[bikeqld] Cycling across crossings enforcement

[Stephen Viller]

Hi Ian,

My parter cycles in past there most days and also spotted this on  
tuesday morning (she asked me if there had been any reports on this  
list about what was happening). Her account backs up what you say,  
that it seemed to be regarding cycling across the pedestrian crossing  
that runs across the left turn lane on the Western Freeway off-ramp  
onto Moggill Road.

Much discussion followed on the awful redesign of the intersection  
from the cyclists' perspective, along with what a great start is was  
to cycle week.

Stephen.

On 19/03/2009, at 9:53 am, Ian Lister wrote:

> This morning at the Ride to Work Day breakfast I heard from another  
> cyclist that on Tuesday morning the police were issuing written  
> warnings to cyclists cycling across the crossing of Moggill Rd on  
> the Western Freeway. Did anybody here witness that? Given that  
> crossing actually has lean bars on it I had assumed that amounted to  
> tacit approval of cycling across there (what else are they for?!)  
> even though it is of course a violation of section 248 of the road  
> rules.
>
> Imagine my further surprise (OK, so I'm naive) when, at the end of  
> the breakfast, three bike cops happily cycled across the marked foot  
> crossing on North Quay:
>
>    http://www.bikeqld.org.au/wiki/Image:Police_on_crossing.jpg
>
> Seems like some pretty mixed messages?
>
> Ian
>
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Stephen Viller
Brisbane, Australia
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