The laws will double commute times, disadvantage people who cannot or don't want to get a license, increase danger for cyclists who will be forced onto the road, increase congestion. And all while not doing anything about getting rid of illegal e-motos that are the problem to begin with.
All these laws achieve is to kill off legal active transport in Queensland and stop normal, everyday people using legal e-bikes that are slower than ordinary pedal bikes.
Legal e-bikes are the missing link that has finally gotten people out of cars and onto bikes and the Qld LNP doesn't like it. Now they're forcing they're shit worldview onto the whole of Qld.
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The speed seems like reasonable limit when there’s pedestrians about.
What this highlights is the need for bicycle specific paths where they can go a reasonable speed.
At just a raw strategic move, thank god they are not trying to keep going with the “think about your uber eats order” angle anymore, that was always at best ineffective, if not counter productive. Public opinion of the food delivery apps is dogshit, and at best people are being a bit lazy and don’t what to think about how it’s all bit on the exploitation of foreign students and people on temporary visas, they don’t want to have to defend it, even in their minds to themselves.
Pushing out the argument that we shouldn’t have these laws because of how it will impact this relatively abusive industry wasn’t going to turn people against these laws, and distracted away from the much better arguments against these laws.
I probably sound like a grumpy off man, but the gangs of teens on them around my area doing wheelies in groups of 8-10 on the roads in front of cars, think the speed should be enforced.
Yes I know it’s probably the 5% that ruin it for everyone, but it needs to be curbed.
Yep. 10kph is wank.
As somone who doesn’t drive and travels most places as a pedestrian, I’d rather not get bowled over by people careening down sidewalks on motorised vehicles so I’m in favour of this change.
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As someone who doesn’t ride, please excuse the ignorance. Doesn’t the speed limit apply to both e-bike and regular bikes on the foot paths? If only e-bikes, why not just switch over to regular bikes then?
If it saves one life I’m all for it.
Who needs more than 10kmh anyway, especially in the cities?
We should regulate and license stricter!
As per the headline….
At least people walking on the foot path or innocently walking out of a shop won’t get cleaned up by one of these hey!
I’m not looking forward to riding on Kelvin Grove Road with my 2 kids with the trucks and Ford Rangers tbh.
Of course the people telling me this is good are developers and boomers lmao
Fuck me Mickelturd is such an arrogant piece of shit. The fat turd talks tough for someone who hasn’t ridden a bicycle since 1995.
If I had an e-bike or something and felt it was unsafe to ride on the road , like going over the story bridge ( because that straight up is ) I’m riding on the footpath . F the stupid ass law.
Bicycles routinely ride 25-35km/h down the same paths that e-bikes are going to be restricted to 10km/h. It’s absolutely bonkers. Any fit cyclists could easily “power” themselves up to 45-60km/h if they wanted.
It’s like making everyone now drive 50km/h down the highway because a great many annoying drivers speed in 100/110 zones. People who speed and break laws are *everywhere*, regardless of the medium.
We already know, based off years of academic and real world research how to make things safer for pedestrians. From ebikes AND cars. This is a targeted and ludicrous policy that will not benefit anyone. There’s a whole book that’s been implemented across a whole country successfully (sustainable safety, written by the… Norwegian? Government)
I’m so confused by this part. So now people with disabilities will be excluded from these restrictions for any mobility device they use, including e-bikes?
“Mr Mickelberg said he understood the requirement for riders to hold a learners licence would “disadvantage” those who use e-mobility devices but are unable to drive.
“However it’s important to note those who have a disability and are able to use an aid to mobility right now, regardless of whether that’s powered by an electric motor or otherwise, will still be able to do so,” he said.”
I’m disabled and I don’t ride an e-bike, but if I did, I’d be sticking my disability parking permit on the front out of an abundance of caution.
Hmm… $751 for going 30 km/h. (That is literally a week’s worth of minimum wage… $25–30/h after superannuation.)
Going down a hill can easily reach 30 km/h on a normal bicycle. You need to go over 10 km/h on a normal bicycle just to not struggle going uphill. Then there are the train strikes (the only public transport bicycles can use) and the inflated fuel prices for cars, plus the continual expansion of Brisbane’s central traffic area pay parking with increasingly broad hours throughout the day and week…
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You can’t even get up hills at 10km…
I’m so over this shit government and its shit click bait legislation.
Honestly, the whole situation feels backwards. I ride my e-bike to work every day, charge it off my own solar at home, and I’m not bleeding money into fuel, parking, and rising power bills. It’s hard not to wonder if that’s exactly the problem – people quietly opting out of the system and affecting corporations profits.
Instead of encouraging that kind of independence and sustainability, we’re getting slapped with vague or heavy-handed rules that are completely out of touch with how people actually live.
If you’re even remotely bothered by this, please make a submission to the Parliamentary Committee. Email your local members. Call them. Be annoying about it. These decisions get shaped by whoever shows up and makes noise, so if we stay quiet, we’re basically asking for more of the same.
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Watch any Australian crash cam youtube video and this failing government wants e-bikes jostling with the rubbish seen on those kids.
This law will be temporarily lifted for the Olympic if it even lasts till this Christmas.