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A few weeks ago, I was cycling my usual route through North London to work and saw a policeman standing next to a temporary traffic light.

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“I need you all to know that we are now giving on-the-spot £100 fines to anyone who goes through this red light,” he shouted.

And, humiliatingly, as soon as he said that, a woman made a break for it and cycled on through - the PC waving his arms and shouting at her to come back. She did not.

Perhaps not surprisingly, I’ve not seen him or another police officer at the same spot since.

Was the woman right to cycle through the red light? No. Was this a waste of police time and resources? Debatable. Would the whole thing be averted if anyone meant to be doing the work that has blocked the road was ever actually seen on the site? That’s beside the point.

We can conclude........

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