, 11 October, 2004", couldn't you find anything
less than 11 years old?

Around 24million trips are made in, to or from London each day. About
40% of those are by motor vehicle so roughly 9million or about
270million journeys per month.

2% are made by pushbike and at some junctions according to TFL 40% of
cyclist ignore red lights, let's take 10% as a reasonable low average.
So 500,000 pushbike journeys per day gives 50,000 red lights
infractions by cyclists per day. In an average month cyclists, who
make up 2% of the traffic jump 15 times as many red lights as motor
vehicles which make up 40% of the traffic.

On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 22:39:36 UTC+1, Peter Parry wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:25:03 +0100, Bod wrote:

Jumping red lights is becoming a frighteningly common occurrence - with
the latest figures showing that traffic cameras in London are catching
almost 10,000 drivers every month.

"Last Updated: Monday, 11 October, 2004", couldn't you find anything
less than 11 years old?

Around 24million trips are made in, to or from London each day. About
40% of those are by motor vehicle so roughly 9million or about
270million journeys per month.

2% are made by pushbike and at some junctions according to TFL 40% of
cyclist ignore red lights, let's take 10% as a reasonable low average.
So 500,000 pushbike journeys per day gives 50,000 red lights
infractions by cyclists per day. In an average month cyclists, who
make up 2% of the traffic jump 15 times as many red lights as motor
vehicles which make up 40% of the traffic.

Yep sure.

http://road.cc/content/news/160517-o...-light-jumping

That is the reality, not back of a fag packet calculations.

On 12/08/2015 22:44, Alycidon wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 22:39:36 UTC+1, Peter Parry wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:25:03 +0100, Bod wrote:

Jumping red lights is becoming a frighteningly common occurrence - with
the latest figures showing that traffic cameras in London are catching
almost 10,000 drivers every month.

"Last Updated: Monday, 11 October, 2004", couldn't you find anything
less than 11 years old?

Around 24million trips are made in, to or from London each day. About
40% of those are by motor vehicle so roughly 9million or about
270million journeys per month.

2% are made by pushbike and at some junctions according to TFL 40% of
cyclist ignore red lights, let's take 10% as a reasonable low average.
So 500,000 pushbike journeys per day gives 50,000 red lights
infractions by cyclists per day. In an average month cyclists, who
make up 2% of the traffic jump 15 times as many red lights as motor
vehicles which make up 40% of the traffic.

Yep sure.

http://road.cc/content/news/160517-o...-light-jumping

That is the reality, not back of a fag packet calculations.

I'd forgotten how incredibly stupid you really are.

The figures are from TFL, not the back of a fag packet. Your You Tube
clip shows a disgraceful lack of enforcement. It proves nothing, other
than your incredible idiocy.

On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:44:42 -0700 (PDT), Alycidon
wrote:

That is the reality, not back of a fag packet calculations.

Well reality caused me to have to drive through the centre of London
today, something I normally avoid. I saw the narrow band of abandoned
tatty blue paint in the gutter which proclaimed itself to be "Cycling
Superhighway No 7"

During the journey I saw at least several hundred vehicles and perhaps
two dozen pushbike riders. Probably the torrential rain had something
to do with it. However, what I did observe was the number of motor
vehicles jumping red lights which was one (the light changed to red as
they passed through). On the other hand, despite their vastly smaller
numbers, the number of cyclists who rode through red lights was about
a dozen. Most went through long after the light turned red and weaved
through crossing traffic often making the cheerful cyclist greeting of
a raised finger when traffic with the right of way failed to give way
to them.. One amazingly was a young woman towing a trailer with a
child in it who breezed through a red light crossing Portman Street
several seconds after it had gone red.

I realise that cycling and honesty are words that do not normally sit
well together, the doping antics of many riders from club to
international level is ample proof of that. However, to try to
assert, in the face of all evidence, that a higher proportion of push
bike riders obey red lights compared with motor vehicle drivers is
rather stretching credulity to Lance Armstrong levels.

On Thursday, 13 August 2015 22:41:00 UTC+1, Peter Parry wrote:

I realise that cycling and honesty are words that do not normally sit
well together, the doping antics of many riders from club to
international level is ample proof of that.

That is utter cobblers. So the recent exposé of mass drug abuse amongst athletes means that a jogger in Hyde Park is tarred with the same brush?

You might as well state that Schumacher's "crash" into Damon Hill was indicative of the culture of the current craze for "cash for crash" fiddles.

Total garbage and you know it.