CAN is meeting with Superintendant Paula Rose, Police National Road Safety manager on 24 June: a great chance to discuss with the Police some important issues affecting cyclists.
Please post any comments or suggestions for the meeting. Draft agenda is below:
- Reducing speed limit enforcement tolerance
- Light sentences or decision not to prosecute for drivers hitting cyclists
- Changing the assumption of responsibility in motor vehicle/cycle crashes
- Legal/enforcement issues, including how far left is 'keep left'?, 'undertaking' motorists on the left, safe passing gap
- Traffic Management Plans: when are they needed?
- Police 'Cycle Aware' training workshops: possibility of Police HQ endorsement for national roll-out of Wellington course
- Road Safety 2010 revision
- Police on bikes
- Cycle skills/safety training: current Police involvement & vision for the future
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