Sandic49, don't feel sorry for cops. Many years ago we respected the police. As young men if we erred we might even get a clip around the ear, but then sent on our way with a smile and a word of encouragement.

The country cops were the best. We got to know them on a first name basis and we felt we were upsetting a relative or someone close to us if we did something wrong.

Today's pigs' I would not even stop to assist if I saw one getting his priorities re-arranged.

Since they have become tax collectors and decided to enforce these 'nanny' laws, they have alienated themselves from the community and unless they change their arrogant and distant attitude they will become targets. I believe it has already begun.

Just to prove my point the stupid law makers and their stupid laws come up with;

Keep at least one metre away from cyclists.

What fools came up with that one? OK if that's the case when I am parked on the side of the road and open my door and send one of these morons flying under the wheels of a passing car, and he dies. Don't say it was my fault.

Why are law makers so stupid. A bicycle at best travels at speeds well below any motorised vehicle, so they should have been directed to back streets where there is no traffic. Or on appropriate cycle-ways along side most main roads.

It's not bad enough that we have rubbish trucks, road sweepers, buses and a myriad of other obstructions on our roads already, to put more and ones as vulnerable as cyclists is beyond stupid.

I for one will not be changing my driving style to accommodate another idiot foolish enough to tangle with fast moving structures weighing many times more than them and thinking they are invincible in some way. And I'm not alone. So think before you get on that bike, if you mix it with me I know I'll be going home that day, can you say the same for yourself?

Some authorities are really stupid.
There is a local road with double lines and all day parking but it is
not possible to clear the parked cars and not put your right wheels
over the double lines.
Some parked cars have their mirrors turned in but not all.
My mirrors have kissed the parked cars mirrors on occasion.
I always flash my headlights as I pass because there is always a lot
of traffic going in the opposite direction.
Now who is to blame there ?
If I was booked I would stop my car and block traffic saying I cannot
legally proceed. I would then be booked for blocking traffic !

Bazz, it is worth knowing that under the road traffic act, and because you pay a registration fee, it allows your car to travel, unrestricted, along a govt gazetted road.

Depending on the state, there are minimum width or clearance stipulated by law. Generally it is 3 metres because commercial vehicles (trucks) are 2.5 metres wide.

So if a licensed truck cannot travel along a govt gazetted road, then in your example the shire is guilty of denying you and other road users the right to clear and unencumbered travel on that road. They are in contravention of the act.

I have exactly the same problem here in my street. We live near a school and at pick up time our street turns into a car park. I have notified the shire more than once explaining the problem.

The morons simply replied with, 'according to their road engineers, it is possible to park in the street without restricting traffic or blocking flow'.

I have explained the the road is 6 metres wide, if we take two trucks at 2.5 metres wide each, parking on opposite sides of the road it leaves us with 1 metre access. A motorcycle would have trouble getting through.

The response was, no one would park in such a manner so my argument was not valid.

What they ignorantly refuse to understand is that it's not my argument but the road traffic act. I have yet to roll the act up into a nice tight little scroll and revisit this matter in person, in due course.

This fact then also brings into question the stupid ill-conceived law on bicycles. On many roads with double white centre lines, if we have parked cars AND a cyclist, legally your stuck behind this sh!p head for as long as. And I mean you and twenty other cars.

These are the things that piss me off about this country and then I hear some twat go on about what a great country this is to live in.
Where does he live? Under a rock?

actually for the benefit lights add to awareness during the day, I would suggest the rare amount of times they shine in rear view mirrors is a very small price to pay.

rehctub,

Headlights shining in rear view mirrors are not rare, but a continuous fact of life on any of our highways,
Many people put their interior mirror onto night view thus restricting their view and causing a further hazard.

As far as lights on in the daytime goes to increasing awareness, the idea comes from Europe where cars traveling at high speed put their lights on during the day, circumstances that do not pertain to Australia.

Back in the 1970s there was an appeal, one long weekend, for drivers to put their headlights on as a safety measure, as a consequence the road toll went up.

Is mis, we will agree to disagree I think.