Improving motorcycling in Auckland City - Suggestions wanted

[Squiggles]

Coming up is the 3rd meeting for the "Stakeholder Group, Motorcyclists/Scooters and Auckland City Council"
The group more or less consists of representatives from the various clubs/organisations, as well as council reps from parking, strategy, road safety, yadayada

I've already got a few University specific items to take this time round, but here i am looking for more. I want to know what you think the council could do to make the city a better place for motorcyclists.

[Marmoot]

Better training and personality requirements for bus drivers.
Better redlight sequencing to reduce drivers frustration which often leads to redlight jumping.
Better road lining that are (1) non slippery in wet, and (2) visible.
Better road construction traffic management (see Symonds Street for example).
Better road construction resurfacing (see Quay Street left lane for example).

[Ragingrob]

Tell roadworks not to put a smooth sheet of metal measuring like 2x2 in the middle of a corner Kind of hard to ride around corners with ZERO traction on our only two wheels.

It'd be cool to have a bylaw okaying lane-splitted at speeds under 50kph or something.

[Headbanger]

Round up 1/4 the population, send them back to the islands, round up another 1/4 and redistribute them around the country.

[EJK]

Send the Asians home.


nah just kidding.

[MarkH]

It'd be cool to have a bylaw okaying lane-splitted at speeds under 50kph or something.

I think that should be under 150kph - I never exceed 150kph when lane splitting.

But seriously - I would love to see considerate and safe lane splitting officially okayed in law!

I would also like to see something done about steel 'slippery when wet' manhole covers on the road - there are some that are really badly located for motorcycles.

[Ragingrob]

I think that should be under 150kph - I never exceed 150kph when lane splitting.

But seriously - I would love to see considerate and safe lane splitting officially okayed in law!

I would also like to see something done about steel 'slippery when wet' manhole covers on the road - there are some that are really badly located for motorcycles.

Haha what about those yellow raised bumps at crossings on the footpath for (blind people?)/(grip?), those things are bloody slippery to walk on!

[Swoop]

Increased parking areas dedicated to bikes.

Anything that has a metal surface, on the road, must have a non-skid coating applied to it.

An open-season on parking nazi's once per year. I suggest 6 weeks when we are legally allowed to lure them and then shoot the bastards. Decoys are fully permissable.

[Indiana_Jones]

Ban cars on city roads.

-Indy

[suckingair]

I think that should be under 150kph - I never exceed 150kph when lane splitting.

But seriously - I would love to see considerate and safe lane splitting officially okayed in law!

I would also like to see something done about steel 'slippery when wet' manhole covers on the road - there are some that are really badly located for motorcycles.

I'd go with the idea of making lane splitting legal.. works in other countries why not here..

Lane splitting is permitted in the following countries:

* Austria
* Belgium
* Brazil
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Estonia
* France
* Greece
* Italy
* Japan
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Oman
* Portugal
* Qatar
* Spain
* South Africa
* Sweden
* U.A.E.
* United Kingdom
* United States
o California has no laws explicitly prohibiting lane splitting, and is the only U.S. state for which official statements state that lane splitting, when done safely, is legal. California is not the only state for which there is no traffic law that explicitly prohibits lane splitting, but officials rely on other laws to regularly interpret lane splitting as unlawful.For example, New Mexico does not address lane splitting by name, but has language requiring turn signals be used continuously for at least 100 ft. before changing lanes, as well as other codes which may be cited by an officer. Many other states have identical codes, derived from the Uniform Vehicle Code. What makes California different is the official interpretation of codes such as this one, and years of legal precedent to make it the law.

ps, go wikipedia.com

[Ixion]

Be very very VERY careful about raising lane splitting officially. Firstly, ACC does not have the power to make it explicitly legal. So raising it will achieve nothing. This group is with ACC not the Police let alone MoT. MoT (ie the government ) are the only ones who could pass such a law change. And, putting it on the official radar is as likely to get it officially banned as officially permitted. Probably more likely. The non skid surface for metal objects is a good point - though I think that officially this is already supposed to be the case (Transit guidelines)

[xwhatsit]

Send the Asians home.


nah just kidding.

We did -- to Christchurch

[Indiana_Jones]

Be very very VERY careful about raising lane splitting officially. Firstly, ACC does not have the power to make it explicitly legal. So raising it will achieve nothing. This group is with ACC not the Police let alone MoT. MoT (ie the government ) are the only ones who could pass such a law change. And, putting it on the official radar is as likely to get it officially banned as officially permitted. Probably more likely.

Ixion makes a very good point here.....

-Indy

[discotex]

A bylaw that allows motorcycles to park on footpaths would be good.

[MarkH]

The non skid surface for metal objects is a good point - though I think that officially this is already supposed to be the case (Transit guidelines)

If that is true then to whom would I report the metal covers that I observe that don't have the non-skid surface? There are places that I modify my line to avoid riding over metal covers - if someone got caught out in the wet it would not go well.