Originally Posted by
hrt4me
Bicycle Victoria recently had its lawyers help one cyclist who was fined for passing a tram under the new laws get off on a technicality.
But the lobby group - which received about 12 per cent of its $11.8 million in funding last year from the state government - says it is right that cyclists now face serious fines.
Spokesman Garry Brennan said that if bicycle riders wanted equal treatment on the road, they had to accept equal responsibility.
They should be ''prepared to cop equivalent fines to other road users if it means we are accorded the full rights we are entitled to under the law,'' Mr Brennan said.
When are the
other road users going to be required to accept equal responsibility for wearing head protection at all times when operating a vehicle on the road? After all ''It is the most fundamental safety rule.''
With a lobby group "spokesman" and "bicycle safety"enforcement like this, bicycling doesn't need letter to the editor writers and Internet wackos posting "comments" to blogs to profess wingnut ideas.