[bikeqld] Re: Cycling across crossings enforcement

[Stephen Viller]

Hi Ian,

On 29/03/2009, at 8:48 pm, Ian Lister wrote:

> 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.
>
My partner witnessed it on several days during bike week. From memory  
she said it was the zebra crossing they were concerned with, which she  
does not cycle across because she comes up Moggill Road from Chapel  
Hill and turns straight off the road onto the bikeway via what used to  
be the exit to the Western Freeway (far right hand side of the photo  
below).

Stephen.

> 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
>>
>
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