Cyclists

[Roxetten]

The green party want us to have an online portal where people can upload pictures and videos of traffic offences.
Like they have in the UK.
A touts charter will last about as long as it's first constitutional challenge. Just ask someone to prove beyond reasonable doubt that their photographic evidence is a true and accurate representation of what is alleged to have taken place.

Then sit back, and wait.

Classic proc logic fail here.

If nobody was prepared to report crimes we'd live in a lawless society, calling people who have the courage to report illegal activity touts is mafia speak.

Also, footage uploaded to the proposed portal won't automatically lead to convictions, knowing the Gardai they will look for any excuse not to follow up clips uploaded to this portal.

 

[SoundMan]

Classic proc logic fail here.

If nobody was prepared to report crimes we'd live in a lawless society, calling people who have the courage to report illegal activity touts is mafia speak.

Also, footage uploaded to the proposed portal won't automatically lead to convictions, knowing the Gardai they will look for any excuse not to follow up clips uploaded to this portal.

Is there an equivalent portal for cyclists disobeying the rules of the road and have the gardai track them down?

 

[Drucker]

Classic proc logic fail here.

If nobody was prepared to report crimes we'd live in a lawless society, calling people who have the courage to report illegal activity touts is mafia speak.

Also, footage uploaded to the proposed portal won't automatically lead to convictions, knowing the Gardai they will look for any excuse not to follow up clips uploaded to this portal.

It’ll never happen.

Snitches get stitches.

 

[Two Pour Bore]

You sound like one of Eamon Ryan's candidates for a rural car share. All you need to do is find 9 other people in your neighbourhood who are likeminded and who will require the car at different times to you obviously.

Maybe Eamon Ryan is dreaming of a more frugal situation where we put forward the environment's needs first and forego situations where we want a rasher sandwich and drive to the petrol station?

A more thought out life where we're content on our own listening to the approved radio station, or a few of the approved pirate stations, and life has regressed to a point where we can slaughter lamb to get fat on, then survive on nuts and stored veg, with salted meat through the winter?

Maybe we've gone beyond our means. And you and I should go into the moonshine business supplying these desperate folk from our horses?

Maybe modern society is a fucking cunt, and we can't keep up with it. And out politicians can't either. We're just running on a treadmill and it's like that guy falling over frontways as he tries to put his legs in front of him.

Maybe he just needs to sit down. And maybe all of our global politicians need to sit down as well.

 

[Roxetten]

Is there an equivalent portal for cyclists disobeying the rules of the road and have the gardai track them down?

As you know, it's harder to identify cyclists who break the law but the effect of a bad cyclist v a careless driver and the potential harm the latter could do are not comparable.

But you know this already.

 

[SoundMan]

As you know, it's harder to identify cyclists who break the law but the effect of a bad cyclist v a careless driver and the potential harm the latter could do are not comparable.

But you know this already.

Well let's make it easier to identify cyclists who break the law.

Here's an idea - whatabout have a mandatory 4 distinguishable symbol ID that they had to have on their bike or helmet or jacket (whatever) to be on public roadways. If even just 26 letters and say 7 numbers (exclude 0,1, and 5 to were used that would be enough to individually identify 1.18 Million cyclists/bicycles.

Wouldn't be a problem punishing those cyclists who break the law and give many of their fellow cyclists an undeserved bad reputation.

Or is it "Motorists who break the rules of the road - bad. Cyclists who break the rules of the road - ah shur what can you do"?

 

[Crankycorner]

Classic proc logic fail here.

If nobody was prepared to report crimes we'd live in a lawless society, calling people who have the courage to report illegal activity touts is mafia speak.

Also, footage uploaded to the proposed portal won't automatically lead to convictions, knowing the Gardai they will look for any excuse not to follow up clips uploaded to this portal.

Big difference between reporting crimes and actively looking for crimes. Also, reporting illegal parking isn’t remotely the same as reporting theft, assault etc etc

 

[Roxetten]

Big difference between reporting crimes and actively looking for crimes. Also, reporting illegal parking isn’t remotely the same as reporting theft, assault etc etc

#Reported

#Portal

??

 

[Drucker]

relax lads.
By 2024 a “photo” of an illegally parked car will have all the credibility of a crayon drawing.

 

[Crankycorner]

??politicians really would take credit for the opening of an envelope. Labour had fuck all to do with this.