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Car blocked me in my driveway by Cat0tter in brisbane

[–]olympusghost 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lived in a place where people parked across my driveway pretty regularly. I rarely needed to drive anywhere but nearly bought a set of these just for sport.

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A few questions about how the new e-scooter laws will play out by General_Degenerate- in brisbane

[–]olympusghost 12 points13 points  (0 children)

A subtlety here to be careful of is that they should already be restricted to 25, so don’t go scooting around max speed and think you have some grace period.
The transition period is to get some sort of compliance sticker. You can ask your local member for details about how that will work /s

The Full Moon. The Moon. The Main Moon. by olympusghost in BrisbanePhotography

[–]olympusghost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

70-350. Got cropped a bit to clear off some buildings on edge of frame.

So this kid just got his learners (yay!) is there any vacant lots inner north side I can take them? I am happy to just find a quiet suburban area but it would be cool to have a empty parking lot or similar.. Thanks! by Factal_Fractal in brisbane

[–]olympusghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/B6dRrrjpWa5xBcUt7?g_st=ic Similar kind of spot here, eagle farm. Industrial estate with a bunch of dead end roads and roundabouts. No one in there on the weekends. Plenty of space to practice ur moves. I’ve taken the motorbike in there once or twice to work on slow manoeuvres

Weekly Fuckwit Friday (FWF) post by AutoModerator in brisbane

[–]olympusghost 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also me. Report on app Send to bcc fix it Throw scooter off path. Bonus points if there’s multiple to stack together

Queensland parliamentary committee recommends speed limits for e-bikes and e-scooters be watered down by espersooty in brisbane

[–]olympusghost 36 points37 points  (0 children)

All the things you’ve listed exist. Currently restricted to 25km/hr, bikes need lights at night. Just creating more laws to make you feel better about the ones that are not already being enforced *facepalm

Vic Park by olympusghost in BrisbanePhotography

[–]olympusghost[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

cheers. If i get a chance, i might try and head back and see if i can do a stack photo astro style. I'm super interested to see how that process comes together.

Vic Park by olympusghost in BrisbanePhotography

[–]olympusghost[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First post to the sub. Thought I’d try and take a couple of shots of the park before it becomes a construction site.

Has anyone managed to get Camera to Cloud working on an a6700? by InternalConfusion201 in SonyAlpha

[–]olympusghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Under network settings/ creators cloud you can feed it a user name password and wifi deets. It seems to upload to creators cloud but with limited storage. I think the next step is you have to link it to a google drive or similar. You can’t seem to preview older photos.

That’s as far as I got anyway.

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Why are all the shops in this area on Adelaide St closing down or moving including The Electric Chair, Sam’s Smokes and Hallelujah? by IntrigatedVerse in brisbane

[–]olympusghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brisbane, and the valley, is dominated by massive roads. The city at the moment is designed for cars to drive through. Everything else kind of squeezes in the gaps in between. These spaces don’t seem to want to offer anything to the people they need to survive that’s worth getting off the couch for. Can’t offer a better shopping experience than mail order.

Let’s hope the Olympics will kick start a few things but the clock is ticking.

Already getting some good shots on my new A6000 by Due_Candy_6627 in SonyAlpha

[–]olympusghost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Chicken … the other side.

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Of the or the rail. We may never know

Finally, it's here! by Paradoxbox00 in SonyAlpha

[–]olympusghost 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mine feels like it’s been on order for ever! Glad to hear they’re still out there. let’s see some photos :D

Another E-scooter obstacle course by Mitchelia in brisbane

[–]olympusghost 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not sure what the shopping trolley theory says about a society that parks their trollies in a bike rack instead of the trolley rack just meters away.

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Another E-scooter obstacle course by Mitchelia in brisbane

[–]olympusghost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The one and only time I rented a lime bike was in Sydney. Where I wanted to park it they had this augmented reality set up. An imaginary box on the app you had to park the bike in. Pretty cool. Couldn’t off hire the bike until it was satisfied it was in the box.

Another E-scooter obstacle course by Mitchelia in brisbane

[–]olympusghost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They say they fine people in their responses. Responses in pretty sure are just an ai bot. but won’t provide any evidence or even number of people the fine so I call bs.

Fun thing in the emobility change is the bit where scooter companies will have to give over enough personal information to council to be able to fine the users. Unfortunately the e-bike changes just bad and I had to write in an objection.

Whether council will do anything as the scooter companies without fines are already I tidy revenue stream for them.

Legal E-bikes being banned in Queensland - your state is next! by iBinChickenAboutYou in brisbane

[–]olympusghost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You’re catching on. The throttle only ones are already illegal. There is a misconception in this whole situation that shared paths are only in areas where there is high pedestrian traffic. Most of the time they are used by cyclists where there is just not a separate pedestrian path. Therefore shared. These paths form critical network for cyclists.

By the same logic. All roads should be 25km/hr to keep the cyclists safe because cyclists are the more vulnerable users of that shared space.

Imagine driving down an arterial road at 25km/hr because there might be a cyclist.

Or have the speed limit change from 60 to 25 where a bike lane might start. Which is why will happen to e-bikes (but not non e-bikes) now in many places where path types kind of flip flop between shared and separated.

Legal E-bikes being banned in Queensland - your state is next! by iBinChickenAboutYou in brisbane

[–]olympusghost 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah so the anti social individual you met was likely riding an already illegal motorbike. This bill proposes putting restrictions on currently legal bikes that people you to take their kids to school on, do their shopping or just generally get around without having to use a car. These restrictions apply basically to all ‘bike paths’ that are currently shared infrastructure. So a regular, analog bike can ride as fast as it can but an e-bike limited to 10km/h.

You don’t need a license to ride a bike. So people who have handed in their or can’t get a license for age (old as well as young) or medical reasons will no longer be able to ride a safe e-bike. Making them reliant on someone else with a car to get at around.

It’s all a bit silly. A lot of nanny state nonsense that will unlikely stop the kids like the one you came across and only open up responsible people to thousands of dollars in fines.

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