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London police issued more than 200 tickets and warnings – most of them to drivers – as part of a week-long blitz targeting dangerous behaviour by road users at city intersections.

In total, police handed out 97 tickets and 99 warnings to drivers, with nine cyclists receiving tickets and 17 others getting written warnings.

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The results of the blitz, which took place last week, were announced by Deputy Chief Trish McIntyre during Thursday’s police services board meeting, in which the board also agreed to look at the possibility of creating a bicycle registry to help reduce bike thefts in London.

“The whole initiative was designed (to target) safety and education,” she said about the blitz.

The enforcement campaign was part of city hall’s road safety strategy Vision Zero, an initiative aimed at eliminating crash-related pedestrian and cyclist deaths and injuries.

In the last five years, there have been 371 pedestrian collisions and 193 cyclist crashes reported at or near signal intersections in the city, according to statistics collected by police.