I watch them speed by, way too close most times
If you think that people who already ignore laws like those on speeds and safe passing distances are not simply going to also ignore this new law, then you are illogical and likely to be disappointed. The main effect of this law will be to further reduce the number of law-abiding e-bike riders and put more cars on the roads.
Don't let your hatred for some e-bike riders make you agree with some truly awful short-sighted laws.
I put on Trump’s speech
Put on Carney's speech. It'll make you much more hopeful that some leaders are starting to get it. The Nerve's Carole Cadwalladr published a full transcript in her newsletter earlier today.
After a point. More than double this die on Spain's roads each month and transport ministers aren't fired. Not even the Director-General for Roads gets fired for that. So I'm not seeing why anyone expects the Minister for Transport to be toast over this.
I know, but surely the Adif chief gets fired first? The minister only goes if this keeps happening, or they appointed a bad chief despite being warned, or they cut the budget, or some similar thing they did.
Even then, why the ministry and not the infrastructure company?
I wished our lawmakers were of a less senile age so we can write and pass more appropriate laws for this stuff...but not much we can do.
Talk with them. Explain stuff. Vote for better ones. It's still not much, but it's better than doing nothing and letting them keep on blundering unchallenged.
Thanks for the info. How might culpability go back to the transport minister and the whole government? Did they create track company Adif? Did they refuse to reform it?
It's almost like this law is more about shutting down small online forums that might organise and agitate against governments than it is about safety online, isn't it?
Council councils in the East of England have been putting out plenty of news releases about the numbers of trees. 🌳🌳🌳 Cynics have been pointing out how many council planted or council required developer planted trees have died over the last few years due to inappropriate species, or simple failures to water during heat waves after planting thirsty young trees in a drought area. 🍂☠️😧 They still get counted as plantings and sometimes so do the replacements 🤦
That's really unusual because GoVia usually settle out of court (costs them less) and if not, only charge for the offence where the evader was caught red-handed. Loads of examples of that on rail forums, even for repeat offenders. Multiple prosecution on that scale is rare.
archive.is is not related to the internet archive and I believe is run by a solo dev with private funding.
I looked into who runs it a bit and oh wow, it's far far worse than that. If you get a captcha from archive.is / archive.ph / archive.today and allow it scripting permission, it seems to use your browser as part of a DDoS attack. See https://infosec.exchange/@iampytest1/115902693235671566 and linked pages.
Then the fines probably should be higher and each offence should come with a short but progressively longer suspension of their driving licence.
I've seen a few slaps, mainly in Norwich, England, where of course gun ownership is tightly regulated by law and road rage killers are national news and remembered for a long time (Kenny Noye, for example). I've not yet seen anyone walk or slide over a hood.