Category Archives: News Items

The President and Committee of the Motorcycle Riders Association of the ACT are pleased that Minister Rattenbury, through the ACT Road Safety Fund, has seen the value of funding the important Joe Rider motorcycle awareness campaign.
Joe Rider is part of Motorcycle Awareness Week which starts on 13th October, and the MRA ACT will ask […]

https://www.motocap.com.au/
This is an outstanding achievement.
A world first.
All Australian States are signed on.

This is a new road rule that commences from the 1st September, 2018 which relates to passing stationary emergency vehicles displaying their strobe lights. All motorists must slow to 40km/h to pass and carries a hefty penalty for failing to do so.
http://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/campaigns/slow-down-for-emergency-vehicles/index.html
The new rule requires motorists to slow down to 40km/h when passing a stationary […]

This is a guest posting from Shaun Lennard, chairman of the Australian Motorcycle Council

Six months in to this year, and it’s looking like “good” news based on the monthly national summary of road deaths. The report for June 2018 was published yesterday. The total motorcycle fatalities year-to-date has returned to where it was a couple […]

This is a guest posting from Guy Stanford from the Australian Motorcycle Council

David Milling, from the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB), was the rider of the hi-tech FJR1300 used by ARRB to collect data as part of studies in recent years conducted in Queensland and South Australia into motorcycles and road infrastructure.
Last month, Dave made […]

On Sunday 18 March, some of the MRA ACT committee took part in the ACT leg of the Black Dog Ride 1 Dayer; going from Queenbeyan to Batemans Bay.
The MRA ACT enjoys contributing to and/or taking part in causes that benefit riders, and the general community, and it was a pleasure to ride together with […]

It is with great privilege to be able to relay the Australian Motorcycle Council’s media release concerning the new nationally-agreed Australian Road Rules published this week.
Of note are the following:

Formalise the use of European helmets certified to UN/ECE 22-05
UN/ECE 22-05 provide safer helmets and a more competitive market

Clarify that standards compliance for helmets is at […]

Rhonda Thorpe, Operations Manager to St John’s Care, sent a beautiful letter of thanks to all MRA ACT members for the continued generosity and support of community organisations such as theirs.
An excerpt from the letter:

Last year in the Present Room, we were able to provide major gifts, books and stocking fillers for around 525 children […]

This is a guest posting from Guy Stanford from the Australian Motorcycle Council

AUTOMATED VEHICLES
What is proper control of a vehicle?
The big question is WHO is liable in the case of a crash with an automated vehicle (property damage and injury compensation).

Many road authority administrators believe that replacing humans with robots will solve all the problems […]

This is a guest posting from Guy Stanford from the Australian Motorcycle Council

With all the confusion around helmets and helmet laws, MCC of NSW got some funds from Transport for NSW to clarify some issues and move discussions away from “stupid laws” and onto a proper discussion about helmets.
We’ve made three YouTube videos

WHICH helmet do […]