[bikeqld] Cycling across crossings enforcement

[Michael Yeates]

Interesting ...

Good to see police ON bikes ... these police are obviously operating 
under a Code 1 emergency ... and flashing lights etc are not obvious ... |-O

Then again, moving to the Moggill Road crossing and its history, and 
looking on the bright side (glass half full?) maybe there is a need 
to justify the need for Ronan Lee's overpass ... and police tickets 
do help. Perhaps a presumption he will be returned?

Trouble is, if the process is anything like the "need" to cross 
Milton Road at the end of Sylvan Road, which WAS originally the 
"need" for what eventually morphed into the Toowong Overpass, it will 
probably be built at Kenmore ...!

As for the holding rails, does their absence in other locations have 
a similarly confusing meaning ie don't stop here but keep pedalling?

MY................

At 09:59 AM 19/03/2009, Stephen Viller wrote:

>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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