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OPERATION PIPEDOWN
SITUATION
As part of „The Way Ahead‟ strategic Plan 2008 – 2013 the Victoria Police is supporting Victoria‟s Road Safety Strategy „Arrive Alive,‟ which is to reduce the road toll and the incidence of road trauma. The focus will be on targeting driver behaviour and promoting safety on our roads.
On Tuesday the 20th of April 2010, Operation „Pipedown,‟ targeting excessively noisy motor vehicles and safety related offences will commence. The operation will accompany a media campaign. The operation will be conducted in the Melbourne area for a two week period, concluding on Saturday the 1st of May 2010. The media campaign will commence one week before the enforcement phase of the operation, commencing on the 13th of April, 2010. This initiative will be conducted in conjunction with:
Police Media Liaison Unit,
Melbourne University Medical Faculty,
Environment Protection Authority,
Melbourne City Council,
Safe Streets Task Force,
Region 1 TMU.
It is anticipated that various community groups together with anti-noise lobby groups will be providing their support to the media campaign.
Excessively loud motor vehicles are a community disorder issue with much of the blame placed on drivers of illegally modified cars and motorcycles, or sport bikes equipped with illegal exhaust systems such as straight pipes, drag pipes or performance pipes.
Excessive noise is a serious environmental problem impacting health and well-being. The effects of this excessive noise should not be trivialized.
Excessively loud motor vehicles constitute an offence against the Environment Protection Act.
In combination with a focus on excessively loud motor vehicles, the focus will also be towards safety related offences. Offences such as: Drink Driving, Roadworthy Offences, Fail to Wear Seat Belt, Fail to Give Signal, Use Hand Held Mobile Phone While Driving.
The operation will be conducted alongside, and in conjunction with the Safe Streets Task Force effort on the Friday and Saturday nights, as the excessively loud motor vehicle drivers come under the banner of “anti-social behaviour.” The Police members engaged in the operation on these nights will complement the Safe Streets Task force members, and will conduct duties consistent with the Safe Streets Initiative.
The purpose of the operation will be two fold: Informational Education and Enforcement.
1. Informational Education
Informational education will be provided to the public, through a carefully managed media campaign.
The Melbourne University medical faculty staff (Audiology, and related fields) will provide experts to outline the health risks associated with excessively loud motor vehicle noise, supported by relevant research. The faculty staff will not provide any front line support.
The media departments of the other participating authorities will be briefed and available for any media interviews, relevant to their authority‟s fields of expertise.
The target population will be informed of the impact of the noise generated within the community, rather than relying solely on an enforcement campaign.
2. Enforcement
Police members will be issuing EPA Notices in relation to excessively loud motor vehicles and infringement notices/briefs in relation to other traffic offences.
The EPA will provide vehicle testers for a part of the operation. The EPA Officers will also test loud and smoky heavy vehicles in the Melbourne area, including the Docklands vicinity. EPA staff will process the issued EPA Notices.
A select number of Melbourne City Council Law Enforcement Officers (3 Law Enforcement and 3 Parking and Traffic Officers), will attend training at the EPA. The training will be conducted prior to the commencement of the operation. This training will provide the EPA with the confidence that these officers have the ability to subjectively assess vehicles they consider to be excessively noisy.
Melbourne City Council Officers will not be intercepting motor vehicles for this purpose, however will issue and submit „Spotting Reports‟ for excessively loud motor vehicles driven through the Melbourne CBD.
The Melbourne City Council will share the responsibility of enforcing noise control.
A multi-agency approach will provide a maximum impact to this noise reduction and safe driving strategy.

Sundeep wrote:Damnnnn they make it suck to own a modified car.

BA XR6T + tune = win.

[Sterling] wrote:<3 DiFilippo exhuast. Sounds stock untill your flooring it.

