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Saturday, August 05, 2006
Mayor Wants Bicycles to Have Number Plates
This is a funny little story. Ken Livingstone wants mandatory number plates on bikes so that he can make some traffic camera revenue from cyclists jumping lights or from those who hurl abuse at drivers. I have just checked my calendar to see it's not just rolled back to April 1st.
I hear a lot of silly traffic ideas due to my car blog but this one has got to be one of the dumbest. With all the crap we have to put up with from bad car drivers every time we go out on a bike, this idea is plain crazy. If someone threatens to end my life with their 2 tons of badly driven automobile, I think I'm a little entitled to call them anything I want. At traffic lights (not that there are many in rural Perthshire) in order to keep my feet in the pedals I will inch forward until I see the cross-traffic stopping then yes, I will jump that light before it has changed. Who's gonna stop me? Nice one Ken! Posted by bigcrags @
7:55 AM
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"I think I'm a little entitled to call them anything I want" "yes, I will jump that light before it has changed. Who's gonna stop me?" It's people like you with this attitude who give cyclists a bad image and lead to such crazy ideas. We're supposed to be the ones showing the car users how to behave responsibly, but if you keep behaving like that then it's just a neverending war of retaliations. What a moron. # posted by
 : 7:39 PM Great, anonymous commentor doesn't agree with me so calls me a moron. I suppose you agree that every bike should have a little bell on it too. If you ring that rather than shouting, Volvoman might not crush your under his rear wheel as he turns left whilst overtaking you. I'm not too sure how this plan would go down... We did a story about it on Numberplates.com recently, and it stirred up quite a bit of interest. I can't see it doing much good! It will not happen this was a foolish idear and ken could lose alot of suport if he tryed to put this ahead << Home
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