City of Westminster to seek powers for council officers to fine cyclists

That's just comical, I can just imagine every single person that gets asked to stop giving a cockney wideboy 'Faa*** orrrrf'.

So would wardens have powers of detention? Err, no. So what's the point? It won't work. Does the council have figures for how many little old ladies have been intimidated by cyclists? Perhaps the council has data for how many little old ladies have been knocked down by cars, trucks and buses though. In fact, if the council doesn't have the latter it's failing in its job. And if the figures don't suggest that the latter is the cause of 100x the number of accidents (at least) I'll be somewhat surprised.

By the way, the guy on the bike in the photo looks a bit, like my old mate Robin.

Lets be honest - who's going to stop for the warden trying to give you a ticket - stationary vehicles its pretty easy... Now a bicyle on a pavement putting risk to little old ladies - I ain't gonna throw myself in front of them and shout "STOP".

Do Traffic Wardens in Westminster have the power to ticket cars stopped in mandatory cycle lanes? In Cambridge they don't, and the police never enforce it.

Frustration? Frustrating is what happened to me on Friday. Cycling up Vauxhal Street, I see a guy in a wheelchair getting off the pavement onto the road. Thought it was a bit weird and risky. Overtook him, with enough room, and got to the lights. I was waiting there, a car stopped on the advance box, so I positioned myself next to it. Suddenly, I hear an angry male voice "get out of the way". I immediately thought it might be the driver, but no, it was the guy in the wheelchair!!! He wanted to use the advance box!!

He was quite rude, and it really pissed me off at first. On second thought, I thought that maybe he is in a wheelchair b/c he had a road accident...?

I just hope it doesn't happen again, though. Now that would be FRUSTRATING!!

a) so many people are frsutrated by it - yep, I'm frustrated by a lot of things too, poor driving, too much rain, dog poo, crap tv, can I make a complaint and get Westminster to solve it?

b)they should probably look at helping out these little old ladies, sounds like they if they're always falling over, they should be given a Little Old Lady Lane

c) knocked down and abused by a cyclist - just the one? Fair enough, he sounds like an idiot, lock him up and make him drive a bus for 10 years.

And if they've got more officers on the street than the police, then they're over spending and should offload a few, rather than make them profitable.

Good grief, could she be any more cynical in her choice of language? Little old ladies indeed. I'm surprised they haven't been seen clubbing baby seals or taking candy from babies as well...

So traffic wardens can fine cyclsits for riding on the pavement but not fine car/truck drivers for driving badly and in some instances, forcing cyclists to ride on the pavement? No doubt Westminster traffic wardens will be 'incentivised' to hand out tickets left, right and centre, as happened with parking tickets and with predictable results when it is revealed that the vast majority of these are spurious.

Who needs numbers, if you say it often enough it's true! I have to say though, on my infrequent trips to London I've not seen legions of A over T old ladies littering the streets.

How many little old ladies? What does "always" mean? As dispicable as knocking over little old ladies and abusing them is, where are the numbers backing this up?

And the sortr of person who does knock over the little old lady and then abuses her is going to stop for a local authority member of staff?

Sounds to me like a way to maximise the revenue stream from traffic wardens...