Improving motorcycling in Auckland City - Suggestions wanted

[Supermac Jr]

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.

Where is my duck wistle and

[NDORFN]

1: Evacuate all two wheeled vehicles and riders.
2: Nuke it.

[YellowDog]

Many countries use car/bike driver/rider education TV adverts to reduce motorcycle road deaths.

This must e the most cost effective solution as the adverts have already been made.

One of the main issues contributing to accidents has to be the lax laws which allow someone to ride a (much too powerful) 250cc motorcycle without having had sufficient training or experience.

[Squiggles]

One of the main issues contributing to accidents has to be the lax laws which allow someone to ride a (much too powerful) 250cc motorcycle without having had sufficient training or experience.

That'd be something for the govt. Minutes from the last meeting have one of the safety people looking at if motorcycles can be included in a campaign like the "lookout for bikes" one currently running

[Del Fuego]

Appologies if this is a dredge and i missed the meeting timeline but can they please use something other than those confounded tar snake thingos to fix seal cracks... they really are a nuisance and seem to be more and more common.

[Squiggles]

Appologies if this is a dredge and i missed the meeting timeline but can they please use something other than those confounded tar snake thingos to fix seal cracks... they really are a nuisance and seem to be more and more common.

Yep, keen to hear of any particular areas where its shocking. I've pointed out newmarket in the past

[xwhatsit]

Yep, keen to hear of any particular areas where its shocking. I've pointed out newmarket in the past

Of course there's the Domain. But given the speed limit is 30kph it's probably not an issue (you'd think I'd learn, trying to carry 50kph around that uphill off-camber right-hander in the wet... multiple times a week every winter).

You know what I think would be a great safety initiative? A parking/police blitz on the chaos which goes down outside the new business school area (you know, before the OGG parking lights; turn right from Symonds St to head down to the Domain/motorway onramps). People double/triple parked in the middle of the road trying to pick up and drop off people. U-turns, lane changing with no indicators or warning, reversing lights coming on when you least expect them. Car doors flying open without people looking. Add to that it's downhill and the surface is not great and it can be very scary especially with a bit of rain.

[rocketman1]

If all motorists had to sit their motorcycle licence before they got their car licence, you would see a whole lot more respect for motorcyclists on Ak streets.
Same with cyclists as part of your car licence you should have to ride a pushbike through downtown Akld.
Now Thats a good idea
How these brilliant ideas of mine are never put into place, until some other country picks them up.
NZ'rs seem to do only what has been done in other countries, why is that?
Why do we have copy USA, if USA introduced this law, then 10 yrs later NZ would follow suit

This is NOT a STUPID idea OK !!!!

I know since I have been riding MC's and pushbikes, when driving a car I have a far better appreciation of the welfare of my unprotected friends

[Squiggles]

If all motorists had to sit their motorcycle licence before they got their car licence, you would see a whole lot more respect for motorcyclists on Ak streets.

Im asking for ideas to put to the Auckland City Council.... not the government.

[DangerMice]

Yep, keen to hear of any particular areas where its shocking. I've pointed out newmarket in the past

I don't appreciate these ones in the wet, they are quick thick in places and require me tip toeing in the wet http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-...27.25,,0,22.34

[DangerMice]

I don't know who this falls under but how taking a little bit of care where road marking are placed. Not putting slippery as shit white paint on the apex of a corner sounds like a good idea to me.
I read awhile ago there is non slip paint that can be used instead? Investigate that

[want-a-harley]

If all motorists had to sit their motorcycle licence before they got their car licence, you would see a whole lot more respect for motorcyclists on Ak streets.
Same with cyclists as part of your car licence you should have to ride a pushbike through downtown Akld.
Now Thats a good idea
How these brilliant ideas of mine are never put into place, until some other country picks them up.
NZ'rs seem to do only what has been done in other countries, why is that?
Why do we have copy USA, if USA introduced this law, then 10 yrs later NZ would follow suit

This is NOT a STUPID idea OK !!!!

I know since I have been riding MC's and pushbikes, when driving a car I have a far better appreciation of the welfare of my unprotected friends

Preaching to the choir, brother

And you'd get more people sticking on motor and push bikes, which is better for everyone

[Starky307]

Tell them to get behind more events like the recent Red Bull City Scramble, Auckland City Council are not the easiest people to deal with (or so I've been told) when it comes to events in their regions.

[Squiggles]

One last bump

[Ragingrob]

Great they've finally covered up a set of two full corners of tar slick in Karaka with some proper roading over top just yesterday, thanks to a fatal one-car crash last week that just slipped into a power pole.