A city councillor has asked local gardai why more cyclists are not prosecuted for breaking traffic lights.
Cllr Frank Fahy told this week’s meeting of the the City Council Joint Policing Committee that the figure for all of last year was eight cases, but he added that if he took five minutes at any junction, he would see as many cases as that.
“It is a matter of health and safety and cyclists have to obey the rules of the lights like the rest of us,” he said.
However, Supt Damien Flanagan said that it is a matter of the offence having to be observed by gardai that results in the low level of prosecution.
“If I am sitting there in a garda patrol car, nobody does it, but when I am travelling home in my own car, I see lots of it happening. But these are cases that are difficult to detect and prove,” he said.
