Member

As the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, set out, and as I think is our common experience, particularly in our large towns and cities such as London, every day we see cyclists ignoring traffic regulation and putting people at risk. I am a cyclist, and I am not against cyclists. This is not about cyclists being a different genre of people who just go out to hurt people. I think it is to do with the fact that we are all guilty of this at times: when we are not challenged, if we think we are going to get away with it, we carry on doing it— I probably ought to speak for myself. I think there is that human behaviour element where, if there is no deterrence by detection, I am afraid that behaviour can deteriorate.