It looks as though there is going to be a protest rally on Tuesday 31st August @ 12.00, it will take place in front of Parliament House Maquarrie St. If anyone hasn't noticed that their Green Slip has gone up, they are not looking at it properly.
e.g. 2008 1400GTR in Sydney Metro is $780.00 at the highest and lowest is GIO with $480.00 all the others except 1 are all over $700.00.
e.g. #2 a 45yo male rider on a 250, was $211.00 now $429.00 over 100% increase.
If there is any further info I will edit this Post.
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MEDIA RELEASE - I would post the original document but .DOC files are not allowed
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NSW GOVERNMENT FAILS THE STATE’S MOTORCYCLISTS ONCE AGAIN
21 July 2010
With the arrival of new mobile speed cameras, and the RTA’s proposed new 4km/h tolerance limit for all speeding offences, it is time to take an objective look at the facts the speed-camera-revenue-addicted Keneally government is not telling us about motorcycles.
• FACT: In 1995 there were 8.9 motorcycle fatalities per 10,000 registered motorcycles in NSW.
• FACT: In 2008 there were 3.7 motorcycle fatalities per 10,000 registered motorcycles in NSW.
There are more bikes on the road than ever and the road toll is going down. The RTA’s own statistics verify that. There is no “carnage” on our roads and there never has been. That is just a convenient catch-phrase the government wheels out whenever it wishes to bankroll its fiscal failures from the pockets of the state’s road-users. Despite this, motorcyclists’ CTP premiums are set to rise by over 84 per cent in some cases.
“Never in my 40 years of involvement in motorcycles have I seen riders so angry,” the chairman of the NSW Motorcycle Council said today. “On August 31st, 2010 NSW Parliament returns and thousands of annoyed motorcycle and scooter riders will be there to greet them.”
Motorcycle and scooter riders are a unique and independent road-user group and they are fed-up with being ignored and repeatedly failed by the NSW government, except when it needs money.
THE MCCofNSW
United we ride - Divided we walk
For further information and all media enquiries please contact:
Rob Colligan – Chairman MCCofNSW
0401227731
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Noel
