Journalism and Cycling 2: the difficult second album

If you want more than assumptions as to why there's outrage, then you need to account for the different individual reasons different people have. I (and it seems many others here) would be very confident that a large component of the outrage is because "scrambler user" is an out-group. I would be confident that people carry negative perceptions of scrambler users based on how many of them we've seen behaving badly.

I would be very confident that a large proportion of the "outraged" people do dangerous things themselves while driving and that there's cognitive dissonance at play.

You state "Speeding motorists are now largely caught by speed vans." but this is demonstrable nonsense, because largely motorists are not caught at all and the vast majority of motorists self-identify as regularly speeding.

Finally, I believe that you show cognitive dissonance yourself in considering the scrambler use in some way "different" because you mentioned things like licensing and insurance. There's no real difference between the dangerous antisocial motorcycle driver and dangerous antisocial car drivers. We've all seen the outrageous videos of joyriders crashing into garda cars etc but there's been no real effort to deal with that, no discussion of new legislation or anything of that nature like we're seeing now. I believe Gardai have ANPR and pulse and can quickly check whether vehicles are insured and taxed but approx 102,000 drivers (1 in 25, or 4%) are currently uninsured. If they stop 100 drivers, there's a good chance four of them are uninsured, just like the scrambler user.

To give you a counter-view of scramblers my neighbour uses one as part of a rapid-response blood bag delivery team.

"You state "Speeding motorists are now largely caught by speed vans." but this is demonstrable nonsense, because largely motorists are not caught at all and the vast majority of motorists self-identify as regularly speeding."

I had the same initial reaction when I read that part of their post. Giving them the benefit of doubt, as they were discussing Garda enforcement of traffic legislation I think it should read, "These days Gardaí do very little speed enforcement. The majority of speeding tickets are issued following an offense captured by a speed van."

Opposite effect, or token effect? There's not enough of them, and the publishing of locations is bollox.

Is they are not visible, the judge will strike out the case

Judge Faughnan said the [gatso] van was parked “hiding” behind a wall near a church and a filling station. When he watched traffic one day he saw four motorists jamming on their breaks to avoid getting done

Here it is!

A **** joke of an advert.

RSA should hang their heads in shame for that

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there was a kid flying around fairview park on one of those electric scramblers yesterday evening, nothing will change, scramblers are part of scumbag culture

Same, feral youth yesterday evening in balaclava blasted through the red lights as pedestrians were crossing at the luas intersection with ParkGate St. Proceeded to then break the lights at the Criminal Courts before turning off into the Phoenix Park. Roads were quiet so course hear him for miles.

Was hoping for a squad car sitting outside the courts (not that they'd have done anything) as there often is in the mornings but guess being a bank holiday it gave free reign for all.