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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two night Hot Tomato Gaily and Averly Ja. We've got
a big announcer before you coming at twenty past seven
this morning. You want to be around the radio to
find out what is happening next year. It's very very exciting.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh well, it's funny, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
State opposition has been trying to push our government to
fast track a hand down on rules for e bike
riders and change legislation. But the government's pushed back and
said no, it was.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
The parents' fault.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
We're waiting here and we're waiting for our report, our study. Yeah,
and it's not going to be released till March, which
basically says nothing's changing till March. They are going to
get a rude awakening over the Christmas holidays.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well, they're saying, please, don't buy your kids these for Christmas.
They're putting it on the parents. Don't buy these for
your kids. Make sure you know what bikes they've got,
make sure you know if they've made any modifications. Make
sure they're home at good times and not riding at
three in the morning.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
But so moving forward, that ship sailed. Every second kid
that you see on the Gold Coaster has got one
so oh, don't get them moving forward. Okay, so does
that fix the problem of the ones that have got
it already?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
No, it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
So it's just really really frustrating because more and more times,
and I'm not trying to be a DeBie downer on
kids having these bikes, because.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Like there are some kids that are good on them
and are not.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
But but my problem is there's and it's twofold again.
It is having the bikes and them being dangerous with
their speeds and how they're riding them. But then there's
the other mischief setting where they're riding the bikes in
big gangs and throwing rocks at cars, which they're doing

(01:44):
all in. They're saying that they're water balloons, but they've
got rocks and stones in the balloons those sorts of things,
and you know, ripping up turf at cricket clubs, so
doing burnouts and everything, and then being disrespectful to the
people from the cricket club and then riding off because
no I can catch them. So the two behaviors the cutdown,

(02:04):
but the dangerous element is that there's injuries and deaths
all the time happening to our kids.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
I saw something the other day and I was pulling up.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
So I'm on Broadbeach and Narrang Road going towards the beach,
and I get to Bermuda Street, so you have to
actually turn into the right lane to turn right.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Into Bermuda Street.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
So I've sort of gone off Broadbeach and Narrang Road
into the adjoining turn right lane into Bermuda Street. So
I'm sitting there and on the inside of me so
closes closest to the medium street. In the middle, there's
these kids on basically an electric trail bike and as
I go around and the traffic is going around, they're

(02:45):
in the middle of the traffic because so they're not licensed.
They're only fifteen sixteen, they're not licensed, but because they've
got a faster vehicle, they think they can actually just
ride in the traffic. It's like saying ten years ago
a kid being on a motor bike basically and just going,
I'm in the traffic for.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
A scootered scooter. So then I started.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Getting they're not actually in to the side of the
road where by a bike lane. They're actually choosing because
it's fast enough. Oh, we can do this because we
can just keep up with the traffic.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's against the law.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, no helmets two and two on the one bike
and they zoomed on the inside.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
We were all going. It was in an eighty zone.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
They got up as we picked up to eighty they
were already going ninety and then darted across the traffic
to go into q Super and go into McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I just couldn't believe it.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
How angry were you?

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I was more.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I was more just annoyed because I know that the
government at the moment of waiting till March that's happening now.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, you don't need a study for that, So I
studied it.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
So get onto it, Like, don't do a report where
they're trying to actually say, let's get the laws right
the first time. You don't need three months. That could
be a three day summit meeting or whatever they want
to call it, and the decisions can be made. If
you're any good at decision making, do it in three
days and get the law out.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
So what do you think.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Do you think the government's sitting on their hands on
this and should react straight away or do you think
they should be taking their time? I know what I
say every day of the week, do it now, Get
it done now, because otherwise people are dying.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Let's go double five seven one one two night. I've
got a doll pass to go to Draculas. You could
be winning yourself to yourself to a bloody good night
out at Dracula's with dinner drinks at a killer show.
Should the government be doing something about these e blakes
before March next year? Which at your next it is
night Hot Tomato