Northland 80 km limit?

[spudchucka]

Satire! S A T I R E! I know it's hard to recognise when your entire day is one long irony.

So now you are a master of all things to do with comedy too. Perhaps you should start writing humorous columns for the national newspapers...............Oh, sorry, you already do that don't you.

[jrandom]

So now you are a master of all things to do with comedy too. Perhaps you should start writing humorous columns for the national newspapers...............Oh, sorry, you already do that don't you.

< Sits back, opens beer and popcorn >

[spudchucka]

Some overseas jurisdictions still use horse-mounted cops for crowd control and the like, don't they?

And there's nothing that humanises a police officer to the law-abiding public more than looking ridiculous on a bicycle.

Horses are used for crowd control here too, not often but they do still get used.

[marty]

< joins JR >

after LOL

[badlieutenant]

not sure I should interupt or even stick my head up here but if suddenly and somewhat unbelievably every one stopped breaking any kind of law for say 1 funding period then started back up would the police receive any money at all? or is it not entirely a quota system? kind of like how the councils spend money on raods hard out at the end of the finacial year so that their funding isnt cut back,

[scumdog]

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(POP! Bubble bursts, back to flogging three tickets an hour to people who hate you for it)

WRONG! Well maybe for you sorry-arsed north-islander types it might be true but so far my worst day has resulted in 7 out of 8 saying 'thanks' when they get their I.O.N, most days it stands at around 9 out of ten and those that grump are either wannabe cops/lawyers or slack-jawed, mouth-breathing improvident lack-witted oxygen-thieves, and who gives a toss about them? (I run a private survey just for 'personal interest')

[buggerit]

Apparently Northland roads incur costs, (accidents, etc), at a far greater rate than most other provinces. So one of the Plod managers is proposing an 80 km/h limit for most of their roads.
This probably seems easier and more profitable than catching the drunks, unlicenced drivers, crap cars, etc that really cause their road toll.
It really does seem that these Transit NZ, LTSA and Plod cretins are determined to impose an 80 km limit by stealth.
And if that doesn't work, 70 or 60 or 50 or a man with a red flag.

Ten years on and around it comes again, like miniskirts but on Judith Collins

[Akzle]

Ten years on and around it comes again, like miniskirts but on Judith Collins

epic thread dredge!

but yeah. fuck aucklanders. you wreck our roads for us. dome valley was perfectly safe at 140.

[buggerit]

epic thread dredge!

but yeah. fuck aucklanders. you wreck our roads for us. dome valley was perfectly safe at 140.

Still is

[buggerit]

WRONG! Well maybe for you sorry-arsed north-islander types it might be true but so far my worst day has resulted in 7 out of 8 saying 'thanks' when they get their I.O.N, most days it stands at around 9 out of ten and those that grump are either wannabe cops/lawyers or slack-jawed, mouth-breathing improvident lack-witted oxygen-thieves, and who gives a toss about them? (I run a private survey just for 'personal interest')

Do ya reckon Scumdog has mellowed,the big softy

[scumdog]

Do ya reckon Scumdog has mellowed,the big softy

Fuck-off!

[igor]

do we send a card or flowers

[Brett]

I just got back from driving roads with an open road limit of 120kph but where most traffic sat at between 150kph and 190kph. This included 5 lane highways as well as two lane open road highways. It was very safe and efficient because people had good road manners (keep left, pull left when a faster vehicle approaches from behind etc.). It just reiterated to me that speed is nowhere near our problem, our problems as I see them are:

1) NZ Drivers lack decent road craft skills in general.

2) NZ Drivers have too much arrogance (the "I am doing 100kph so why should I move left for you?)

3) NZ Drivers generally have poor manners when they are out and about in their cars.

But yeah...the party line here will continue to be "speed kills", regardless of how short sighted this view is to being the silver bullet to safer roads with better driving.

[R650R]

I just got back from driving roads with an open road limit of 120kph but where most traffic sat at between 150kph and 190kph. This included 5 lane highways as well as two lane open road highways. It was very safe and efficient because people had good road manners (keep left, pull left when a faster vehicle approaches from behind etc.). It just reiterated to me that speed is nowhere near our problem, our problems as I see them are:

1) NZ Drivers lack decent road craft skills in general.

2) NZ Drivers have too much arrogance (the "I am doing 100kph so why should I move left for you?)

3) NZ Drivers generally have poor manners when they are out and about in their cars.

But yeah...the party line here will continue to be "speed kills", regardless of how short sighted this view is to being the silver bullet to safer roads with better driving.

Your three reasons illustrate why speed is a problem on NZ roads though.
I think I'd be right in most NZ drivers want to be allowed to go fast but don't trust everyone else to be allowed to go fast, which oddly sounds just like the police depts policy...

[Brett]

Your three reasons illustrate why speed is a problem on NZ roads though.
I think I'd be right in most NZ drivers want to be allowed to go fast but don't trust everyone else to be allowed to go fast, which oddly sounds just like the police depts policy...

Definitely. Skills and attitudes needs adjusting before it would be acceptable to move at much higher speeds.