Is Brian Reid's letter in
http://www.smh.com.au/news/letters/studies-show-freer-laws-on-cannabis-do-not-equate-to-more-users/2008/05/11/1210444235055.html?page=fullpage
true, or just a load of bollocks?
I suspect it's a load of bollocks, or if indeed there is a sign, it's
probably about as legal as the signs outside of my town that say "no
cycling" on the public RTA controlled highway.
My thought is that SMH should only publish letters talking about legal
opinion if they can verify the truthness of the statements made by the
letter writer. Tony Schramko's next comments *is* a load of bollocks,
because bicycle riders, last time I checked, do not have the law about
riding with sufficient room in front.
Pity they didn't publish my letter:
Subject: Eric Roozendaal is not helpful to peak hour traffic
It seems to me that, contrary to the roads minister, Eric Roozendaal's
suggestion that bikes are not helpful to peak hour traffic (despite bike
riders having as much purpose in getting somewhere as our car driving
compatriots), it is other traffic which is not helpful to peak hour
traffic. For example, from the NSW trans****t department's own statistics,
we find that commuters have a car occupancy rates of 1.1 people per car
(or at least 9 out of 10 cars having only the 1 driver occupant). The
taxi travellers where there is just a shade over 2 people per car, one of
them being the driver doing the ferrying. The people attending schools,
where the occupancy rate is 1.3 (where the average is boosted by mums in
4WDs driving their charges to school in peak hour traffic, instead of
letting them walk or ride the 1km to the school). People on work duty,
ferrying themselves and 0.16 other people on average. The shoppers
attending the local corner store 800 metres down the road, with 1.3 people
in the car. If you got rid of these populations, and put them on bikes
that take 1/6th of the room of a car, that would be a great way to save
people from road rage by easing congestion. Or if we only had a forward
thinking trans****t minister who actually cared about getting a reliable
and complete rail network. But I dream.
--
TimC
The triangle wheel was an improvement upon the square wheel:
It eliminates one bump. -- unknown
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