[bikeqld] Cycling across crossings enforcement

[Christopher Biggs]

On 18 Apr 2009, at 8:09 AM, Michael Yeates wrote:
>
> So I would not be surprised at all if a local constituent sitting in  
> his car waiting for the lights watched cyclists flouting the law and  
> complained to Dr Flegg about it ... and it would not surprise me if  
> Dr Flegg then asked the police to take some action.
>
> But while that is all quite reasonable, it is also all  
> conjecture ... it could equally be someone who was walking across  
> the crossing and was startled by one or more cyclists overtaking in  
> an irresponsible manner ... and reported it to police.

If I had to speculate as to why someone would complain, I would finger  
people turning left at either of the two slip-lane/zebra crossing  
combos.

Its easy enough to spot a ped at the zebra crossing and stop for them,  
but when cyclists speed up to the zebra crossing and shoot across with  
the expectation of priority, it can give drivers a nasty fright.    
I've done it, when racing the red.

Don't get me started on cyclists who 'steal base' against the red on  
moggill and camp in the median pen...those ppl are a motorist- 
relations deathsquad.

Even if we badger MR into fitting cycle-across lights, I suspect the  
zebra crossings would remain.   I very much doubt MR would plump for  
signalising those two slip-lanes, without blowing it up in to a big  
problem requiring impact study etc.

The whole bloody thing should have been an overpass from the  
beginning.   The money poured down the toilet at toowong (to be dug up  
for the tunnel shortly) would have been better spent there.

And another thing, what about the next (outbound) crossing at witton  
rd?   Can anyone tell me what the law dictates when crossing there?

--chris