Lygon St bike hoons

A typical example of a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night at the busy Lygon St restaurant strip as shown in the video.

See Video at youtube address:

http://youtu.be/-Wjy2KUnCPY

This particular video was taken on the corner of Lygon and Queensberry streets Carlton. The speed limit is 40 km/h.

Police have little or no interest in patrolling the streets where motor bike riders have illegal exhausts fitted, along with their fellow car hoons, continue to be a noise menace to the hundreds of outside diners on the restaurant strip.

The financial benefit to the government i.e penalty notices / hour on Lygon St is not as lucrative if efforts are concentrated elsewhere. A significant presence of police man power would have to be employed at Lygon St, which is not on the agenda for the authorities.

Not that long ago near that very intersection on Queensberry St, a pedestrian was killed.

Even though, through television commercials the official cry by police is that they are sick of attending unnecessary accidents (the blame being - speeding drivers, which is a deliberate lie, as the most common cause is driver error), this can be quickly discounted as there is no action taken by authorities in Lygon St.

The end game in NOT about public safety but rather the revenue generated by police for the government.

See article from The Age from 14 August 2011:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/pedestrian-killed-in-carlton-20110814-1ispl.html

Pedestrian killed in Carlton

A Wollongong man was killed and his partner was critically injured after coming to Melbourne to watch the football.

Police said the 31-year-old woman and the 32-year-old man had been hit while crossing a busy Carlton intersection at 7pm on Saturday.

The man later died in hospital and the woman is fighting for her life in the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Police have interviewed witnesses and CCTV footage is being examined.

It is believed the female driver of a station wagon had ignored a red light at the Queensbury and Lygon street intersection.

The couple, who have two young children in NSW, were in Melbourne to watch today's match between the Sydney Swans and Richmond.

A 28-year-old woman from Keilor has been interviewed by police about the crash.

She was released without charge and the investigation is continuing.
A report will be prepared for the Coroner.