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GM Police Complaint – part 2: local resolution
This short article is an update on the progress of my police complaint, which I first reported in this article. Two weeks after I posted my complaint to the Professional Standards Branch of Greater Manchester Police, I was informed that … Continue reading
More weird GM Police arguments.
I had occasion to report another incident to the Police last Friday. I may blog about that in due course, but this post is just about the conversation I had with the police officer who dealt with the case when … Continue reading
Greater Manchester Police – Time to Act!
OK, this is getting ridiculous now. I wasn’t intending to turn my police complaint into an open letter, but recent events convince me that it’s well past time to get serious about this. Back in February, I wrote about police … Continue reading
GM Police Again Refuse to Deal With Aggressive Drivers – Episode 2
A week days ago, I posted an article about the Greater Manchester Police Force’s refusal to deal with driving that is deliberately dangerous or intimidating. It happens that I was also, whilst writing that, reporting another incident in which a … Continue reading
GM Police still refusing to deal with aggressive drivers.
Last week, I had occasion to report two different instances of aggressive driving – road rage, in fact. The two incidents are shown in the following videos (I will refer to them by the registration numbers of the vehicles involved): … Continue reading
Heartily sick of these pathetic anti-cyclist attitudes.
There is a certain type of person who refuses to accept the responsibility that comes with being in charge of a tonne or more of powerful, dangerous machinery in a public place, and tries to justify their disgusting attitude by … Continue reading
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A response to a well-meaning, but ill-informed driver.
Three days ago, a driver in Bristol posted a video that has got quoted in the local press. This driver was aggrieved because his car was damaged by someone who was unable to be traced. I can understand why he … Continue reading
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Highlighting the bad bits.
Update (6th March 2014): Modified the annotations in the map to include links to videos showing examples of the problems that I encounter at these locations. Yesterday, I saw the following Twitter post from the All Party Cycling Group: My … Continue reading
Posted in Article, Bolton, Road Justice, Salford, Space for Cycling
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Do the police normalize dangerously bad driving?
I have thought for a while about writing something about this issue, but time never seems to be on my side. However, I have had a number of experiences and encounters this week that have prompted me to set something … Continue reading
The very common problem of tailgating.
Tailgating by motorists is something that rightly annoys a great many cyclists, partly because, despite it’s being very dangerous, it is so common and often deliberate. Here are two examples from a single morning commute in May 2013: Those were … Continue reading
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