Cops
I got pulled over by one last week. Actually, thinking back, I’m not sure it was a cop.
I was in Toorak Rd, Melbourne, and traffic was banked up, and I wove around some stationary cars to cross the intersection (with the green light), and make my way between the parked cars and the banked-up cars, to the traffic lights near the Toorak shops.
Waiting at the lights, a bloke on a regular bike pulled up next to me, pointed to his police insignia on his arm, and asked me to pull over up ahead.
I did, and he pulled up next to me. We both got off our bikes. He proceeded to tell me everything he thought I’d done wrong. He didn’t show me any ID, & he didn’t give me a ticket.
He wasn’t wearing police uniform or riding a police bike. He said it’s illegal to go past a stationary tram unless told to do so by a Tramways official. Does anyone know if this is true? I thought that only applied when the tram was setting down or picking up passengers, and that you could go at 5kph, if the tram was just stopped in traffic.
A quick check on the VicRoads site shows that you are supposed to go no faster than 10km per hour when passing a tram which has its doors closed & is finished loading passengers. That was certainly the case here.
One of his other points, was that winding around cars that are stuck in traffic, can make the car drivers cross, and they might take that out on other riders when they get the chance. This didn’t sound anything like a traffic offence, or a police caution.
Thinking back, I’m sorry I didn’t note his rego, because I’m not sure I was stopped by a cop. It might have just been someone who likes telling people what to do.
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