Presidents Report 2019

Aug 12, 2019

 

17 July 2019

Presidents Report 2019

 

Appointment of Officers to Tasmanian Motorcycle Council Inc, for 2018 - 2019

President               Paul Bullock

Vice President     Simon Hrycyszyn

Treasurer            John Wallander

Secretary             Mick Boyd

Public Officer      Norman Targett

Executive Committee       Julie Penny,  Danny Penny,  Gary Long,   Henk Van Zetten

 

31^st December 2018, 18,824 motorcycles registered in Tasmania.

 

Lane Filtering. Became legal in Tasmania in 2018. RSAC was requested to do an advertising campaign as there have been complaints about bikes filtering. This has now been completed,

 

Ride to Survive Road-skill courses for upskilling of motorcyclist to be pursued.

 

AJL thank you for being the TMC’s major sponsor

TMT thank you for being a sponsor of the TMC

RHD thank you for being a sponsor of the TMC

       

Anti-Bikie Laws TMC attended meetings and made representation to no avails. Laws were passed but have not come into effect yet 27 May 2019.

 

A motorcycle safety audit of the Lake Leake Road

With Safe System Solutions, Tasmania Police, and motorcycling stakeholders 

The following day stakeholders attended a Safe System workshop in Launceston to discuss the findings of the safety audit and to identify potential countermeasures to address motorcyclist safety on the Lake Leake Road. Recommendations to improve motorcyclist safety on the Lake Leake Road will be presented to RSAC in a future paper.

 

Tasmania Police 27^th November 2018 trial Unmarked Motorcycle, The motorcycle is a Triumph Tiger 800 XRx (black).  The motorcycle is fitted with lights (covert), siren and speed detection radar. Riders will be fitted with helmet-mounted video cameras – the first such use by road police in Tasmania.  Use of a helmet-mounted camera will:

 

• Enable evidence of the offence to be captured on video – this will significantly reduce the number of appeals, and
• Enable the rider to choose not to intercept (e.g. too dangerous, unacceptable disruption to commuters) but still capture evidence of the offence.

After the first 3 months it exceeded expectations and has now been expanded to the North and North West of Tasmania.

 

Motorcycle Training

Since the introduction of the new training of motorcyclists there has been a marked reduction in MAIB claims, as you can see by the figures below.

	2018	2017	2016	2015
Novice L	37	63	71	70
Novice P1	21	35	28	29
Novice P2	23	26	25	34
Novice Total	81	124	124	133

 

With these figures showing the decrease of claims, the TMC has requested the government raise the speed which novice motorcycle riders can do to the same as applies to novice car drivers. Which would also increase novice rider safety? 

 

 

May 2019 State Growth asked the TMC to do an audit on the Great Eastern Drive for some motorcycle infrastructure improvements to be identified. Completed and handed to state growth.

 

We have a new minister for Infrastructure Hon Michael Ferguson, we have arranged a meeting with the minister in September.

 

Paul Bullock

President

Tasmanian Motorcycle Council Inc

 

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