TRAFFIC FILTERING OK IN NSW

The news that NSW has legitimised traffic filtering just came in.

This is a serious opportunity. Grab it.

If you can get onto the media and/or your MPs office and tell them you want traffic filtering and your want VicRoads to stop delaying the process.

Damien
IRG

Hi

Don't know the local member of Ampang, KL but will get onto my local member in Burwood. 

I wondered if IRG does Press Releases? A blog entry on this along with links to every online channel discussing this would drive traffic to the blog. You can use the blog as a portal and back link all together. 

I will talk with Daniel about this if OK with you. 

Now back to the pool:-)

Adrienne.

Thanks Adrienne.

I gave the staff in my MPs electoral office a sermon on the goodness of traffic filtering and the evils of those procrastinating bureaucrats at VicRoads.

My MP in Box Hill is Robert Clark, the Attorney General. He will get a message from his staff with my letter and the VSRA report on filtering. If the Victorian Government does not control VicRoads/TAC and implement PIMS recommendations Victoria's 326,000 bike licence holders, with their families and friends, will actively campaign to tip Liberals out of marginal seats in the November state election.

Dale Maggs got onto his MPs too. He contacted Federal Member Dan Tehan and the Premier's office.

Steve Bardsley will go to Lorraine Wreford's office today.

Rod Brown has been writing lots of letters.

I urge you all to visit or write to your MP's local office and give them the word. We want the filtering trial, use of bus lanes and the TAC anti-bike tax abolished as Premier Napthine promised.

www.parliament.vic.gov.au/members

If it does not happen by mid year we will lobby against Liberals in marginal seats starting with Seymour. Sitting Liberal Cindy Mcleish is a good MP. Local and touring motorcyclists spend a lot of money in her electorate so we expect Cindy to tell Terry Mulder to pull VicRoads/TAC into line and start implementing PIMS recommendations.

This is not unreasonable. The proof of the benefits to motorcycle & scooter riders and to the wider community is in the PIMS report. What is unreasonable is the anti-bike culture in VicRoads/TAC.

www.parliament.vic.gov.au/rsc/inquiry/293

www.infrastructure.gov.au

Look for the State of Australian Cities report dated 2012. Pages 81, 82 & 83 are on the benefits of motorcycles & scooters in our cities.

Please put this on the facebook pages.

Damien Codognotto OAM
Spokesman
Independent Riders' Group
Melbourne

Feel free to forward on:
http://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/news/press-releases-announcements/2014/nsw-to-start-lane-filtering-on-july-1-now-time-for-other-states-to-%E2%80%98take-a-longer-look%E2%80%99-at-cutting-road-congestion.aspx

Press Releases and Announcements - 27 February 2014
NSW to start lane filtering on July 1: now time for other states to ‘Take a longer look’ at cutting road congestion
Road safety advocates Maurice Blackburn, has welcomed the NSW Government's plan to ease traffic congestion and legalise lane filtering by motorcyclists from 1 July 2014.
"NSW has led the way and others should see the sense in it and do the same," said John Voyage, principal and road safety advocate.
"It is a common sense approach. The Government has successfully trialled this and listened to us and to the many thousands of motorcyclists who say lane filtering is safer for everyone and cuts traffic congestion."
Lane filtering is defined as motorcycles moving between lanes of slow or stationary traffic. A large European study* shows it's safer for riders and it is legal in many other places around the world.
Maurice Blackburn is one of the backers of a ground-breaking online road safety initiative that, together with Australia's motorcycling community, has pushed for filtering with an online campaign and video titled "Take a longer look" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSRY7RxMF1g .
The video has had almost 77,000 views since it was launched in October 2013 and is often used prominently to show with graphics how lane filtering works in action, so that the community understands its economic and safety benefits.
Mr Voyage said it was encouraging that a number of state and territory governments were looking at lane filtering, but they now needed to take the next step and legalise it to reduce confusion among motorists and riders.
"Maurice Blackburn is proud to be supporting a growing campaign for law reform with the Motorcycle Council of NSW and the Australian Motorcycle Council," he said.
"Take a Longer Look" was funded via Australia's riding community who bought Stop SMIDSY t-shirts to fund the project.
*EU Motorcycle Accident Indepth Study (MAIDS) Final Report 2.0 2009.
Background:  http://www.lawyers4riders.com.au/   https://www.facebook.com/stopsmidsy

Feel free to forward on:
http://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/news/press-releases-announcements/2014/nsw-to-start-lane-filtering-on-july-1-now-time-for-other-states-to-%E2%80%98take-a-longer-look%E2%80%99-at-cutting-road-congestion.aspx

Press Releases and Announcements - 27 February 2014
NSW to start lane filtering on July 1: now time for other states to ‘Take a longer look’ at cutting road congestion
Road safety advocates Maurice Blackburn, has welcomed the NSW Government's plan to ease traffic congestion and legalise lane filtering by motorcyclists from 1 July 2014.
"NSW has led the way and others should see the sense in it and do the same," said John Voyage, principal and road safety advocate.
"It is a common sense approach. The Government has successfully trialled this and listened to us and to the many thousands of motorcyclists who say lane filtering is safer for everyone and cuts traffic congestion."
Lane filtering is defined as motorcycles moving between lanes of slow or stationary traffic. A large European study* shows it's safer for riders and it is legal in many other places around the world.
Maurice Blackburn is one of the backers of a ground-breaking online road safety initiative that, together with Australia's motorcycling community, has pushed for filtering with an online campaign and video titled "Take a longer look" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSRY7RxMF1g .
The video has had almost 77,000 views since it was launched in October 2013 and is often used prominently to show with graphics how lane filtering works in action, so that the community understands its economic and safety benefits.
Mr Voyage said it was encouraging that a number of state and territory governments were looking at lane filtering, but they now needed to take the next step and legalise it to reduce confusion among motorists and riders.
"Maurice Blackburn is proud to be supporting a growing campaign for law reform with the Motorcycle Council of NSW and the Australian Motorcycle Council," he said.
"Take a Longer Look" was funded via Australia's riding community who bought Stop SMIDSY t-shirts to fund the project.
*EU Motorcycle Accident Indepth Study (MAIDS) Final Report 2.0 2009.
Background:  http://www.lawyers4riders.com.au/   https://www.facebook.com/stopsmidsy

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