Gimmie some of that ‘bootloader blue’ slurpee

“There’s a short space in which to deal with it” is a reason to post something substantive, not to post anything and everything you can find that might have brushed on the topic in some way.

What your doing is low quality fear mongering.

And you’d do best to remember quantity of posts doesnt make a quality argument, and at some point it just is a trolling campaign rather than a genuine concern.

But there’s not convincing trolls like you, so back under the bridge you go, whinging about ebikes.

I hope you do own an ebike, the legislation passes and you get booked breaking the rules on day one. ¯|_ (ツ)_/¯

Are you getting a kick back or something?

4 posts on the same topic in like 24 hrs, in addition to the 6 posts again on the same topic over the last week or so?.

And yet youre quick to accuse others of trolling…

100 bikes that no riders own, but instead pay to rent, meanwhile one billionaire makes a fortune

As SaveTheTuaHawk said add gst

Bust also whilst the conversion rate on XE might be less you can’t convert currency at that price, once you add in conversion fees that will also increase the price.

Damn, you should buy a pepsi

Your $5.08 coffee with surcharge will now be $5.20 without

I too have a train!

I agreed there was a federal lobby, just not a qld one

So that’s a ‘I have nothing to back up my argument, I was just ranting without researching’ response.

Thanks for clarifying.

Yes it was a poor choice of words on my part, I was going off what you said, and yes I assumed that by petrol lobbys that you were talking automotive lobby groups, which all my points relate to… I assumed this because as I said there aren’t petrol lobby groups in qld, or at least none that I know of.

When you doubled down I carrified the difference.

Do you care to clarrify which petrol lobby groups are influencing this legislation? Or does my point still stand that there aren’t any, and your remark about the fact it’s thier legislation is ‘fake news’ fearmongering

All I’ll say to this is that on foot is primarily walking.

Will you come across some runners sure, but get out there and count them. You’ll be suprised at how outnumbered they are compared to walkers.

But you live in your little circle where you scream at the government going this is BS, because some pedestrians run these rules are wrong. Ignoring the vast vast vast majority that are walking and slow, sometimes elderly and wobble on thier feet, sometimes pushing a pram or herding little kids, let me speed past them as fast as I can.

And regarding the bikeways, they’ve said there is provision to increase speed limits on some ways these will be updated and you won’t have to do 10km/h on them.

Your arguments are the exact argument that motorists that ride cyclists off the road use. You are litterally in the same camp as them, I wanna go as fast as I want and no cyclist pedestrian is gonna get in my way. Stop fearmongering and share the footpaths.

What petrol lobby? We have like 1 or 2 at the federal level, but I’m unaware of any operating in qld?

They aren’t the most influential here cos we don’t have a petrol industry.

Leaving mostly automotive lobby groups, which there are a few and these do operate in qld. But the aren’t advocating for ‘get more cars on the road’

Correct and because they can’t patrol it they are building a new way to force compliance.

The people currently doing the wrong thing through rentals etc will now not have the ability to break the law. And a lot of the hoons I see now are on these rentals, much less are on thier own gear.

And mate your stretching the truth there (almost as much a Murdoch media) people cannot walk at 10km/h. People typically walk at like 4 mabes 5km/h, not the 11+ km/h you are alleging.

And I think we’re just gonna have to agree to disagree here, I see your point about 90% of this is footpaths, but in my view that supports this legislation, these are FOOTpaths ie holding pedestrian traffic, the vast majority of the time your gonna encounter someone walking to the bus, or carrying some groceries home on this footpaths, strolling at a casual pace and they don’t deserve to have some escooter, without notice, wipe them out.

But the petrol lobbys don’t want this, they want less cars so it’s easier to drive and park?

I disagree, those groups hate having to share the road with push cyclists, let alone scooters and ebikes

I’m sorry but this doesn’t make sense to me and I am actually struggling to see why some of this legislation is a bad thing.

As someone who is frequently a pedestrian, out walking/running everyday having scooters fly past like they own the joint at 40km/h is dangerous.

Proposing to license users so they know the road rules to me makes sense to keep everyone safe. Else well have a tonne of 14 year olds with no understanding of road rules riding (unlimited) amongst cars. Also consider top speeds today will only increase tomorrow, it’s likely we aren’t far off these bikes getting to actual car like speeds.

Kids can ride ebikes to school, yes, speed limited and on the footpaths.

Yes you will be speed limited on footpaths, because it’s dangerous having unlimited speed bikes and scooters hooning past mostly walking traffic, and when sharing the footpath, they’ll still be traveling double what most people walk.

I agree that there’s a lot of people that ride considerately, slowing down in high ped traffic areas and only accelerating when its safe to do so. However for each of them there’s 3 absolute fkwits who speed through plazas and on narrow walkways whilst pedestrians dart out of the way. Unfortunately society can only walk as fast as our slowest person, which in this case is these fkwits.

It’s the same reason we have ridiculous car speed limits in some areas, most will go ‘this is a bit dangerous I should slow down a bit’ whilst one idiot will accelerate to 80km/h in the wet and take out a young family.

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