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Cameron 'sorry' for bike mistakes
Conservative leader David Cameron has apologised after being
photographed breaking red lights and cycling the wrong way up a one-way
street.
Pictures in the Daily Mirror newspaper showed the politician breaching
traffic rules as he cycled to work.
"I know it is important to obey traffic laws - but I have obviously
made mistakes on this occasion and I am sorry," Mr Cameron said in a
statement.
But cycling groups defended him, blaming poor regulation and signage.
Cyclist rules
The Mirror followed Mr Cameron on three Wednesdays as he cycled to the
Houses of Parliament from his Notting Hill home.
Friday's newspaper featured Mr Cameron cycling the wrong way up a
one-way street in Dawson Place, breaking a red light in Great George Street,
driving the wrong way around a bollard in the Mall and breaching a red light
at the Houses of Parliament.
But the pictures merely highlighted the difficulties the average
London cyclist faced, said cycling campaign group CTC.
"It shows what an ass cycling regulation (and) traffic management is
in this country at the moment ... we campaign in CTC for things like opening
up one-way streets, which are allowed all over Europe," said director Kevin
Mayne.
"[Mr Cameron] is a yard in front of the white line in front of the
Houses of Parliament - frankly, that's where I'd go to get away from the
cars, he was hardly jumping the light," he said.
He added that the story had also highlighted how difficult "signage
for cyclists is in London".
Hypocrisy?
However, Kevin Clinton, head of road safety for the Royal Society for
the Prevention of Accidents, criticised Mr Cameron.
"It is essential that all road users, including cyclists, obey traffic
laws. The laws are there for everybody's safety and, as always, it is
disappointing when someone in the public eye sets a bad example," he said.
The Tory leader, who has been keen to establish his green credentials,
cycles to work once a week - usually on Wednesday.
He found himself accused of hypocrisy in 2006 for cycling while being
followed by a car carrying his briefcase.
He has since said that this only happened "once or twice".
....heaven forbid he hits a car driver using his mobile ;-)
Cameron 'sorry' for bike mistakes
Conservative leader David Cameron has apologised after being
photographed breaking red lights and cycling the wrong way up a one-way
street.
Pictures in the Daily Mirror newspaper showed the politician breaching
traffic rules as he cycled to work.
"I know it is important to obey traffic laws - but I have obviously
made mistakes on this occasion and I am sorry," Mr Cameron said in a
statement.
But cycling groups defended him, blaming poor regulation and signage.
Cyclist rules
The Mirror followed Mr Cameron on three Wednesdays as he cycled to the
Houses of Parliament from his Notting Hill home.
Friday's newspaper featured Mr Cameron cycling the wrong way up a
one-way street in Dawson Place, breaking a red light in Great George Street,
driving the wrong way around a bollard in the Mall and breaching a red light
at the Houses of Parliament.
But the pictures merely highlighted the difficulties the average
London cyclist faced, said cycling campaign group CTC.
"It shows what an ass cycling regulation (and) traffic management is
in this country at the moment ... we campaign in CTC for things like opening
up one-way streets, which are allowed all over Europe," said director Kevin
Mayne.
"[Mr Cameron] is a yard in front of the white line in front of the
Houses of Parliament - frankly, that's where I'd go to get away from the
cars, he was hardly jumping the light," he said.
He added that the story had also highlighted how difficult "signage
for cyclists is in London".
Hypocrisy?
However, Kevin Clinton, head of road safety for the Royal Society for
the Prevention of Accidents, criticised Mr Cameron.
"It is essential that all road users, including cyclists, obey traffic
laws. The laws are there for everybody's safety and, as always, it is
disappointing when someone in the public eye sets a bad example," he said.
The Tory leader, who has been keen to establish his green credentials,
cycles to work once a week - usually on Wednesday.
He found himself accused of hypocrisy in 2006 for cycling while being
followed by a car carrying his briefcase.
He has since said that this only happened "once or twice".