Bob* was riding across the Kurilpa Bridge into the city on a quiet school holiday Friday morning, also coincidentally World Car-Free Day, when … BAM, he was $464 poorer.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    He was nabbed at 26km/h

    That’s absolutely hooning considering it’s a shared space, I suspect he only got a ticket because of that.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah. This basically sounds like you’re supposed to dismount and walk across the bridge. The pictures in the article show a walkway shared between pedestrians and cyclists going in both directions. It doesn’t look wide enough to be doing 26km/h if there are pedestrians and cyclists about going in both directions.

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      1 year ago

      26 kph or 16 mph is not a difficult speed to hit on a bike, especially if you are in good shape. I am not in particularly good shape and I cruise even on my mountain bike around that speed. If the path is crowded and I’m dodging people, sure I’d slow down considerably, but who’s to say they didn’t clock him when he had some free air between groups of pedestrians.

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      1 year ago

      I admittedly didn’t read the article, but that’s faster than I expected from the headline. The title makes it seem like he was at a crawl, but now I’m like, which joggers were running faster than 16MPH?