22.5.07
Dangerous passing, cycle lane violation by KJ03 GNX

Today at about 17:20 I was riding back from town from Mitcham's Corner
to Gilbert Road.  As I stopped at the lights at the end of Gilbert
Road, I looked around and saw that a silver car was sitting partly in
the mandatory cycle lane.  A cyclist was forced to carefully pick
their way past.

After the lights had gone green and I was riding up Gilbert Road, I
observed the same car overtaking some cyclists ahead of me in a
dangerous manner: there wasn't enough space and the driver nearly
collided with oncoming traffic.

At the Carlton Way lights I caught up with the car and picked my way
up the cycle lane.  I merged with the traffic stream as it
accelerated, but the same silver car overtook me dangerously close and
unnecessarily (since I was accelerating and an opportunity to overtake
would have arisen very shortly in any case).  The driver remained
within earshot of me for a number of seconds because our speeds were
limited to that of the traffic in front; I shouted `too close' and the
driver replied `I was overtaking' as if that was an excuse.


(In the video, events of interest are as follows:
 0:00:08  cyclist picks their way past the errant motorist
 0:00:32  overtaking at speed, over the centreline, in the face of
          oncoming traffic
 0:01:58  Carlton way lights go green, remaining events of interest)