Jeremy Vine calls for drivers to be banned from overtaking cyclists in cities

[Alex321]

Any change to rules about cyclists being overtaken would mean changes to law and thus I assume changed to Highway Code. The article prompting this thread and Vine's proposal is from Aug 2023. Highway Code was last updated 2022(?) and Highway Code updates are infrequent (given the work involved, getting changes out to road users, etc.).

It is updated rather more frequently than you seem to think
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/updates

Although surprisingly, there have been none in 2024, there was one in 2023, four in 2022, three in 2021, etc.

So calling for such a change the year after a Highways Code update is just daft. Time to have called for such a change would have been during the consultation before the Highway Code update.

Well iut was actually much less than a year, but as I say above, they are frequent enough that doesn't matter.

If Vine really wanted a change he'd have called for it earlier and cynic in me suspects his real motivation is "click bait" and PR. I would not be surprised if me was not an avid Social Media poster seeking "Followers" and to get/keep followers you need content ...

Of course it is click bait. He knows perfectly well there is no chance of it happening.

 

[simongt]

I took my test in 1972. When it came to the emergency stop, the examiner said 'When I slap my hand onto my clipboard, stop'.
I kept his hand in my peripheral vision and as soon as I saw it move down, I hit the brakes.
I passed - !