A thousand internet dollars to you kind sir!find_bruce wrote:Learned opinions come at a cost, while the deranged rants of a semi-anonymous person on te interwebs remains appropriately priced
Yeah, seems only the 12 to 16s - or their parents at least - would be out of pocket (and the minority of adults without a DL). Suppose they could start charging for all class add-ons to licenses though, for a true vote winner.find_bruce wrote:Licencing & rego are legally easy because for the most part it would consist of a new class of licence & vehicle. There have been reports that the RMS has considered this at the request of Drunken, however the "sources" from his "roundtable" were that this would mean the revenue raised at a reasonable cost would mean the changes lose money. Despite the protestations of the "I pay rego" nutters, drivers licences & registration fees barely cover the cost of the RMS. As AUbicycles says, one of the issues arising is the hiding & suppressing of information, including the gagging anyone who participated in the "roundtable". [edit] Details of the costings are here.[/edt]
I did wonder about Mike's iphone license idea, especially for the easy picking, helmet offences which cause millions of deaths everywhere else in the world. Would have seemed ripe for some photoshop savvy individual to make a profitable little business on the side.find_bruce wrote:But if the Police can already do that, why is it difficult? Or more fundamentally, why was it needed ? To me the difficulty arises because Drunken wanted to limit acceptable photo ID to a (a) drivers licence or (b) photo card issued by the RMS thus implementing photo ID as a proxy for a bicycle licence.
Definitely something I'll remember to bear in mind!find_bruce wrote:BTW if a lawyer you are paying for ever says "that's an interesting question", run away! It means the answer is uncertain & finding out is going to cost large sums.