Japan’s cyclists to be punished for riding drunk, phone use from November

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/08/8cbf01b58ef9-japans-cyclists-to-be-punished-for-riding-drunk-phone-use-from-nov.html

4 Comments

  1. Title is misleading. The law is being implemented but that doesn’t mean enforced. That would require the police to leave the koban and proactively enforce the law, rather than wait for someone to call them.

    More realistically these laws will just be applied when people cause accidents, but it’s very common for cyclists to flee the scene of the accident rather than stop to take responsibility for it.

    Source: I’ve been hit by 3 bicycles in the last 5 years and none stopped.

  2. Just like riding with umbrellas is enforced, right? They will do nothing because that’s all they know how to do.