Cycling: Penalties
House of Lords

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Lord Stoddart of Swindon (Independent Labour)

To ask Her Majesty's Government why the penalty for the offence of cycling on pavements was not uprated in the recent increases in penalties for other road traffic offences, and whether they will now review the existing penalty to bring it into line with inflation and the seriousness of the offence.

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Earl Attlee (Whip, House of Lords; Conservative)

The Department for Transport issued a consultation paper on 14 June proposing to increase the penalties for a wide range of motoring fixed penalty offences. The fixed penalty notice penalty for cycling on a footway is currently £30 and has been that level since 2000. One of the options in the consultation document is to increase £30 penalties to £45 where they apply to motoring fixed penalty offences, other than for parking. Pedal cycle offences are listed in the document as one of the types of offence in the scope of this option.

All the proposals are being consulted about, with the consultation closing on 5 September. None of the proposed increases to fixed penalty notices has yet been implemented.

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Katja Leyendecker
Posted on 21 Jul 2012 9:15 am (Report this annotation)

This reeks yet again of discrimination. Maybe this country could first support people who currently cycle with safe cycleways, BEFORE penalising them?

 

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