No fucking way…
Minister for Regulation David Seymour asked his ministry for advice about the benefits of removing cycling helmet requirements, Newstalk ZB can confirm.
The Ministry for Regulation told Seymour the risks of removing the requirements would outweigh any benefits, and it was determined no further action was taken.
Documents on the matter have been released to Newstalk ZB under the Official Information Act, including advice which warned that removing the helmet mandate would lead to more deaths.
A regulatory response issue, sent to Seymour’s senior ministerial advisor from the Ministry for Regulation, went into depth about the current requirements. It confirmed his office asked for advice about “the potential risks and benefits of removing the requirement for helmets to be worn on bicycles”.
Bike helmets have been mandatory in New Zealand since 1994. Not wearing one carries a fine of $55.
…Look.
I think we all appreciate that ACT are a fanatical, wide eyed, small government with a microscopic G Milton Friedman acolytes, but dumping bike helmets and letting the free market decide your brain injury?
Sweet Jesus this is crazy even for ACT!
As you struggle to make ends meet, he thinks bike helmets are the pressing issue?
Does he want to dump them because ACT voters hate cyclists and want to ensure death when they hit them?
Before David Seymour was ACT Leader, there was the hapless Jamie Whyte how insanely argued from his libertarian purity circle that incest should be legalised…
Act leader regrets incest comment
The new leader of the Act party says he regrets saying he believes incestous relationships between consenting adults should not be illegal.
…I can’t remember what bullshit moment of purity logic he was aiming for here, and most importantly neither could voters, but it highlighted the total disconnect between reality and the nonsense world of pure libertarianism.
Seymour has lost himself up the same arsehole, we all know as parents that bike helmets fucking matter, that he is so libertarian that he sees deregulating bike helmet laws is the next great frontier of freedom, shouldn’t he be told to fuck the fuck off?
Shouldn’t he?
Shouldn’t this be a moment of realisation for everyone else that beyond the dopey face, the twerking with zero bass and the dour one liners, Seymour is an extremist who is pushing an extremist deregulation programme with the same zeal as book burners.
If you were a bloke who voted ACT because you were angry with Jacinda, David wanting to dump bike helmets is your moment of rock bottom clarity.
The guy is an ideological crypto-fascist, you should probably not vote for him again.
Friends don’t let male friends vote for ACT.
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Oh my God. What has been seen cannot be un-seen.
Wasn’t sleazemore partner’d up with jonky’s idiot son?
Here we go.
https://www.facebook.com/MaxKeyNZ/posts/heres-an-expectation-vs-reality-of-dancing-with-the-stars-with-my-friend-david-s/869035513266681/
“Live free, ride
free” as the old no lid bikers used to say. All good till your bonce meets the highway.
Atlas Dave has done well here, rip into him!
“Live free, ride free.”
Yeah those cyclists are free riders.
Don’t pay road tax or ACC levies. Demand their pink gold plated cycle lanes are paid for by car drivers. Pretend they need cycleways for commuting but dont use them 3 days out of 5 when its raining. Ride on the footpaths and pedestrian crossings endangering children and old ladies.
Then they exhibit their lycra clad cock and balls in the nations cafes while the middle class are eating brunch.
Everyone pays road user and ACC, I’ll leave it to you to figure out this little fact…
Cycle Lanes are paid for by a variety of means, by everyone…
So you don’t want cycle lanes, but you also don’t want cyclists on the footpath…
Seems that you’re on the road a lot if you’re monitoring all the cycle ways all the time. Are you a courier or an Uber driver?
And why are you staring at the crotches of cyclists my dude?
See kiddies, this is what happens when you sniff petrol…
You wind up ignorant and totally comfortable with the country sending billions offshore every year so that idiots like Joseph can compensate for having a small cock.
How much do you owe on your car Joseph?
I hear Viagra is cheaper.
Truckers and petrol buyers pay direct taxes for roads construction. Cyclists pay $zero direct taxes for cycle lanes.
Truckers, car owners and motor cyclists are directly levied ACC to cover road accidents over and above any ACC levied on wages or incomes. Lycra clad cyclists while causing many road accidents and hospital expense pay $zero in direct ACC levies.
Clearly they are getting a Free Ride.
Cycling is not a viable commuter solution in a rain country.
Electric cars recharged on household solar is the future which will stop the export of petrol dollars.
And Cinder please ask your cyclist mates to stay in their cycle lanes and off the footpaths.
Next Seymour will decide, in the libertarian tradition, that laws mandating that you wear pants while cycling past children’s playgrounds are dissuading people from choosing to cycle, and seek to legalize that.
Seymour is just a puss ridden piece of scum on a microbes arsehole
Delightful as usual.
Strange how naive N.Z. has ended up with, not one, but two, 40 year old virgins, in Seymour and Van Velden, dictating their stupid reckons on what prudent, proven, safety regulations should look like.
They are still virgins with good reason…nobody in their right mind would want to be apart of continuing that DNA on through to future generations.
Both are an absolute menace to N.Z. society and i expect Luxon, being a performance based CEO, and having everyday Kiwis saftey concerns at the forefront of his mind ,(gag! cough!! splutter!!! ),with every decision, to have their
porfolios stripped from them.
Where is Mr.Nowhere Man Luxon on this?
Ba ha!
