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  1. Today's London Lite;
    "Crackdown on selfish cyclists" headline which is the usual article about
    the commendable Share the Roads initiative (can't they find something more
    newsworthy like a new Prime Minister ?). But only on the second page does it
    go on to mention that mobile phone abusing drivers are also in the firing
    line.

    sorry to bring up another thread about this but didn't want to be accused of
    troll wrestling as they seem to be back in season.

    "all this talk about child abuse; when I was a chld we had to abuse
    ourself" - Hugh Cornwell

  2. MartinM said:

    Today's London Lite;
    "Crackdown on selfish cyclists" headline


    It's getting to be boring, isn't it?

    Anyway, the authorities will be out in force on Tooley Street near London
    Bridge today. Would be interested in any eye witness reports on cyclists
    being stopped, and how many drivers are being stopped for being in ASLs or
    using a mobile phone.

  3. MartinM said:

    Today's London Lite;
    "Crackdown on selfish cyclists" headline which is the usual article about
    the commendable Share the Roads initiative

    Our local paper had a full page colour ad for Share the Road exhorting
    cyclists to stop at red. I thought it was being biased until I turned
    the page and there was another one just as big asking drivers to give
    cyclists room.

  4. POHB said:
    MartinM said:

    Today's London Lite;
    "Crackdown on selfish cyclists" headline which is the usual article about
    the commendable Share the Roads initiative

    Our local paper had a full page colour ad for Share the Road exhorting
    cyclists to stop at red. I thought it was being biased until I turned
    the page and there was another one just as big asking drivers to give
    cyclists room.

    Is that the TfL one with the cyclist pictured in an ASL he/she cannot
    legally have got into on account of the first stop-line? I keep
    meaning to correspond with TfL, suggest they get someone that actually
    knows something about highway law to check over their propaganda
    before publishing it.

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    POHB said:
    MartinM said:

    Today's London Lite;
    "Crackdown on selfish cyclists" headline which is the usual article


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    the commendable Share the Roads initiative

    And no sooner had I spotted the article than I saw a thelondonpaper van
    driving along in themobilephoneabusingdriver mode; impressed though; they
    published my letter about it. And according to London Lite the initiative at
    5 secret points around town clobbered far more motorists than cyclists who
    in the main were shown to be "curteous and law abiding"

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