Petition- Minimum Safe Passing Distance between Cyclists & Motorists

Help sign up for the minimum safe passing distance petition

Cyclist Dave Sharp set up SafeCyclingAustralia nearly 2 years ago. His main aim is to achieve a minimum safe passing distance between cyclists and motorists of 1 metre and get this passed in law. 

“Any Aussie cyclist will be able to tell you a story or two when it comes to close calls,” Dave writes on the SafeCyclingAustralia website. “This project would like to see the cyclists of the future with less stories to tell rather than more. But I need your help for that to happen. SafeCyclingAustralia is all about us reclaiming space on Australia’s roads.”

Late July he set up a petition – the Minimum safe passing distance between cyclists and motorists petition – for people to add their names to in support of the rule being enshrined in law. 

Currently (17 August 2011) there are 2593 signatories to this new petition, which aims to indicate support for “lobbying the State and Federal governments for a minimum safe passing distance rule of at least one (1) metre to be enshrined in law”.