I couldn’t resist! Standing on the corner waiting to cross Church street, right next to the “forward bicycle box” that Bicycle Victoria is oh so proud of having introduced to Melbourne’s roads. Up comes a car, but does he stop? No, the driver goes straight over the bike box and sits half across the line at the front of the intersection. Not just any car mind you, this was one of Victoria’s Police. Just a little more evidence that maybe what Australia’s cyclists need isn’t more shiny paint markings on the road, its a change in the attitude of the motorists.
The officer in the passenger seat wasn’t really happy, but he couldn’t quite figure out what I was doing taking a photo of their car. He made some whitty comment about my courier bag making it look like I was wearing a seat belt, I added that it didn’t have an airbag fitted, then left before I could be booked for photographing policemen without their permission.
