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Bike unit bans taxi driver in argument

A TAXI driver was suspended from duty after an argument with police about an alleged offence.

Officers from the district’s anti-social bike unit warned the driver that he had entered a cycle box at red lights at the junction of Livingstone Road and Wrose Road, Wrose, Bradford.

A police spokesman said: “He denied committing any offence, was found to be in breach of some private hire regulations and was extremely argumentative towards the officer to the point where one of his young passengers was caused upset.”

The driver was suspended from driving for the rest of that day and police said he must attend an interview with Bradford Council.

The spokesman added: “The driver’s behaviour left us with no choice but to suspend him to prevent further issues. It is not a decision taken lightly and he will be dealt with appropriately.”

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n ... _argument/

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Suprised the police knew what a "cycle box" was.

can the police suspend a driver?

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Grandad,

The reason he denied committing an offence maybe is because there is no f***ing offence of parking in a cycle box.

Am I surprised the copper didn't realise that? Not one bit.

The driver should have asked the copper what act he was breaching, and then reported him to his boss for being a clueless c***.

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IDFIMH

No. He can arrest him and charge him, but can't suspend him.

I would love to have a chat with this copper.

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IDFIMH

WTF is one of these?

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Grandad,

Think it depends where you are in country,I'm sure in some places it can be a fine.I'm not sure "parking" in one is !

There is in London, the advanced stop line is quite widely enforced (unless you're trapped by slow moving traffic) with drivers being required to stop at the first stop line.

Even some segregated (solid line) bike lanes are timed by traffic orders.

Sounds like a bunch of police zealots enforcing the rights of the uninsured non road tax/Ved paying cyclist over that of the motorist who pays through the nose to sponsor and maintain the very roads the cyclists believe should be for them and them alone.

I pay enough road tax on vehicles to use my bike wherever i want thanks

Why are they being anti-social, is it to fit in with the rest of the cyclists ?

The offence is going through a red light (failure to stop at the stop line) ;

http://content.met.police.uk/Article/Ad ... 0018009433

But see at the bottom where it says an officer must witness all three of - front wheels crossing the line, the time the lights changed and that the lights were working.

The bikes stop before the red light, else the few that actually stop at red lights wouldn't know when to go.

There is no offence of a non bike parking in the bike bit.

Down here we have the most green bike loving council, and anti car civil servants, and even they have confirmed to me on a number of times there is nothing they can do other than warn and shake their fingers.

Oh dear what a shame.

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IDFIMH

As i said before there are some places that prosecute. I think the offence would come under the highway code so i guess it could be used by police officer as traffic violation maybe.

The vast majority of the highway code is advisory. Therefore no prosecution possible.