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as it says in the title , this is a petition about lane filtering


http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/defi...ering.html

Anyone know how this is going?

I remember years ago a leading Brit bike mag asked all of the area Police forces in Britain what their attitude was to lane filtering. Practically all the responses were surprisingly what we would want - they have better things to do, as long as it's being done safely, not at 70mph, most didn't even know it was illegal etc... but then the mag got hammered by all the other mags for highlighting the practice to every cop up and down land.

I've pittered pattered by cop cars in traffic queues at red lights (literally slower than walking pace until the light goes green), they've never seemed bothered in Sydney or the Blue Mountains.

Also got stopped for doing 100kph through the Woodford twisties after 11.00 at night. They followed me for the 2-3km and gave me a friendly warning because I slowed down once the twisties were over and they figured I was just having a bit of responsible fun on a bike built for it (only 20kph over). Stay polite and give yourself a chance...unless it's the highway cops - they can't stand anybody 98% of the time.

(13-08-2011, 07:43pm)Throwdown! Wrote: [ -> ]Anyone know how this is going?

I remember years ago a leading Brit bike mag asked all of the area Police forces in Britain what their attitude was to lane filtering. Practically all the responses were surprisingly what we would want - they have better things to do, as long as it's being done safely, not at 70mph, most didn't even know it was illegal etc... but then the mag got hammered by all the other mags for highlighting the practice to every cop up and down land.

I've pittered pattered by cop cars in traffic queues at red lights (literally slower than walking pace until the light goes green), they've never seemed bothered in Sydney or the Blue Mountains.

Also got stopped for doing 100kph through the Woodford twisties after 11.00 at night. They followed me for the 2-3km and gave me a friendly warning because I slowed down once the twisties were over and they figured I was just having a bit of responsible fun on a bike built for it (only 20kph over). Stay polite and give yourself a chance...unless it's the highway cops - they can't stand anybody 98% of the time.

Without intending to hijack this short thread, the issue is as much the nanny laws as the sort of people now being recruited to the police farce. In WA they are pushing a cadet scheme; this fills me with terror, as impressionable kids are to be inducted into a 'culture' and do not have any defences based on life experience to fall back on.

I filter all the time.

It is technically not illegal in Qld, as long as you:

- do it slowly, through stopped traffic;
- do not cross an unbroken white line;
- use your blinkers.

And that is from a Qld cop.

(13-08-2011, 08:32pm)Belzybob Wrote: [ -> ]Without intending to hijack this short thread, the issue is as much the nanny laws as the sort of people now being recruited to the police farce. In WA they are pushing a cadet scheme; this fills me with terror, as impressionable kids are to be inducted into a 'culture' and do not have any defences based on life experience to fall back on.

Well said, Belzy. - As bad as the average copper is now, just wait another 10 years and see what kind of brainwashed, jackbooted fascists are on the streets. The NSW Police Force is already a government-sponsored criminal gang...

I don't think this is a good idea, because at the moment most coppers don't know what to book you for and subsequently will usually leave you alone. If they don't legitimize it and they have a definition of it then I can see more people getting tickets for it.

(14-08-2011, 05:40pm)John Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think this is a good idea, because at the moment most coppers don't know what to book you for and subsequently will usually leave you alone. If they don't legitimize it and they have a definition of it then I can see more people getting tickets for it.

One of our locals got done by a Policewoman for filtering and was charged with "passing on the left", a fine. Don't know if it involved points. I think it comes down to whether you're seen doing this by General Duties plod - they have far too much paperwork to get through without adding you to their list, as long as it's done slowly and not through moving traffice. Do it in front of any Traffic member and pay the consequences. These guys have a spectacular lack of humour, mind you, most of them are pretty reasonable blokes and girls, away from their duties.