A modest request to HM Government: if we have to have an 'active travel commissioner' can we please make it a pedestrian next time, rather than an Olympic cyclist? In the past five years the number of fines issued by police forces to cyclists fell from 6,000 to 3,660. Some police forces last year failed to fine a single cyclist, while just ten were fined in the whole of Devon and Cornwall. But even this, apparently, is still too much for Chris Boardman, the current holder of the above post and a former gold medallist on his bike. While acknowledging that cyclists ought to stop at red lights, he adds, in a letter to the Times, 'We need to distinguish between behaviour that irritates us and behaviour that puts lives at greatest risk. Someone on a bike and someone driving a two tonne vehicle do not pose the same potential risk. That does not excuse either breaking the law, but it should inform where we put our limited enforcement resources.' ✍️ Ross Clark Article | spectator.com/article/we-nee… | @RossjournoClark