MalleeFarmer wrote:Personally I think until Push Bikes pay road tax (on fuel atm) and rego they should not be on the road. Also Motorbikes are a completely different story as they pay rego and road tax they have all lights and turn signals and legally have to follow road rules and the fact that they have rego plates means they can be booked after an event has occurred such as with red light cameras. Pushbikes on roads are a menace..
AusTac wrote: Vote +1 MalleeFarmer, you running this year mate?
MalleeFarmer wrote:Personally I think until Push Bikes pay road tax (on fuel atm) and rego they should not be on the road. Also Motorbikes are a completely different story as they pay rego and road tax they have all lights and turn signals and legally have to follow road rules and the fact that they have rego plates means they can be booked after an event has occurred such as with red light cameras. Pushbikes on roads are a menace..
MalleeFarmer wrote:This is Right Genesis!! You sir are on the money!
happyhunter wrote:Push bikes are clean transport, take up no parking space and do not contribute to road congestion, so bike riders should be rewarded rather than punished for choosing a mode of transport that benefits the majority.
Yes. 2 Car lanes to 1 car and 1 bike lane is not catering for a need but frustrating dirty polluting car users into submission until they discard their cars and adopt Clean utopian 2 wheel non-motorised sweet daisy smelling bicycle transport cue the hippy-guitar-pot-smoking-music...
Matthew Terrance O'Connor, 27, was arrested on Friday morning at a home in Heidelberg, a day after he is accused of killing cyclist Peter McGuffie in a hit and run on Barkly Street.[\quote]
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/matth ... prr78.html
Looks like they caught the gutless piece of crap.Mr O'Connor was charged with culpable driving, dangerous driving causing death, failing to remain at an accident and failing to render assistance. He has also been charged with breaching bail.
<<Genesis93>> wrote:happyhunter wrote:Push bikes are clean transport, take up no parking space and do not contribute to road congestion, so bike riders should be rewarded rather than punished for choosing a mode of transport that benefits the majority.
do tell about this efficiencies of bike transport.......
Been to an urban area of Melbourne, or no doubt Sydney etc.... do you know how many 2 lane thoroughfares, main road etc have been 'environmentalised' or otherwise been made 'bike friendly' by taking Car lanes away??
Yes. 2 Car lanes to 1 car and 1 bike lane is not catering for a need but frustrating dirty polluting car users into submission until they discard their cars and adopt Clean utopian 2 wheel non-motorised sweet daisy smelling bicycle transport cue the hippy-guitar-pot-smoking-music....
When a car lane is converted to a bike lane - the bike take up the same space as a car (with the added 'benefit' of annoying all the drivers stuck in an endless line of cars while the total of 2 bikes casually cycles past head held high with the knowledge that the earth will rotate longer as a result of their sacrifices
This is what happens when the council seeks enviro brownie point over logic and common sense; Albert St East Melbourne.