Live blog: Video - Cyclist won't let motorist take shortcut down wrong side of the road, then the police turn up; MSPs vote against 20mph speed limit + more

To all you twitter moaners re my coment on my home town. It is purely the congestion and traffic I cannot bare but all you lefties can still call me racsist if if gets you off Charlton? You can bypass London and go through Kent.

— Jim Davidson (@JimDOfficial) June 14, 2019

One of the reasons road.cc brought in the live blog format was so we could cover off stories/incidents that don’t merit a full story, and comment on things swirling around social media with a more flowing/informal style of language… enter 70’s racist Jim Davidson.  

The illiterate ‘comedian’ began trending on Twitter yesterday evening thanks to this charming post, in which he said he’s "never coming to London again" because of "khan" (sic). For sake of argument we’ll assume he means Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London.

Twitter then helpfully reminded Davidson, who frequently mocks gay people and the disabled, that he was in fact due to appear at the Dorchester to ‘entertain’ people literally that evening.

This morning Davison, who makes jokes about rape victims, attempted to clarify his London boycott by saying: “It is purely the congestion and traffic I cannot bare”...
Why a washed up entertainer wants to bare themselves to traffic we don’t know, but on the subject of moaning about congestion while driving around London, Davidson does have previous – he’s complained about the building of Cycle Superhighways in the past, and was caught on camera by the BBC shouting that “Jeremy Corbyn is an environmental disaster” during the Extinct Rebellion protests from the comfort of his large SUV.

Rant over.  

A video's doing the rounds of a member of the public stopping a driver going the wrong way along a road to avoid traffic nearby.

Is it good to be a vigilante and call people out like this when they're breaking the law or doing something wrong? Or is it best left to the cops? pic.twitter.com/CZAUlDJr8u

— Jeremy Vine On 5 (@JeremyVineOn5) June 14, 2019

The clip below is now up for debate on Channel Five show 'Jeremy Vine on 5' this morning. Responses on Twitter are mixed so far, we've stuck the telly on record to see what Jeremy's panel and audience make of it. 

We saw this one coming. The BBC reports that MSPs have voted down a bill seeking to make 20mph the standard speed limit on residential streets in Scotland.

Campaigners say a default 20mph in built up areas would improve road safety for the most vulnerable road users, and without a national standard, and a simplification of the “labyrinthine” process to reduce speeds, there will be a "postcode lottery" of safety on Scotland’s streets.

British Cycling said the bill, “presented MSPs with a golden opportunity to make our streets safer and more welcoming for people travelling by bike or on foot, giving them a real alternative to travelling by car.”

However, in a letter sent to Sustrans Scotland, the Scottish transport minister, Michael Matheson, said he would not back a blanket reduction of the national speed limit.

A majority of MSPs on Holyrood’s Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee then decided not to recommend approval of the bill, arguing that the “one size fits all” approach proposed was inappropriate.

MSPs voted accordingly. Friends of the Earth Scotland called the move "a damning indictment of a parliament that pays lip service to the need for a reduction in car use".