I'm quite happy to give them room...providing they are using a cycle lane IF there is one...and NOT riding 2, 3, 4 abreast if there isn't.

The weekend club lycra brigade should remember it ain't the Tour de France and the roads are NOT closed off for them.

...and I speak as a cyclist too.,!

2 abreast is deemed acceptable in the Highway Code para 66

That may be so..but it's not acceptable to ME and I don't do it.!

I'm quite happy to give them room...providing they are using a cycle lane IF there is one...and NOT riding 2, 3, 4 abreast if there isn't.

The weekend club lycra brigade should remember it ain't the Tour de France and the roads are NOT closed off for them.

...and I speak as a cyclist too.,!

2 abreast is deemed acceptable in the Highway Code para 66

And safer 2 abreast.

Cycles emit zero emissions, no need for VED.

Cyclists are extremely vulnerable to motorised vehicles being driven badly, too many have little regard for cyclsts safety. I applaud this action by our law enforcers.

As is often the case, there's wrong on both sides. The wrong in the case of the Corsa driver who turned left immediately in front of me as I rode home from work and nearly put me and my bike in orbit, and the wrong in the form of the cyclist wearing helmet, high viz gear and displaying enough lights to dazzle the mayor of Blackpool who narrowly missed being crushed under my bumper as he sailed merrily through several red lights on a local roundabout, because it was late at night and he thought he could.

What I find most surprising is that the police have the time and resources to mount such an operation after so many years of cuts.

Edited by argybargy on 11/07/2017 at 22:39

I think it's fabulous news. Crime is now at such a low level that the Police are now having to go out and encourage more of it to be committed.

No burglaries. No muggings. No rapes. No fraud. No violence absolutely nothing going on.

This frees up the "over worked and under resourced" police people to go and see if riding around in a provocative manner will encourage people to commit crimes.

In fact since they obviously now have too little to do perhaps the government can cut their funding by 75 percent. Should not be a problem.

Apparently in Essex they have soo much free time they are now going to be doing Fire Brigade work and the Fire Brigade will do some Police work too, what could possibly go wrong?

If cyclists had to pay road tax the money would be welcomed, certainly by the majority. There will always be bad road users. I don't have a problem with cyclists btw, I'm retired and therefore never in a rush.

If ALL cars had to pay "road tax", their money would be welcomed also. Their metal box wears out the road and takes more space than a car.

You're retired? Wow, I'd have never have guessed.

Many who cycle also drive, therefore pay VED. The whole point of giving cyclists room is that if you pass to close to a car someone might lose a mirror. Too close to a cyclist they might lose their life.

The idea of charging cyclists VED has so much wrong with it I am surprised it is ever raised.

Cycling creates zero emissions inclusing at the power station, and zero wear on roads; plus it has health benefits and often means one less car in use. Not to mention the fact that a lot of cars pay no VED.

Cyclists emit an awful lot of self satisfied smug. I'm surprised some posters haven't admitted that. A pity the national grid can't harvest it ...

as for cyles being emissions free, they do slow down motors and speed up after/during overtake which is as bad as humps in the road

Much like slow drivers holding other vehicles up.