In aus.bicycle on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:20:05 GMT
beerwolf wrote:
Zebee Johnstone wrote:

(I wonder if RFID chips could work, with cops and parking cops
equipped with hand held scanners, and a backpack full of locks. A
bike without a chip gets locked up and the truck comes by later to
impound it. Plainclothes spotters at intersections with readers walk
out, scan the bike, and slash the tyres to stop the owner riding off
then lock the bike... Only cost each rider a couple of hundred a year
to fund, surely!)

Are you serious? (I suspect not). I can think of at least a dozen

Not really. However it does have to be thought about.

social ills, any one of which could be attacked by similar
zero tolerance overkill and with a better payoff. Red light runners
irritate me too, but the actual real harm they do is only likely to
be to themselves.

Well I can see that world peace is a better thing to strive for than
road safety for cyclists, so obviously no one should bother about road
safety for cyclists.

What else you can do isn't the point, can you do this? And why not?
Why is it overkill? If the technology to register bicycles was
available at a price that could be covered by say $200/yr per cyclist
what are the reasons not to do it?

Zebee