In London, the Met Police fined 4,000 cyclists for failing to stop at lights in 2023, and the City of London Police issued over 900 fines in the first 9 months of their dedicated cycling unit.
Given they fined over 100 cyclists a month and the City of London is 1 square mile that’s essentially deserted two days of the week, it’s clear there was some issue.
Whats more, in many cases the cyclists were given the choice of a ten minute presentation on road safety, or the fine, and most chose the fine!
I dont live in London, so I can’t speak to the cycling infrastructure there. Proper cycling lanes could probably reduce whatever infractions are occuring. But I dont know the fines either, just that according to two posters there are indeed cycling police and they give out fines to cyclists.
100 cyclists a month doesn’t sound like a lot when there are thousands commuting through every day. Unless you give comparable numbers for both car commuters and cycling commuters and the number of fines this is saying nothing. For exampe, this week police in the netherlands were doing a traffic stop for cars and handed out 177 fines for 130 cars stopped because of multiple infractions per car, and this was one location one day.
A 2024 24-hr census gave 265,700 private cars, 139,400 cyclists, 70,000 commercial vehicles.
7am-7pm, cycles were the bigger group with 39% vs private cars at 22%. Most commuters to the City walk in from railway stations, with cyclists the next largest group. Hence the dedicated cycle unit.
In London, the Met Police fined 4,000 cyclists for failing to stop at lights in 2023, and the City of London Police issued over 900 fines in the first 9 months of their dedicated cycling unit.
So pigs made a unit specifically to hunt cyclists and you’re posting their numbers? This isn’t the flex you think it is.
stop breaking the law and the hunt will be pointless. “pigs” hate this one simple trick 😂
Swallow the boot harder. No wonder ya’ll fall for car lobby propaganda lmao
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I said they dont go out into intersections with no signal. No where did I say they break less. You can go ahead and try to quote that.
the comic is about ignoring red light and yes, they do that.
In my experience 90% dont.
cool. so that means that 10% do. i am glad we finally got there. now imagine how it would look like of 10% of cars ignored the traffic lights 😂
Given they fined over 100 cyclists a month and the City of London is 1 square mile that’s essentially deserted two days of the week, it’s clear there was some issue.
Whats more, in many cases the cyclists were given the choice of a ten minute presentation on road safety, or the fine, and most chose the fine!
I dont live in London, so I can’t speak to the cycling infrastructure there. Proper cycling lanes could probably reduce whatever infractions are occuring. But I dont know the fines either, just that according to two posters there are indeed cycling police and they give out fines to cyclists.
100 cyclists a month doesn’t sound like a lot when there are thousands commuting through every day. Unless you give comparable numbers for both car commuters and cycling commuters and the number of fines this is saying nothing. For exampe, this week police in the netherlands were doing a traffic stop for cars and handed out 177 fines for 130 cars stopped because of multiple infractions per car, and this was one location one day.
A 2024 24-hr census gave 265,700 private cars, 139,400 cyclists, 70,000 commercial vehicles.
7am-7pm, cycles were the bigger group with 39% vs private cars at 22%. Most commuters to the City walk in from railway stations, with cyclists the next largest group. Hence the dedicated cycle unit.
So 0.002% of cyclists get a fine every day even though there is a dedicated unit watching them. That sounds like they are behaving quite well.
Those were only the ones they were able to catch. It happens a lot more than that.
Anyway, the statement they were debunking was that it never happened.