Of the 151 cyclists we saw when the lights were red, only 36 stopped for the green #LBC #uk #uknews #ukpolitics #cycling #Shorts #london

Excuse me, sir. Do you know you’re breaking the law? Raw breaker. We’re here this morning witnessing law breaking on a mass scale. Thousands of cyclists go through this set of traffic lights outside Black Fry Station every day, but a shocking number are running the red. We’ve got a peppy line biker coming up to the red lights. What is she going to do? She’s going to very sensibly obey the law. Oh no. After a little bit of thought, she’s gone through the red light. Law reabiding citizens right here. Congrats, guys. You’re not breaking the law. Sir, it’s a red. Do you know you’re breaking the law? Rule breaker. Rule breaker. Highspeed rule breaker. So, the results are in. In the time that we’ve been here, we’ve seen over a hundred cyclists running the

33 Comments

  1. This kind of lazy journalism puts lights at risk. Adding to the them and us mentality. Get a radar gun and stand on a motorway bridge and you will find just as many law breakers but what does it prove?

  2. You need to come to Cambridge, they go through red light, wrong way up one way streets, no lights at night, all in black, don't let me start about electric scooters and bikes, especially delivery persons.

  3. In 2024, 230 pedestrians were killed by car drivers. One pedestrian was killed by a cyclist. (UK Govt stats). So the massive risk to pedestrians is from being hit by 2 tons of car, not a few kilos of cycle. That doesn't excuse red light jumping, but gives some context as to why our hard pressed police prioritise speeding and dangerous driving more than cycles.

  4. All that prattle and yet nobody was killed by bikes in London last year. Car driving through red lights on the other hand would result in hundreds of road deaths. I would be grateful that there are people who are willing to sweat a little to buy your children a better environmental future. Peal clutching and whining achieves nothing and making the police waste their time enforcing it would cost a fortune and remove them from the few real crimes they bother to even investigate.

  5. My new favourite from many cyclists nowadays is the ones that ride through roadworks (whether work men arw there or not) and try to merge into the moving traffic and getting verbal when vehicles won't move out the way to let them filter.

  6. Unimaginative click bait journalism. I certainly wouldn't not condone skipping red lights. But maybe a more insightful piece on why this happens so much at this junction in Blackfriars would serve the public better? Maybe even a comparison to Holland where this is actually a solved problem.

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