A few days ago, the final E-Mobility bill was passed through the Queensland parliament. It was disappointing as I suspected it would be but we did have a few wins. The blanket 10km/h shared path speed limit was watered down to affect only footpaths and whenever riding an e-device near pedestrians plus a few other small compromises via a flurry of last minute changes that were given no time for review but otherwise the core of the bill went through as is.

It’s blatantly obvious that this Queensland LNP government’s aim with this bill had nothing whatsoever to do with public safety as they claim (nothing in the bill addresses the illegal e-motorbikes) and everything to do with ideologically and purposely destroying legitimate active transport in Queensland because they don’t like it and their friends in the car and oil industries don’t like it. Hardly surprising for what is the worst Queensland government since the Joh era of the 1980’s.

Like many others, I’m still very angry that this state has been pushed backwards like this and word is that this won’t be the last we hear about this issue. For now though, I really don’t have any more energy to expend on it so I’ll be moving onto more positive bicycle subject matter but wanted to give a big thanks to everyone who was involved in advocating.