It's the misuse that will do for these. Dangerous to rider and anyone at large and plain stupid.The devices have to be used with extra care and with diligence.You cannot even look over your shoulder and check without deviating from a safe line. Nor can you signal clearly.That can be done easily on a Bicycle if a proficient rider.When you see adults who clearly must know better, riding with no lights, masked up in dark wearing dark non reflective clothing, and carrying children then what can one say?It's not the device it's the idiots using them.Ultimately it's people and attitude that spoil things, and it blights this country.The precedent was set in the early days of mass public transport. Railways had to introduce very strict rules of carriage and a continuing all embracing and evolving focus on safety first.Yet still the biggest problem is human behaviour.The Motor Vehicle when it came to the masses (and liberated the working classes) was the same.The solution? Driving tests, and the Highway Code and clear rules, some advisory and some mandatory. Vehicle safety tests and all quite strict.Even then we still have bad and poor drivers but thankfully very few.They are though bound by law to be insured and tested and carry responsibility.Similarly it's constantly evolving and motor vehicle accidents in this country are among the lowest in the world per 1000. And that's with a road network which is inadequate like the railways and much other infrastructure.Now it has become politicised and with that the meddling of statistics so now you don't know if an RTA was just a bumper nudged or involved a third party, Cycling regulations are ignored completely. Proficiency testing is online ( and a complete joke as you can pass without actually being able to physically ride a bicycle at all. Take it and see for yourselves. And the answers are all online on a link!So now we have LBE installing cameras at small junctions , but cannot find the money to renew worn away road markings or slime obscured signs, or repair slippery surfaces or potholes, bumps and unusable pavements?They could if they want to but playing politics and using divide and rule for their political entertainment and egos is far more satisfying.
Raymond Havelock ● 1014d