Banning Cyclists From Using Mobile Phones

[Kidorry 189]

Application Made On: 13/01/2021 15:21:36
Vehicle Tax Period: 12 months
Vehicle Tax Amount Paid: GBP 150.00

 

You can call it what you want but the government calls it tax.

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5 hours ago, slh73 said:

Vehicle excise duty, or VED. Nothing at all to do with roads. Road tax was abolished in 1937

You pass the Turing Test!

 

(Look it up!) 

[Bargepole23 337]

In other news....

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/west-midlands-police-bmw-walsall-wolverhampton-crown-court-the-crown-b2054077.html

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23 hours ago, MJ01 said:

Last chance - road tax does not exist, it is no more, it is an ex tax

 

Please tell us all that you've got it, please, please

The term 'Road tax' is perfectly acceptable as a colliqualism when referring to VED as is Road Fund Licence. 

Only pedantic fools argue that it's not called 'road tax' and mention 1937. It's the motoring equivalent of Godwin's. 

[Resident 1,185]

On 07/04/2022 at 19:25, cuttsie said:

Not using a mobile while driving a car is the most non existent law ever passed . you can see dozens of em every day looking down at phones on lap it sticks out a mile .

Cyclist will simply fall off the bike at some time if they are daft enough to try using the bike and phoning and its unlikely they will kill some one like the mobile using lorry and car drivers do .

 

3 hours ago, Bargepole23 said:

In other news....

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/west-midlands-police-bmw-walsall-wolverhampton-crown-court-the-crown-b2054077.html

Ah, whataboutery at it's finest.

Cyclists have been known to kill whilst riding without due care and attention (known as wanton and furious driving) just ask the widow of Peter McCombie or the widower of Kim Briggs...

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35 minutes ago, Resident said:

 

Ah, whataboutery at it's finest.

Cyclists have been known to kill whilst riding without due care and attention (known as wanton and furious driving) just ask the widow of Peter McCombie or the widower of Kim Briggs...

Neither of which involved a mobile phone.

[cuttsie 1,089]

13 hours ago, Resident said:

 

Ah, whataboutery at it's finest.

Cyclists have been known to kill whilst riding without due care and attention (known as wanton and furious driving) just ask the widow of Peter McCombie or the widower of Kim Briggs...

Is that a thousand to one or a million to one in comparison to those killed by car and lorry drivers .?????

[Cody's Granddad 52]

I cycle every day and have never come across a cyclist using a mobile phone.

I see it every day with motorists.

I am a motorist to and respect cyclists on the road and give them space.

You can always tell a motorist who cycles, regarding mobile phones it should be illegal to use it while cycling but why would you

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On 08/04/2022 at 22:59, Resident said:

Ah, whataboutery at it's finest.

Cyclists have been known to kill whilst riding without due care and attention (known as wanton and furious driving) just ask the widow of Peter McCombie or the widower of Kim Briggs...

it happens, but so rarely that we even remember the specific cases.

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since you posted this, 30 people in the UK have been killed by cars. and 300 seriously injured.

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let's focus our attention where it matters, eh?

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3 hours ago, ads36 said:

it happens, but so rarely that we even remember the specific cases.

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since you posted this, 30 people in the UK have been killed by cars. and 300 seriously injured.

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let's focus our attention where it matters, eh?

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain"

Got it. 

 

 

[Cody's Granddad 52]

On 08/04/2022 at 22:59, Resident said:

 

Ah, whataboutery at it's finest.

Cyclists have been known to kill whilst riding without due care and attention (known as wanton and furious driving) just ask the widow of Peter McCombie or the widower of Kim Briggs...

Kim Briggs was killed by an 18 year old being stupid on a mountain bike.

This is another argument as most cyclists are law abiding.

I do agree that the cycle paths combined with pedestrians are dangerous as in this case and you wouldn't get an argument from me.

Cycle paths should be road side only but maintained and cleaned as most of them are riddled with glass

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2 minutes ago, Cody's Granddad said:

Kim Briggs was killed by an 18 year old being stupid on a mountain bike.

This is another argument as most cyclists are law abiding.

I do agree that the cycle paths combined with pedestrians are dangerous as in this case and you wouldn't get an argument from me.

Cycle paths should be road side only but maintained and cleaned as most of them are riddled with glass

So you also agree that roads combined with cyclists is dangerous.  You have fast moving traffic held by slower, more vunerable traffic. 

The stick in the mud when cyclists argue about shared cycle/pedestrian infrastructure is that it slows them down, yet it's the same arguement that many drivers have about cyclists on the road. In that instance drivers are told to put up and learn to share by cycling groups. Maybe when it comes to shared infrastructure they should practice what they preach?