[AusNOG] Brumby's proposed Under 25 Driving Curfew

[Daniel Hood]

I for one, hate Lovely Lady Justice and her Senior Officers of "Voluntary"
Taxing and Revenue Raising lately. I live in VIC and they don't really have
any love for P Platers or any other drivers under 25 at this very moment.

I must admit, I wore P's for the first 4 months of my sentence (known a
Probationary License) and got 5 road fines including 3 speeding, 1
tailgating an L plater (I'm only guilty of this one) and 1 failure to stop
for a red light. As soon as I took my P's down off my backwindow (I still
have my one at the front, but its fairly un-seeable) I have had no fines for
almost a year and a half. (Except one for excessive speeding, reckless
endangerment and general stupidity... Moral of the story, don't pop a mono
inbetween an undercover cop car and your mate's car who you are currently
street racing on your japo sports bike).

We had this discussion a couple of days ago on one of the motorbike forums I
frequent. The main point against this was "But then I'll have to drink drive
to pick up pizza's and more beer, since no delivery kids will be working at
4am".

I believe they are going to make it so that you can get a "work pass". So if
you can get a certificate or not signed from your employer saying "My
employee NEEDS to be out at these times" (and I'm sure as techies, we can
get one for all hours of the night) and if you get pulled over your employer
is happy to take a call, then you won't get fined.

Daniel

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Andrew Fort <afort at choqolat.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Karl Kloppenborg <karl at karltec.net>
> wrote:
> > Hey Noggers,
> > Bit of a debate here, so Brumby has proposed to have an under 25 driving
> > curfew,
>
> Don't worry, as mentioned by the parties interviewed in that article
> in the bogan press (Herald Sun) it's political suicide, so he won't do
> that.  Similar with the additional demerit points.
>
> <joke>
> Perhaps castration as a penalty for drivers who speed past open tram
> doors is a better approach to reducing the bogan hordes?
>
> > but hang on, you and me alike we depend on this mode of transport at the
> > most late or early of hours, absolutely around the clock?
>
> Seriously?  Cabcharge vouchers.  It's faster when there's heavy
> traffic (unless you like driving in bus lanes), for one.
>
> > Last time I checked my servers didn't ask me if I would be busy or able
> to
> > attend before they go down?!?!
>
> They certainly didn't require you to own or operate a car, either.
>
> > I am under 25, what happens when I tell my work, sorry as your sys admin
> > after 11PM I can't fix anything that goes down or... oh sh1t!!! Karl we
> need
> > you at the DC right away... sorry guys I can't because its past my
> > "curfew"..
> > What would my works response be? hrrm...
>
> They would (be required to) give you Cabcharge vouchers.  See my
> comments on this being political suicide, mostly due to attitudes like
> the one you're stating.  As traffic in your town gets worse, I see not
> having to operate a car as a definite health, sanity and financial
> benefit.  Think outside the car you live in.
>
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