[bikeqld] Re: Cycling across crossings enforcement

[Ian Lister]

BTW did anybody on this list witness the police issuing warnings at the 
crossing of Moggill Rd a couple of weeks back, or know anything else about 
it? I'm particularly wondering whether they were concerned about the zebra 
crossings on one or both of the slip lanes, or the signalised crossing of 
Moggill Rd itself, or all three.

Thanks,

Ian

P.S. a pic of the intersection in question is here, for anybody not 
familiar with it:

http://www.bikeqld.org.au/wiki/Image:Moggill_Road_Western_Freeway_intersection.jpg

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, 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
>