Comment on Police issue warning after cyclists hit wire strung across Southern Expressway bike path
CTDummy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Are there not cameras all along these expressways? In Brisbane I was pulled over on a motorway/expressway to report a hazard to whatever 13-xx number it was and the operator was able to locate me in seconds on camera. Should strip the license of any of these chucklefucks when they get caught. I should pull my bike out of storage and start cycling more now I think of it.
Baku@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
There probably are, although I’m not from SA and didn’t pay any attention while I was there. But the bike path isn’t directly next to the freeway for the whole length.
Lots of sections have gaps like this between the road and the bike path:
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They probably have cameras on the road, but I find it unlikely they’d have cameras along more than 5% of the bike path, if even that.
And just curious, what do you think suspending their license would do, and why do you think that’s the correct response? It said one of the wires was strung near a footbridge, so whoever’s doing this might not even have a license. Could literally just be a group of idiot children that think this is funny. Not that that makes it any better, just confused because I don’t see how attempted murder possibly not even facilitated (let alone commited) with a car justifies suspending a license?
CTDummy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Ahh fair enough, it was probably a motorway I was pulled over on.
More ironic punishment as the people I know irl who hate bike riders with fervour are large Ute driving bogans. So the mental image of them losing a license for fucking with people they view as “taking up the road” (despite bike paths) was too hard to pass up. Though you’re right, it’s insufficient for what could be a life endangering injury.