Cyclist booked in Melbourne

I was walking along St Kilda Rd this morning and saw a chick on a bike being
issued a ticket by a motorcycle police officer. She had been pulled over
right in front of the Melburnian and I can only assume that she turned left
into the St Kilda Rd bike lane from the side street next the the Melburnian
and failed to stop at the stop sign. I was hoping that she might get caught
at the lights near the Arts Centre so that I could ask her what she got
booked for but I lucked out.

Anyone in here know who she is and what she was booked for??

Gags

On 2007-09-25, Gags wrote:
I was walking along St Kilda Rd this morning and saw a chick on a bike being
issued a ticket by a motorcycle police officer. She had been pulled over
right in front of the Melburnian and I can only assume that she turned left
into the St Kilda Rd bike lane from the side street next the the Melburnian
and failed to stop at the stop sign. I was hoping that she might get caught
at the lights near the Arts Centre so that I could ask her what she got
booked for but I lucked out.

Anyone in here know who she is and what she was booked for??

Gags

There's been a bit of a ``crackdown'' in the CBD recently. I had a gal
come into work who'd been booked in the CBD for rolling over the line
while stoped at a red light.

And one of the no helmet loonies I know has been booked 3 times in the
last month!

Cheers

Joel

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"Joel Mayes" wrote:
There's been a bit of a ``crackdown'' in the CBD recently. I had a gal
come into work who'd been booked in the CBD for rolling over the line
while stoped at a red light.

Well I hope there's a "crackdown" on all the _hundreds_ of motorists who do
the same thing every day!! Not to mention the _thousands of 'right-turn red'
runners_ all over the city, every day!!

Sheesh!
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Peter

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Joel Mayes Wrote:


There's been a bit of a ``crackdown'' in the CBD recently. I had a gal
come into work who'd been booked in the CBD for rolling over the line
while stoped at a red light.


Just like the crackdown along St Kilda Rd before/during/after the Comms
Games last year.


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On Sep 25, 9:34 pm, "PeteSig" wrote:
"Joel Mayes" wrote:
There's been a bit of a ``crackdown'' in the CBD recently. I had a gal
come into work who'd been booked in the CBD for rolling over the line
while stoped at a red light.

Well I hope there's a "crackdown" on all the _hundreds_ of motorists who do
the same thing every day!! Not to mention the _thousands of 'right-turn red'
runners_ all over the city, every day!!

Sheesh!
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Cheers
Peter

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and the pedestrians crossing against the light at every intersection
and pedestrian crossing in the CBD. Especially @ Flinders Street
Station.

phillip brown

phillip brown wrote:
On Sep 25, 9:34 pm, "PeteSig" wrote:
"Joel Mayes" wrote:
There's been a bit of a ``crackdown'' in the CBD recently. I had a gal
come into work who'd been booked in the CBD for rolling over the line
while stoped at a red light.
Well I hope there's a "crackdown" on all the _hundreds_ of motorists who do
the same thing every day!! Not to mention the _thousands of 'right-turn red'
runners_ all over the city, every day!!

Sheesh!
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Cheers
Peter

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and the pedestrians crossing against the light at every intersection
and pedestrian crossing in the CBD. Especially @ Flinders Street
Station.

phillip brown


Yes everybody who breaks every law should be booked everytime (not just
having a go at you here Phillip). And we should have a police force of
100,000 to achieve this. Or they can do the various blitzes to raise
some of these things in the public consciousness and hopefully the
message sticks.

daveB

On 2007-09-25, PeteSig wrote:

"Joel Mayes" wrote:
There's been a bit of a ``crackdown'' in the CBD recently. I had a gal
come into work who'd been booked in the CBD for rolling over the line
while stoped at a red light.

Well I hope there's a "crackdown" on all the _hundreds_ of motorists who do
the same thing every day!! Not to mention the _thousands of 'right-turn red'
runners_ all over the city, every day!!

Sheesh!

What! The police treat motorist and bicyclist equally!

:-)


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Joel Mayes wrote:

What! The police treat motorist and bicyclist equally!

:-)

Good Lord no. There's much more money to be made from motorists, and you
don't need any expensive personal interaction. Flash for cash and your
points are in the mail.

They actually have to stop and talk to a cyclist, handwrite a ticket, get
the details entered into the computer back in the office. How inefficient is
that?

Theo

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Bicycle registration and numberplates is the obvious answer, but how
to mount the front one for forward facing speed cameras?

Oh ****, sound the claxon!


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wrote:
Theo Bekkers wrote:

Good Lord no. There's much more money to be made from motorists, and
you don't need any expensive personal interaction. Flash for cash
and your points are in the mail.

They actually have to stop and talk to a cyclist, handwrite a
ticket, get the details entered into the computer back in the
office. How inefficient is that?

Bicycle registration and numberplates is the obvious answer, but how
to mount the front one for forward facing speed cameras?

When I was a teenager I paid rego, 2/6 or 25 cents in todays terminology,
more than a week's pocket money. The single plate was mounted on the
crossbar. The only cameras around were Box Brownies.

Theo