1 minute of your time could make a real difference

hows that work then? who own/maintains the bike?
Also doesnt it feel a little daft riding with blue lights going only to then stop at a red light, wont most motorists stop and wave you through unaware of the restictions on you?

Originally Posted by Owenski

hows that work then? who own/maintains the bike?
Also doesnt it feel a little daft riding with blue lights going only to then stop at a red light, wont most motorists stop and wave you through unaware of the restictions on you?

I guess you'd only put the blues on if you needed to clear some rush hour traffic.

[jonny.boyd]

Voted =]

Originally Posted by orose

I did try - went to see them at the NEC last year with a view of kicking something off in this area, but I didn't get any info about how to go about things. It's on the back burner at the moment though, until someone works out a way of fitting 30 hours in a day...

Hmm I'm not surprised TBH Its a shame it does take a lot of hours - we're busting guts doing really well and should be operational soon. fingers crossed.
THe best things is get likeminded individuals and talk to the actual groups They are better help than anything

Blues are only used in an emergency as deemed by the hospital/medical staff you are delivering for. Which accounts for very little of the work that any group do. Scot blood had 140 blue light jobs (within Greater Glasgow) last year out of 1000's

[Shellywoozle]

Good cause, but surely if you are to use blues you will need rider training ?

[mattSV]

Originally Posted by Shellywoozle

Good cause, but surely if you are to use blues you will need rider training ?

In Hampshire, blues & twos have to be be disconnected , even then to ride the marked bike you must have been at least ROSPA or IAM trained, and then there is a further independent assessment of your riding.

General consensus is that blues and twos would not make that much of a difference, seeing as we currently only offer an 'out of hours' service - i.e. there would not normally be too much traffic about anyway...

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