PartA
been doing some digging.... here be-eth a snippet in scandalous terms:-
let no one kid them selves that this "initiative" allegedly by Frankston Plod Stn is about safety...it isnt.
it is aimed purely at the Black Rock Ride, no one else .
The BRR is generally escorted by Police (not from Frankston) and is followed by a marked car especially up the Hill, and the probability of the BRR being rear ended by a speeding motorist whilst ascending the hill is nil, nadda, zip... they know that ...we know that....
here entereth the person with most to gain if the BRR is stopped for good...and people who know stuff have tossed this off the truck and its seems to have landed near someone's java.....
Scenario: believe it if you will, credible YES, publicly verifiable on evidence that will stand up to scrutiny...probably not...
There is notion ( source says it's fact) that someone in the decision making area of VP (and most assurredly this is not an Asst Comm), has their nose out of joint, and their nuts on the line over other issues and (thus that person is now) resorting to clutching at straws.... and adopted a bullying approach in the hope that knowing their anger management is not controlled all that well, is trying to use a possibly ( dubious) legal device to get the BRR to end and be the hero in the eyes of a political ally.
This said "out of control" public servant is hoping to say "I succeeded in ridding the SEast of the scourge of the so called "hell ride" when all others have failed."
makes sense...will said devious person succeed, probably not...hopefully said deviate will get nuts frimly squashed in nut cracker at christmas nut crushing time and all will be well in the land of snowless beachside rides.
The BRR will get around this bump, it will not go away and it will be around long after said "irrriot" has left the force.
Ride on brothers and sisters, ride safe, ride hard, ride legal...but ride!
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PartB
I have offered a suggestion to some folks who matter, and it is this...
if there is a perceived danger on Olivers ( or anywhwere in Victoria for that matter) about fast traffic stiking a slow vehicle, then manage traffic speed potential, not by removing slow vehicles, but by slowing and curtailing dangerous speeding driving.... and at said location how is that achieved...
suggestion1 :
place a fixed speed radar camera at the (section near the service station at the northern side) approach (to Olivers Hill)-thus for traffic heading south out of Frankston and UP towards Ollivers Hill.
Make it the type they use on the highways in NSW, a HUGE box thing that is so enormous if you miss it you are so blind drunk it wouldnt matter.... every driver would approach the hill at below 60kph and with such trepidation that accidents ( which rarely if ever happen on the southwards journey up the hill at this time anyway) would dissappear off the stats book for the duration of time.
Example of similar situation and management thereof: If you know Sexton's Hill at South Tweed Heads in Far North NSW, this is what they have there, speed camera for traffic approaching and heading UP hill, yes uphill....a formerly notoriously accident prone serious of bends on a hill ( cars running into head on traffic, cars flipping from speeding around turns going up hill, trucks running into cars...you know the usual bogan activity that cars and motorised vehicles get up to!)
that rise has been reduced to a nicely managed well behaved road section ( which bikes ride up every day and it is every bit as nasty to a rider as Olivers could ever be, worse in fact, a bit higher and a wee bit longer and curving (a double S curve).
so we will see what happens down on the peninsula in the fullness of time... but don't hold your breath
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PartC
There are always solutions to problems, they are not arrived at by exclusion , but by rational, sensible, apolitical assessment, measure, reasoning, and judgment, and a little bit of psychology, cunning and knowing that hip pocket nerve is a very good deterrant to redknecks, revheads, hoons and doodlepits.
If a serious outcome results one day, it was going to happen anyway and no amount of manegement or preventative action would prevent it...
goodnight....
catcha in BrisVegas if you are up ther eover the next weekish... hopefully get in a few BRs and some nice hills around Tambourine and Tomewin
cheers all