Welcome to the Wheels of Justice
Posted by admin on 05/25/06 in Wheels of Justice News
At last Wheels of Justice have a ‘proper’ website and url address. The Bicycle Justice blog will remain as the main information archive for the McGee case and related issues.
2006. A year later. Despite the public protests of May 2005 and the Kapunda Road Royal Commission, the family of Ian Humphrey and indeed, the cyclists of Australia, are still waiting for the wheels of justice to turn …
The Wheels of Justice movement started in South Australia. The movement grew out of the public outcry surrounding the Eugene McGee case and the attempt by him and others to escape the law and ultimately attempt to pervert the course of justice.
Public anger lead to simultaneous cyclist protests in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on May 5th 2005. In South Australia it led to that states first Royal Commission in ten years. The McGee case is still continuing.
In Victoria, NSW, Northern Territory and Queensland there have been similar incidents a prompting us to act in solidarity with South Australia. Melbourne cyclists have helped organise the first Australian Ride of Silence on May 17 2005. Strong web forum presence and blog activity maintain the Wheels of Justice awareness and focus. We can all assist in developing pro-active roles by a working with our communities, and also with various levels of government to send a very powerful message to the community regarding road safety, shared road awareness and behavioural adjustment to all road users.
These are all positive steps to reducing the road toll, raising community health standard by creating a larger cycling population and the flow on to saving for government, business and individuals. That is the real bottom line and members of parliament are only slowly realising that cycling has a far greater positive impact on community outcomes than just about any other programme they could mention, it is proactive, minimal cost, wide reaching and easily implemented… it just takes courage to stand up to commercial interest for the greater community.
This website has been developed with that focus in mind; to create access to information that can be easily utilised to educate yourself and create greater awareness about vitally important issues encountered by Australian cyclists.
Positive changes for cyclists starts at the grassroots, with you, your family, your workplace, your local cycling club, your local Bicycle User Group, a community awareness program, media influence, pro-active involvement in riding events and driving school education programmes on share the road behaviour, to name just a few potential ways to keep the Wheels of Justice rolling for all road users.
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