Ho do we support this?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/bike-owners-taken-for-ride/2008/06/14/1213321683781.html

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:18:55 +1000

What bit of that do you think is in question?

Zebee

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:18:55 +1000
Thomas Houseman

What bit of that do you think is in question?

Zebee

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:04:50 +1000

Ah! I thought the subject was "do we support this"

To support it, tell pollies you do.

write to the Minister for Roads, Roozendaal, saying that you think it
is important that he do something to reduce congestion on Sydney roads
and he should be encouraging motorcycle use for single person
journeys. Use real paper and stamp because it scares the shit out of
pollies if people care enough to spend 55c. (The federal transport
minister has apparently been quite shocked by the number of Actual
Letters he's been getting about motorcycles.)

Also send a letter to your local state member. Tell them that it is
important that they support lower tolls for bikes because of the
petrol squeeze and the mess the public transport is in. You can add a
bit of "unhappy that the Labor party isn't doing more" and that works
whichever party they are

Send mail to the Shooter's Party guy too. He's someone the govt wants
on side badly, so now's the time to get on his list.

Also, think about protest possibilities.

A successful protest is a difficult thing. It has to:
- get media attention. Which means be photogenic.
- get the right media attention. Which means not violent, not ugly,
difficult to spin as "evil bikies" or "selfish bikies". IF they
can get a pic of someone behaving badly they will run that...
- inconvenience politicians. Embarass them. Make them try and
wriggle out of it and make the wriggling obvious
- not piss off anyone else. If "ordinary people" are hurt then that's
how the media will spin it, and it will be the bikers fault not the
pollies.

Something funny is good. Media friendly, funny, to the point. If you
can work out something like that you'll be gold!

Zebee

 

Must admit, I was tempted to reply with, why should I support "Bike
owners taken for ride"?

Bill

 

Iactually had an idea about a non violent, photogenic, protest that would be
a huge inconvenience to the pollies, and theoretically entirely within the
law

But im not sure how it could be pulled off

Get enough riders together, suited and booted, figure out where the
approaches are to their parking at parliament house, and just get the riders
to consistently ride past the driveway, preventing them from legally turning
across the riders paths.

admittedly, this would be a logistical nightmare, not to mention hazardous,
however, it would make a big impact

another idea would be to put a heap of bikes thru the cash only toll lanes
during peak hour, with nothing but 50 dollar notes, full stop, dismount,
remove gloves, remove wallet, pay, demand receipt, replace wallet, replace
gloves, remount, ride off. Would probably back the approaches to the bridge
for about 3 hours if it was possible to get enough bikes in one spot

Shadow

 

And may the Force be with you...