One speeding motorist breaks the law ……
One carless bicyclest breaks the law ……
Short slippery slope on new laws for all our problems.

I think part of the problem is our reluctance to actually stop and examine the laws we pass. Australia seems to have this bad habit of just increasing penalties and fines if people don’t follow the rules.

I’m not saying we need to legalise not wearing a seatbelt or running red lights but for example take a look at speeding. Cameras and lower speed limits haven’t really stopped idiots speeding now have they, in that sense the deterrents fail.

Instead of just wiping another 10km/h of the limit and installing 39,000 new speed cameras we should look at the laws themselves and try and understand how they are or aren’t working. We could learn a lot from the international community in this respect. I mean we adopt so much foreign culture and ideas anyway so why not get something useful out of it.