ajft [SEC=continvoucly morged]

There's a very Aussie bit of carbrain that says, if I've crashed, or broken down and I need to stop, I can either; pull over on the road and partially block "the traffic", or I can drive up onto the bike path and completely block the bike path. One of these is a completely reasonable thing for the aussie driver, one is anathema

subtoot; yes, I met a massive landcruiser towing a trailer that had driven into and parked inside the "safe, separated bike lane" because "I'm FUC*ING FIXING SOMETHING YA C*NT"

#cycling #melbourne

Apr 9 at 6:41amWeb
Show threadJustified Ancient of Moomin2d ago
@ajft wait, into a separated lane with like, bollards or similar separations above just paint? Surely that’s illegal
Show threadajft [SEC=continvoucly morged]2d ago

@ThermiteBeGiants bi-directional separated bike path; it has a 20cm high concrete wall separating it from the road, *but* there are cut-throughs so that the owners of the houses on the inside can get to their driveways, and one at the very end because we shall all grow old and grey waiting until VicRoads put the crossing part of it through the Atkinson St/Dandenong Rd

About once a month i meet a crashed, broken down, or "just visiting" driver who goes in one of the cut-throughs, turns ninety degrees to nicely drive up the bike lane, and parks because its convenient for them

edit: of course its illegal. But carbrain

Show threadJustified Ancient of Moomin2d ago
@ajft honestly at this point I wonder if calling the cops on “an aggressive driver stopped in a roadway” would be the only thing that would make these pricks think twice
Show threadajft [SEC=continvoucly morged]2d ago

@ThermiteBeGiants I suspect that the turnaround on having our wonderful police force turning up is of the order of an hour, by which time old mate has long vanished

I've been _hit_ by drivers at that corner and cops refused to take a report because "we can't take a report if you do not require medical attention" (lying words of lying copper), and apparently (additional lying words of lying copper) "the mandatory passing law only applies if we witness it" - big red mark on the back of my arm didn't count

#ACAB, oakleigh ones doubly so

Show threadSteveg582d ago
@ajft
The WA police used to run breathalyser checks on Jon Sanders Drive and any drivers they caught they would direct to pull off of the road onto the separate bike path, completely blocking it.
Show threadYvan2d ago

@ajft when I see this sort of thing I like to imagine some sort of special truck that just picks up the vehicle, crushes it on the spot, and delivers it to the registered address.

Here in the UK bike lines, sidewalks, footpaths are all just treated as valid parking area that motons have a gods-given right to park on. Nobody does anything about it.

Cyclists? Wheelchair uses? Pram pushers? They are nothing versus the self-entitlement of the car driver.

(I say this as mostly a car driver myself, but I always park on the vehicle carriageway - where it is safe and legal to do so. This makes me a small minority of drivers thugh.)