Post #1031472

2026-04-09 06:41 UTC

There&#39;s a very Aussie bit of carbrain that says, if I&#39;ve crashed, or broken down and I need to stop, I can either; pull over on the road and partially block &quot;the traffic&quot;, or I can drive up onto the bike path and completely block the bike path. One of these is a completely reasonable thing for the aussie driver, one is anathema subtoot; yes, I met a massive landcruiser towing a trailer that had driven into and parked inside the &quot;safe, separated bike lane&quot; because &quot;I&#39;m FUC*ING FIXING SOMETHING YA C*NT&quot; #cycling #melbourne

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@ThermiteBeGiants@aus.social 2026-04-09 06:52

@ajft wait, into a separated lane with like, bollards or similar separations above just paint? Surely that’s illegal

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@Steveg58@aus.social 2026-04-09 07:39

@ajft The WA police used to run breathalyser checks on Jon Sanders Drive and any drivers they caught they would direct to pull off of the road onto the separate bike path, completely blocking it.

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@yvan@toot.ale.gd 2026-04-09 08:59

@ajft when I see this sort of thing I like to imagine some sort of special truck that just picks up the vehicle, crushes it on the spot, and delivers it to the registered address. Here in the UK bike lines, sidewalks, footpaths are all just treated as valid parking area that motons have a gods-given right to park on. Nobody does anything about it. Cyclists? Wheelchair uses? Pram pushers? They are nothing versus the self-entitlement of the car driver. (I say this as mostly a car driver myself, but I always park on the vehicle carriageway - where it is safe and legal to do so. This makes me a small minority of drivers thugh.)

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