All RACV members - please read the email below! ----- Original Message ----- JOHN PRESLEY AMANDA STONE TRENT McCARTHY RACV CANDIDATES Dear Amanda, Trent & John. We have read about your pro motorcycle & scooter positions as candidates for the coming RACV Board elections. We understand there are five candidates in this election with two being current board members. The three candidates who are not on the RACV Board all have pro bike policies. We wrote to all RACV Board Members and the RACV Patron earlier this year about the Transport Accident Commissions discriminatory tax on most motorcycles & scooters in Victoria. RACV supports the tax. We asked that the RACV Board change its policy on the TAC tax in line with the 2012 Parliamentary Inquiry (PIMS) recommendation, the VACC media release and the written promises by Premiers Baillieu and Napthine to abolish the TAC tax. The picture of Ted Baillieu MP appeared in the Wangaratta Chronicle. parliament.vic.gov.au/rsc/inquiry/293 From all those letters we received only one reply. Not one from the RACV Board. The only reply was from the RACV Patron Governor Alex Chernov AC QC. It related to his position as Governor of Victoria not his role as Patron of the RACV. The 326,000 Victorians who hold road riders licences, many are RACV members, deserve better. We need RACV Board members who recognise the benefits to all road users from a safe, well-organised motorcycle & scooter community. The Independent Riders Group (IRG) wants the RACV to call for the TAC tax to be abolished, to call for VicRoads to implement PIMS and legitimise traffic filtering and to permit motorcycles & scooters to use most bus lanes. All of this makes good road safety sense and good economic sense. The TAC tax reduces low-income riders ability to buy quality protective clothing by over $70 a year and rising. It is estimated that traffic congestion will cost Australia $15 BILLION a year by 2030. theguardian/commentisfree/2014/sep/24/scooters-the-way-forward-for-australias-traffic-congestion-problem The IRG will advise its members and riders generally not to vote for sitting RACV Board members and to vote for two of the three candidates who are not on the Board. Please reply to this email and we will put your comments on facebook and our blog. Damien Codognotto OAM Spokesman Independent Riders Group Melbourne. damiencodognottooam.blogspot
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:37:57 +0000
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