I really hope during any blitz or enforcement, we get cops that know the difference between a rider doing monos at 50kph, without a helmet vs a person riding to work in a safe manner to avoid a car collision. Common sense must prevail.
Posted by MangoMadnessTsv
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It won’t. Once those laws are on the books, with a huge Olympics deficit to fund, they’ll be used for revenue raising. And the number of commuter and recreational cyclists will decrease.
State government and Councils alike will see that as a win, because they’ll be able to get away with spending less on cycling.
I hope there’s been enough outrage outside of Reddit to fix this blanket and moronic law. We literally already had the correct laws in place and this is just blatant pandering to the LNP voter base who haven’t touch a pushy since 1964.
If I was the cops I reckon I’d do the opposite, and make sure everyone I ticket knows who to blame. Flood the courts with pissed off MAMILs with lawyer money and make sure everyone involved remembers why “we need a change” is not a good enough reason to vote for the “sEnSiBlE eCoNoMiC mAnAgEmEnT” party.
You can stop at “Queensland government criticised”. Everything the LNP does benefits *them*, not us.
Shit for brains would be more appropriate
Just keep riding if one of these clowns on foot try and stop you for doing 13km/h
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Just more restrictions on micro-travel options to placate the needs of the industries that really rule this country.
If this law goes ahead there are going to be some very pissed off motorists once I change my daily route from taking backstreets on share bike lanes to taking up a full lane on Ipswich Rd.
Everyone is falling for car vs bicycle vs pedestrian arguments when really the issue is the lack of separated bicycle infrastructure. The bikes understandably don’t feel safe with cars, and pedestrians now don’t feel safe walking next to bikes with this new technology.
We need significant investment in bike paths that are actually useful, not the ones that run for 200m then feed back onto an arterial.
So how is doing 25-30km/h on a regular pushie any different to doing 10km/h on an eBike or eMoto? Soon they’ll be limiting the old fashioned bike to 10km/h “for safety”.
I drove 75km/h behind a kid on an ebike on Saturday. He never paddled. At least he wore a helmet….
There’s no difference in my mind between a high powered ebike like that and a motorbike, accept that you need to be 16 and licenced to do so on a regular bike.
If it’s going that fast and no pedaling that’s not an ebike. It’s an e-motocycle which was already illegal. Why do you insist on penalising everyone doing the right thing on legal bikes when the problem is you just don’t understand the difference ?!
Jesus Christ, just enforce the existing 250w 25km/hr rule and everything will be fine.
It’s those teenage idiots riding those 7kw temu surons electric motor bikes at 60+km/hr that’s the issue. I mean the problem is clear as day yet the govt comes up with these idiotic new laws that will affect all the majority of ebike + scooter riders who are mostly law abiding and don’t cause any issues.
It frustrates me when I ride into the CBD in the morning and I see 4-5 cops pulling over a e-scooter rider dressed clearly just going to work just because he/she went over the QUT bridge a bit over the limit, when in the very same afternoon riding home I see teenage hoons riding lime scooters all the over the cbd way over the limit and without helmets.
I’m ok with it – they are a menace on our footpaths and again too many people use e-scooters or e-bikes when they should be riding actual push bikes. I’d like to see BCC change it up and have a higher proportion of push bikes that you can rent rather than e-scooters
The timing of this with the fuel crisis could not be worse