4.16 Councillor Glanz commented that he was a pedestrian and regularly observed cyclists’ behaviour. He was of the view that there was a need to distinguish between professional cyclists such as couriers and the casual cyclist and those who used a bike to travel to work. He suggested that there may be an opportunity to develop a registration scheme for the former which would make enforcing infringements of the Highway Code easier. The Chairman informed the Committee that in advance of the meeting she had visited Oxford Circus with Councillor Glanz for research purposes where they witnessed approximately twenty percent of cyclists ignoring the Highway Code.
4.18 (...) He considered that the Police were prioritising targets at the expense of citizens’ safety and suggested that if the Police did not have the sufficient resources to undertake additional enforcement activity that they should allocate the powers to the City Council to carry out this type of work