NTC Withdraws Rule 151ANTC have withdrawn proposed Rule 151A (anti-lane-splitting) from the Road Rules Amendment package to be presented to ATC in June.
See letter of advice, downloadable on right.
By removing the proposed rule 151A, the NTC ensures the rest of the "package" of changes will have a high likelihood of being accepted by ATC and subsequently incorporated into law.
The actions of informed riders responding to the Regulatory Impact Statement has made quite an impression.
This was coupled with formal submissions from MCC of NSW, MRA Vic, the Australian Motorcycle Council (AMC) and motoring organisations we briefed and invited to take an interest. So, it's a great round of thanks to the NRMA, RACV and VACC in supporting motorcycle riders.
The proposal was pretty silly, so it wasn't hard to gather allies, but a matter of doing the proper legwork and process.
We understand that the number of responses received on this set of proposed road rules changes caused very great surprise and is vastly greater than any number of responses ever received by NTC to an RIS .
Commonsense prevails.
It was a proposal that would have created a significant danger to riders and also attempted to throw blame onto riders and marginalise them for systemic defects in transport planning.
