trailgumby wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 2:19 pm
Comedian wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 9:32 am
Janice wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 8:17 am
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/set ... l#comments
Speed and power caps on electric bikes should be lifted to increase their takeup as a viable transport solution, reduce road traffic and boost cargo delivery efficiency.
A NSW Productivity Commission paper has called for a national review of the laws relating to electric bicycles. It suggests that removing modest speed caps would improve road safety, given many of the bikes are being illegally and dangerously converted without regulation.
Thanks for sharing. It's interesting - if enough people break the law then it's easier to change the law than to address the issues.
I'm pretty darn sure this is what the whole scooter industry is hoping for.
From one perspective, it demonstrates evidence of demand.
We are in the same boat with unsanctioned mountain bike trails in Sydney's northern beaches. We have been told by consultants employed by NPWS that unsanctioned trails are required and used as evidence of demand. NPWS desperately wants to increase visitation, and mountain bikers are a key visitor group, but they have no funds for trail building. So consequently, they turn a blind eye and have scaled back investigation and enforcement, with a view to later auditing and sanctioning the trails that are built.
The downside is that a lot of trails get built in EEC zones and other areas where they should not be, due to lack of communication. But if we don't build and ride these unsanctioned trails, there is no evidence of demand. Caught between a rock and a hard place.
Same with these PMDs I guess.
Not really. Evidence of trail demand is a thing.
PMD's capable of 60, 80, and even 100kph is not something that I think is comparable. One is demand issue - the other a significant safety issue.
Most PMD's in QLD are legal to own, but illegal to use. The shops know they are selling products that are illegal to use. The people buying them also know they are illegal to use.
I went to a "roundtable" last week. I do know the scooter advocates were seeking to get the speed limit for PMD's raised to 40 before the meeting. Strangely though.. it might have been the talk by the Jameson Trauma institute.. where on ER doctor said that just his ER at one hospital were a number of admissions a day due to PMD crashes. And not trivial ones either. I dunno .. but the scooter advocates didn't seem to mention it.. I should note that many of these crashes were due to commercial PMD, but we've had a number of private PMD's involved in deaths in the last few months.
I mean have a listen to the Jameson guy talk. 800 admissions in 15 months across three hospitals in BNE. Are illegal trails causing anything like this?
I can understand why people in other states can't understand what we're seeing up here. Due to law changes and a lack of enforcement by QPS QLD really is the scooter capital of Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/brisbane/p ... s/13618866