Operation Halo Final Results (Victoria)

[martinjs]

Seems the Vic police are being even handed! lol

http://www.amygillett.org.au/operation- ... al-results

As part of the operation, police detected:

607 pedestrian offences
• 555 disobey traffic light or sign

613 bicycle offences
• 351 fail to wear helmet
• 40 ride on footpath
• 184 disobey traffic lights or signs

429 motorcycle offences
• 165 ride in bicycle lane
• 31 disobey traffic lights or signs
• 15 fail to give signal

4716 car/truck offences
• 650 disobey traffic lights or signs
• 1509 use mobile phone
• 61 drive in bicycle lane
• 21 diverge when unsafe
• 26 fail to give way

Martin

[Mulger bill]

Even handed is good, very good.

Nice work by the bike squad too, running down a naughty boy in an unreg car

[find_bruce]

Interesting results that would seem to run contrary to the perceptions commonly reported in the mass media

[Aushiker]

Interesting results that would seem to run contrary to the perceptions commonly reported in the mass media

That was my thought as well.

Andrew

[newbikeorupgrade]

You could catch at least 1000 cars a day in the bicycle lanes I sometimes ride in...