Less than a fortnight after promising to create a “death by dangerous cycling” law that would treat killer cyclists the same as motorists, Mr Shapps said he wanted to stop certain behavior on the roads. He told the Daily Mail: “One place where cyclists don’t actually break the law is speeding, and that can’t be right, which is why I absolutely recommend that speed limit restrictions be extended to cyclists. “Particularly where you have 20mph limits on increasing numbers of roads, cyclists can easily exceed them, so I want speed limits for cyclists to apply. “This obviously leads you to the question, ‘So how are you going to identify the cyclist?’ Need license plates and insurance? And something like that,” he told the newspaper. Mr Shapps said he is proposing a review of how cyclists who break the law are tracked. The speed limits of the Highway Traffic Code and the Road Traffic Act apply only to motor vehicles and their drivers. While local authorities can impose speed limits on cyclists, this is rarely done. The Department of Transportation declined to comment to the PA news agency for Mr. Shapps’ interview. Department officials acknowledged in the correspondence that the highlighted measures would require bicyclists to have license plates or other identification marks for enforcement purposes. Mr Shapps told the Mail that while he did not want to stop people getting on their bikes, we should not “turn a blind eye” to cyclists breaking the laws of the road, speeding and running “red lights” and “the escape. “. It comes after Mr Sapps pledged to create a “death by dangerous cycling” law to “impress on cyclists the real harm they can cause when speed is combined with a lack of care”. The move will close a legal loophole which means cyclists who kill pedestrians can only be jailed for two years. Under Mr Shapps’ proposal, the new law will be added to the Transport Bill due to be brought before Parliament in the autumn.
