Motorcycles are a "Legitimate form of transport"!

[klingon]

Lemon trees do well planted on top of bodies. Only trouble is they produce more of the some. Lemons, that is...

Thanks for the advice. I thought you might be able to help me with info on disposing of dead bodies.

Lemons do well in very sour soil so I imagine bitter and twisted politicians would be perfect for them. I will just have to make sure the lemons aren't poisonous before I eat them.

[Winston001]

We have every right to expect to find the same consideration and courtesy that other motoring members of the public expect on our roads.

The next worst is the pollution of the highway by other ignorant road users and the general public at large!

The list is huge:I.E.

Cigarettes, food, bottles and other junk thrown from car windows.
Plastic bags.
Firewood.
Ground water pumped out of heavy traffic tyres.
De-laminated rubber peeling off tyres.
loose gravel left by contractors on completion of repairs, not swept off!
Diesel spills not cleaned off the road surface.
Cow shit and mud left by farmers.
Stock effluent dropped by truckers.


Motorcyclists are legitimate road users and motorcycles are a legitimate form of transport!

Cheers John and you make a good point. Motorcycles are a green and efficient means of transport which I think is completely overlooked by the influential people on this ACC issue.

However we also have to recognise that our roads are lightyears better than they were 30 years ago. In fact our roading network is very high quality given our small economic base. Plus building roads on mountainous islands isn't easy for engineers.

Any of us who have travelled off the main highways in Australia will have seen the degraded single strip of bitumen which constitutes a road there. Not surprising given the size and distances involved - but we are well-off by comparison.

So far as the hazards motorcyclists face on roads, many of them I just accept. The exception is detritus lost from trucks - that is plain wrong.