On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, chris harrison wrote:

d wrote:

I'm just waiting for the cyclists to get a bug up their asses about
this like motorists do with speed cameras. Soon, cycle cops will have
to wear 8-ft illuminated helmets, so cyclists can spot them at a
distance and not go through red lights, or quickly jump off the
pavement until the cop goes...

Good job this isn't uk.t - otherwise you'd have the speed freaks there up in
arms for equating speed cameras with red light running ...

Y'see, on uk.t at least, when a cyclist goes through a red light they
are evil and must be strung up (or at least taxed, registered, licensed
and otherwise punished for using a cheap, economical mode of transport,
irrespective of the legality of their behaviour),

.... and *then* strung up.

yet when a motorist trips a speed camera it's because the local plod is
raising revenue by imposing an unfairly low speed limit on a stretch of
road.

And, of course, they probably speeding in the first place because they
were accelerating out of danger!

tom

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