Use Strava to track speeding cyclists, says Aussie politician

He's just upset that someone stole his KOM.

Isn't a bit dangerous to cycle at only 10kph? I might wobble in the wind and collide with a jogger overtaking me.

All he has to do it flag the offenders and they might get the message when they loose their precious data.

For those of you who haven't followed the link to the Canberra Times article, this little extract from it is a peach:

Quote:

Liberal Steve Doszpot pointed to complaints from inner south residents about cyclists on Alexandrina Drive using the road instead of the shared path. It was impossible for motorists to observe the 1m road clearance rule, with cars backing up behind cyclists. It was an accident waiting to happen, he said.

Director of capital works for city services Ben McHugh said forcing high-speed cyclists off the road on to shared paths with slower users created its own problems, and cyclists had a legal right to use the road.

"A legal right to cause accidents?" Mr Doszpot asked.

Bravo, Mr McHugh.  Take a running jump, Mr Toszpot (sic)

I once picked up the KOM for the steepening at the top of Box Hill.  According to Strava I monstered it at nearly 32 mph - my acceleration from a more restrained pace on the lower slopes must have been something to behold.  I did the decent thing and handed the title back to its rightful owner, Mr Bibby I think.

And Strava is accurate enough to be able to tell if you were on a bike path and which side of the path?

My arse!

Many politicians are guilty of brain farts, the trouble is many of these ill conceived ideas end up being turned into legislation. 

At least this guy owned up and called it out ... "the one who smelt it, dealt it" as my kids would say

I have a ride on Strava which indicates I was riding at 98mph across a field, strangely it was around the time I was having a cardiac arrest, maybe the worry about getting done would have induced another one.

Never did work out what actually happened to the GPS recorder (phonee in rear pocket), never had it happen before or since.

Enforcement shouldn't be a problem either, insurance and/or new car sales should demand the box otherwise not insure!

I've long thought this must be possible.

Also we are constantly getting told that the police force is facing cuts left right and centre... we currently have a network of hundreds of thousands of automated machines that can automatically fine people breaking the law cut speeds and increase road safety...they are just all turned off, makes me' piss boil.

Imagine turning on all the speed cameras and putting that money back into policing, we could have bobbies walking the street in every town within a few years....but no apparently it would offend the motorists.
 

With cars, the tech exists to rather than punish drivers for exceeding the speedlimit, simply stop them from doing so.

With bikes, the onbvious question has to be "are people going fast on bikes killing or injuring people or are those complaining just anti-bike moaners?"

Cool, each car to be fitted with a black box and points issues for breaking the speed limit by 1mph or more. Zero tolerance.