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Face value VINYL is making a comeback ahead of World Record Store Day this weekend. Vinyl Solutions owner Glenn Aitken was the drummer in the punk band Tronics in the late 1970s (sleeve pictured) and shows another advantage vinyl records have over CDs and MP3s by getting his sleeve face on. Full story page 4. Picture: Gary Sissons
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and concluded this month. The operation aimed to promote the safety of vulnerable road users, including motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians, who are traditionally over-represented in road trauma statistics. Over the course of the operation, 1669 offences detected by police involved vehicles, 301 bicycles, 241 motorcycles and 37 pedestrians. Police targeted the popular Beach Rd cycling route over three weekends during the operation and detected a total of 885 separate offences – almost 150
A MAJOR police operation targeting “vulnerable road users” at popular bike riding locations including Kingston’s Beach Rd detected “a staggering” 2248 offences. Police said more than 300 “dodgy drivers, rogue cyclists and errant pedestrians” a week were given a much needed wake-up call during Operation Amulet, which ran over seven weeks
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a day. Of these, 669 were committed by drivers, 147 by bicycle riders, 62 by motorcyclists, and seven by pedestrians. Sergeant Arty Lavos from the state bicycle and vulnerable road users coordination unit said it was disturbing to see the number of unnecessary risks people took on the road. “It was disturbing to find that a minority of people appeared to think that the road rules didn’t apply to them and took risks, not only to their own safety but the safety of others,’ he said.
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Sargeant Lavos said cyclists using the Beach Rd route between Port Melbourne to Frankston were especially vulnerable to accidents and posed a significant risk to pedestrians. Failure to give way, disobeying traffic signals and speeding were among the most common causes of collisions involving cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians, he said. “Many collisions occur at intersections where drivers fail to give way to cyclists or pedestrians, particularly when turning right,” Sargeant Lavos
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said. “We also see crashes happen when drivers and passengers open car doors into the path of an oncoming cyclist.” Collisions also occurred when cyclists rode more than two abreast or disobeyed lane markings and traffic signals, he said, while pedestrians too often diced with death by crossing against red signals and away from designated crossings. “We need to change the culture where people believe it’s every person for himself on the roads.”
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