Spot on Derek, only the intellectually impaired would disagree
The Netherlands (where just about everyone bikes to their work) and is super high density, does not have a helmet law. Their head injury stats are not worse than ours. We adopted this crazy law for one incident with a mother who had a very, very loud voice. The fact is that we know that helmets lower the adoption of biking as a means of personal transport, which you would think is not what you want given the perceived threat of climate change will for sure kill everyone. Right?
Does your incredible deducing apply to seatbelts as well
We are not the Netherlands
No, we are not.
The Netherlands is wealthy and highly developed.
Nitriums evidence is so full of holes and why is it that Mr 8% wants to make decisions for 100% of the country I’d hope that one day he Cycles without a helmet and a Truck meets him head-on
And the Netherlands have better drivers where they don’t take criticism of their driving abilities as a slight on their inner self. Drivers read the road ahead and regularly check the road behind; they’re able to stay in their lane and are conscious of the size of their vehicle; and they don’t drive like fleas on P/
But being as incredibly intelligent as you are, you already know that. And no doubt you’re considerably, considerably richer than moi
Some crazy guess tells me that the Netherlands has a rather better cycling infrastructure than NZ with good separation of cyclists from vehicle traffic making it much, much safer.
Maybe that’s because they do urban planning properly from the start. Check out the video on the town of Houten on the Not Just Bikes Youtube channel.
The Netherlands has extensive cycle lanes, away from cars. They don’t have the camber on their roads like we do. The Netherlands heave use of Traffic Calming, and creating Continuous Sidewalks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAxRYrpbnuA
The above link is a gate way to how we fix our cities and make it safer for cycling and yeah have a situation where people can ride without helmets. But even in the Netherlands, they encourage children to wear helmets to protect then from BRAIN DAMAGE.
So you have ridden a cycle in the Netherlands and you know the laws there.
Cars have to give way to cycles and if they hit a cycle they are in the wrong.
You forgot to compare the accident rates for cycling here and the Netherlands or include the % of cyclists wearing a helmet there so the noise that comes out your back end would be just as relevant as your comment regarding this discussion.
As you can see it is a brave man that suggest the state does not know best especially when it is personal safety.
Young people up to say 16 years old should be compelled to wear them but them it should be personnal choice .
“we know that helmets lower the adoption of biking as a means of personal transport”
if the powers that be were really interested in increasing cycling adoption rates they would have given everyone in Auckland an ebike rather than give a $billion to the civil infra rort for the almost empty cycle lanes.
Or let’s just bring back car less days…
Just to hear the bleating of petrol addled road addicts like you.
Great, I agree, let’s implement the Netherland’s cycling policy in its totality, and let’s do it ASAP.
They’re rethinking their stance:
‘The brain is very vulnerable’: Dutch cyclists urged to wear helmets as road deaths rise
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/16/the-brain-is-very-vulnerable-dutch-cyclists-urged-to-wear-helmets-as-road-deaths-rise
Fucking Anarchists 🙂
Given that most riders of bikes are left wing and or Greens I’m highly in favour of dropping the hard hat requirement.
They are clever enough to wear helmets as it’s only the personal liberty types on a driving suspension riding without a helmet so what you think is a clever idea would result in less people like you so we can agree on something for change.
How could we tell if the head impacts had any effect?
So all for murder and genocide. Showing the true colors of the right Bob.
And once again Bob troll produces a real clanger without providing any evidence whatsoever for this stupid comment.
Killing or brain injuring kids cyclling on their way to or from school or weekend sport is OK then Bob? Is it really?
You advocate for killing or injuring kids on bikes? And adults too?
Maybe you should move to Israel Bob.
We don’t want you here…
Most cyclists are definitely not “left wing or Greens”. Anyway the left wing cyclists are the smart ones who would most likely wear a helmet even if it was not compulsory. It is Seymour’s supporters who think they are ten foot tall and bullet proof who will start riding around without helmets on, and I think that’s where we’ll see the head injuries start to add up.
Bob’s reckons…
Pulled from his ass and still reeking of My Cockskin.
Dear David, the government you are part of told some motorcycle clubs that they are not allowed to wear their insignia, and I now feel less safe not being able to identify them when they are in public. Are you going to look into changing that law too?
Dave thinks it’s OK because he wants to privatise healthcare. So, if you get a head injury from not wearing a helmet but can’t afford to pay for your treatment, you can bankrupt and exhaust your family before dying in a dirty, unwashed bed. That’s obviously how (in Dave’s mind) ‘taking personal responsibility’ should work. And as a bonus, your bankrupt family will then be easy meat for landlords, loan-sharks and employers looking to pay low wages – the sort of fine, upstanding people who vote for ACT.
#5 (?) attempt then —
“shouldn’t he be told to fuck the fuck off?
Shouldn’t he?”
Yes
Given that there is no legal requirement to wear a helmet whilst riding an e-scooter, and you can use the ride share ones at 20+ km/h on the footpath or your own one at 60+ km/h on the road with no need for a licence, WOF or rego, there is definitely a need for a fresh look at some of these laws. I would choose to wear a helmet now, but I also grew up cycling to school before helmets were a thing, at a time when most kids cycled to school.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/illegally-powered-high-speed-e-scooters-are-being-left-unchecked-by-waka-kotahi/LSWKJCVALFFPJN4LZVHVNPE7RA/
They should absolutely be compulsory on e-scooters.
” Friends don’t let male friends vote for ACT ”
Or put their kids in danger by allowing them to ride a bike without the safety helmet.
Compulsory for kids, but I’m all in on adult bicyclists deciding for themselves if they want to wear a helmet.
Agree
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