[bikeqld] Cycling across crossings enforcement

[Glen Fergus]

> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [bikeqld] Cycling across crossings enforcement
> 
> ...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?

Two of the three look like they're not actually ON the crossing
Ian (though damn close).  Sect 248 proscribes riding across "on
a ... crossing", vis:

"248 No riding across a road on a crossing
The rider of a bicycle must not ride across a road, or part of
a road, on a children's crossing, marked foot crossing or
pedestrian crossing."

In law, words generally mean what they say.  That is, *exactly*
what they say, not what you or I might think they meant to say.

[There may, of course, be other provisions which could be
construed to proscribe what the two are doing.  Like eg
Sects 129-135, which say keep to the left side of the road.]

G.