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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · Oct 18

How can we expect parents to let their kids ride to school if this is how their neighbours drive towards them? He's five by the way .

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 21h

What a pleasant surprise to see this at Bromley magistrates last week

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A small business card size card from Phonekills.com saying “record retreat report”

The other side of the card which talks about the loss of spatial awareness when using a phone and the damage it can cause

AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 2d

Would you share the footage?

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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 3d

Near Miss of the Day 939: Driver prosecuted after turning across a bike lane without warning

"I was very clearly not in the mirror's blind spot"

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 2d

It normally would but this was in Merton where the driver is king and everyone else can get fucked.

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Will is too honest to ever be an MP 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.bsky.social · 3d

What radicalised YOU in the war on cars?

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 2d

This is what radicalised me

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This and the reaction of millions of my fellow citizens who tried to claim that the driver was totally correct.

And the thousands of my fellow citizens who got excited at the prospect of my son being killed by a driver.

Will is too honest to ever be an MP 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.bsky.social · 3d

What radicalised YOU in the war on cars?

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 2d

It’ll always be this morning that radicalised me.

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · Oct 18

How can we expect parents to let their kids ride to school if this is how their neighbours drive towards them? He's five by the way .

AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 2d

Vulnerable pedestrians have to step into a bike lane because Amazon drivers don’t care about you or your family.

Also, notice how this isn’t a driveway, it’s just someone’s front garden.

An Amazon van is on a tiny front garden space and completely blocking the path which forces people into an active bike lane

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 2d

Oooooopsie

a man in a suit is opening the door of a car .

Alt: Someone runs a key down the side of a car

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 2d

This is how Merton council think they can treat cyclists.

They can get away with it because who cares about cyclists? This shows that they know about this long-standing issue and refuse to act.

An injury is inevitable and the payout will be more than the repair bill.

A piece of paper stuck to a traffic cone. The paper has the word “warning” at the top and a black and white image of a cyclist crashing due to a massive crack in the ground

A view of a bike path with a separated pedestrian path. On the bike path are three large barriers which are covering huge long cracks in the tarmac

A long crack at least 1metre long, 5cm wide and at least 15cm deep

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 3d

Yup. Slap bang in the middle of the road in between the two lines of zigzags. I can only guess that the police felt that because the rider didn’t park ON the zigzags then somehow this could be challenged in court and so they chickened out and only issued a warning letter.

AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 3d

This is a first for me.

Never seen a warning letter being sent out for a zigzag offence. Absolutely should have been 3 points and a fine.

A motorbike is parked in the middle of the road in between the zigzag lines

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 4d

wait, are BOTH cars parked on the pavement? or is the one on the right in some sort of bay?

AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 4d

This is what we call "the money shot".

Why? Because it'll cost the driver a shit load of money when you add up the fine (and court costs if they're stupid enough to fight it) combined with the massively increased insurance premiums for using a mobile phone whilst driving.

Worth it? I hope so.

POV is of a head mounted camera on a cyclist alongside the driver-side of a black BMW. The window of the car is half down and you can see the male driver looking at the cyclist. The driver looks either shocked or startled. In his right hand you can clearly see an illuminated mobile phone.

AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 4d

Fair point, they look very unobstrusive, and I bet they could even be beautified or incorporated into landscaping too.

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 4d

These are my feelings about things. I hate the idea that we have to abandon space on our pavements in order to protect them from dangerous or lazy drivers.
But at the same time, I do see the value in forcing drivers to follow the rules rather than leaving it up to chance.

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 4d

Parking on zigzags and mounting the pavement.

All to put up or take down the latest advert for McDonald’s.

This could be prevented if ordinary citizens could submit this stuff quickly and simply through an app. It would massively transform our public spaces for the better.

A white van has been parked on the pavement and on zigzags whilst a worker on the other side of the road appears to be putting up or taking down a large advert

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes I’m just really grateful that I live in an area where this is what counts as “finding drugs in the playground” rather than living somewhere you get stabbed by your neighbour’s drugged up son.

A purple children’s oral medicine syringe is lying in the grass. It is a medicine called “calpol” which is orally administered for small children with headaches

AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 5d

I had been wondering where Eric Pickles had got to.

AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 6d

You can’t park there mate.

Another defeated rival of @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social.

If you take on the King you better not miss or you’ll end up with two wheels in the air.
And yes, that’s the driver on the left being consoled.

#Bollard

A Ukrainian plated car has been driven onto the top of a bollard and is stuck.

Same scene as previous but the driver is being consoled by another person

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AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 6d

5th October is definitely the latest I’ve ever seen an organised game of cricket being played in England.

Absolute commitment from these lads.

A scene of a game of cricket played between two teams in Orange and Blue kits

AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 6d

thanks :)

AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent point

AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 7d

Yup. I’ve seen many of those studies and see it in action out on the roads. Hence why I ride so defensively and was able to slow to avoid this one.

AZB @azb2019.bsky.social · 7d

Sad to hear that the postcode lottery of justice continues.
But yes, a larger vehicle is often used by bad drivers because they know the consequences of a collision are low. They’d never pull out on a bus like this.

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