In message m, Richard
Goodman writes
According to the Metro, private security guards and street wardens are going
to be licenced & empowered to impose £30 fines on pavement cyclists...

http://www.metro.co.uk/metro/standar...cle_id=15404&i
n_page_id=1

Do the police already impose these fines?

I ask because I braked and stopped for a red light at one of the
pedestrian crossings on the Mall this morning. There were no peds in
sight and the road was clear, so I was tempted, but I obeyed my
instincts. Several cars stopped alongside me.

Seconds later another cyclist whizzed past me and through the red, only
to be flagged down about 50 yards further down the Mall by a policeman
who appeared from behind one of the trees or flag poles there.

In recent months I've often I've seen cyclists deep in conversation with
police bods around there, presumably for cycling on the pavement rather
than the road, or for hopping on the pavement at the squeeze point at
Admiralty Arch.

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