Bicycle box abusers face fine and points

Published: 31 May 2013
By Chris Haycock

Andrew Gilligan, who is London mayor Boris Johnson's bicycling 'czar' has said that we wants Transport for London (TfL) to enforce 'advance stop lines' fitted with CCTV cameras to protect cycists. Boxes are currently used to give cyclists a head start on other vehicles, but many motorists currently misuse them. The proposed changes will see CCTV cameras used to catch traffic that abuse the bike boxes. Gilligan said that many cars creep into the advance stop boxes, 'probably more than 50 per cent of the time'. He added that, "At present, you have to have a police officer standing at the junction or in a police car. What we can do is stick a camera up and do automatic enforcement. That will sort out the problem." Jenny Jones, a cycling campaigner and a Green member of the London Assembly said, "Rather than posting a police officer at every traffic light, it would seem sensible to treat ASLs in the same way as we treat yellow boxes or bus lanes, so that we can use cameras to enforce this safety measure." Read the full story at The Standard.