SLOLS1 wrote:Anyone with a v8 with a cat back will be f*****....

pHaT`eL wrote:twisted logic

It shouldnt have anything to do with the road toll, the louder the car, usually the slower it goes.. Well in a Windsor anyway!

Punisher wrote:What the hell does cracking down on cars that have loud exhausts have to do with the state's high road toll?

A little while ago, a woman was killed on the Craigieburn Bypass after she stopped on the side of the road to clear the freeway of some debris, another woman driving southbound hit and killed her. Now, if the car that hit this woman had a loud exhaust, the woman would have/could have heard the vehicle coming and maybe, just maybe, she'd be alive???

My 2 cents.

Rollin wrote:

Punisher wrote:What the hell does cracking down on cars that have loud exhausts have to do with the state's high road toll?

A little while ago, a woman was killed on the Craigieburn Bypass after she stopped on the side of the road to clear the freeway of some debris, another woman driving southbound hit and killed her. Now, if the car that hit this woman had a loud exhaust, the woman would have/could have heard the vehicle coming and maybe, just maybe, she'd be alive???

My 2 cents.

That's two simultanious fails there - how the **** can you a)get hit by a car on the freeway or b) hit someone on the freeway????

It's not like there are trees and poles and shit to hide behind, and if you are on a freeway you expect cars to be coming quickly! Survival of the fittest wins again

Also - I want to kill pretty much every single politician, because they are all fucking retarded.

Dansedgli wrote:Loud cars give me the shits.

Dansedgli wrote:Loud cars give me the shits.

old_mate wrote:rotaries at idle sound terrible, but i love them at 9000rpm...

don't worry victorians, our state is getting bent over and driven from behind as much as yours. Go Anna Bligh. Go all politicians.

UNEZED wrote:this shit is gonna suk balls
who wants to start the bids petes wagon gets done 1st

EFFalcon wrote:hopefully they stick to the CBD.

67rce wrote:http://www.mcnews.com.au/NewsArchives/2010/April/Pipedown.pdf

OPERATION PIPEDOWN
Excessive noise is a serious environmental problem impacting health . .

UNEZED wrote:this shit is gonna suk balls
who wants to start the bids petes wagon gets done 1st

HeraldSun wrote:IF you're sick of the roar of someone else's huge V8 beast, police are all ears.

Almost 750 Environment Protection Authority notices have been issued over excessively loud vehicles in the first three days of Operation Pipedown.

And revheads who love to prowl Melbourne's nightclub precincts in eardrum-bursting machines can expect attention this weekend when the Safe Streets taskforce zeroes in on those areas.

Police, the EPA and Melbourne City Council officials are involved in the crackdown on illegally modified cars and motorcycles.

Insp Bernie Jackson said those intercepted had 28 days to get a compliance certificate proving they had fixed the problem.

He said they could impound their vehicles or their registration could be cancelled if they did not.

Insp Jackson said Australian Bureau of Statistics figures showed dangerous and noisy driving was the top concern of people ranking problems in their community.

"We are asking people with overly loud cars and motorcycles to respect their community and tone it down," he said.

"This is an opportunity for people to have a listen and think about the level of noise from their vehicle, and consider the impact on people's health and the local amenity."

Car noise levels must be under 90 decibels and motorcycles must not exceed 94 decibels.

About 5000 EPA notices for excessively loud vehicles are issued in Victoria every year.

Operation Pipedown is supported by the Environment Protection Authority, the Victorian Deaf Society and Harley-Davidson.

It will also deal with other breaches including unroadworthy vehicles, drink-driving and use of mobile phones while driving.

Insp Jackson said the operation had been launched because of the "significant" number of complaints received about loud vehicles.

He said the operation was also another way for police to tackle hoon drivers.

"Noisy hoon drivers could ultimately face having their vehicle's registration suspended, another incentive for hoons to tone it down and drive responsibly," he said.

"If the prospect of having their vehicle impounded doesn't phase some hoons, then perhaps facing loss of registration will."