Mr Purple wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2025 10:57 am
On my 20km commute home yesterday there was plenty of evidence that the police had given up.
In order:
- Two teenagers in school uniforms on home brewed electric mountainbikes doing 50km/hr+ uphill without pedalling on the footpath.
- Some guy on a two stroke dirt bike without lights, indicators or plates flying down the median strip at over 70km/hr.
- A methy looking thin gentleman on an oversized e-scooter doing 70km/hr+ without a helmet along a major road running a red light and almost being taken out by turning traffic.
- A guy on a 'Surron' style electric dirt bike (without plates, lights or indicators again) just riding along in traffic on the same major road as if he had every right to be there.
Their chance of being caught is obviously so close to zero they just don't seem to care anymore. Not sure why any of us even bother registering our cars or having licences if this is the way things are going.
Emphasis added.
I fear that in Australia, Policing has become a very very difficult profession because of conflicting political and bureaucratic processes.
A bit like how Teaching and Doctoring have become increasingly difficult.
Remember, in Qld it’s a Police SERVICE, not a Police FORCE.
That “change” was made some years ago.
But the Qld Government used the Police Service very intensively during the COVID years as a tool to create border closures and make the people of Qld feel like they were in good hands.
It just goes to show that when there is a Political purpose to be served, enough Police will be used to achieve the Government’s objectives.
But there is no political “gain” for the Qld government to have a crackdown on illegal e-vehicles and unlicensed vehicle operators.
It’s probably useful to the Government that it’s a patchy issue across the State (and Nation).
Mainly affecting the more densely populated areas in the South East of Qld.
So regional Politicians probably don’t see it as an issue to get their knickers in a knot over.
Meanwhile the Qld Gov is probably clutching at delusional straws hoping that their Seatbelt and Mobile Phone camera technologies are going to improve the State’s road safety “statistics”
This is unlikely.
And the sad irony is that as people discover that they can get away with using unregistered e-vehicles then the cameras are going to be a bit redundant
