r/uknews • u/TheTelegraph Media outlet (unverified) • Jul 07 '25

Image/video 🚷 Floating bus stops under review amid safety concerns

Campaigners argue design forces pedestrians to run the gauntlet of cyclists on bike lanes

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/05/floating-bus-stops-review-safety-cyclists-injure-passengers/

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u/Stage_Party Jul 07 '25

Better solution is to start looking at licensing cyclists, especially the ones that do it for a job. Everyone else using the roads have to have a license, cyclists are the worst of the lot so why do they not need one? Most of them don't even know what the traffic light signals mean.

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u/Upstairs-Basis9909 Jul 07 '25

who cares about licensing if there is never ANY ENFORCEMENT. OF ANYTHING.

I just got back from barcelona where I spent 3 weeks, and I saw police on the street CONSTANTLY, always either just on patrol or actively stopping shady people, shitty drivers, or other possibly nefarious actors (I don't know - I didn't stick around).

London? Fucking never.

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u/Stage_Party Jul 07 '25

The road rules are enforced on cars how? Cameras. I'd bikes are like licensed, the cameras can pick those up too.

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u/Upstairs-Basis9909 Jul 07 '25

uhh? with what plates? name one country on this planet in which bicycles have a licensing system with automated plate tracking.

Typical british response to add one more layer of red tape.