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An issue that arises, is the quality of driving instructors in NZ...
I never see a driving school car sitting in the left hand lane, always in the centre lane on the motorway. If driving instructors cannot learn to "keep left unless passing" then what chance has the student and theoretically, the remaining road users.
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Yeah that maybe where part of the problem lies but I just cannot except that with all this fuss being made over the road toll that it isn't compulsary to at least attend a course. It's being left upto mum & or dad neither of which would of had any formal lessons themselves. A self fulfilling prophecy. Surely the pilot in command holds the greatest control over any incident?An issue that arises, is the quality of driving instructors in NZ...
I never see a driving school car sitting in the left hand lane, always in the centre lane on the motorway. If driving instructors cannot learn to "keep left unless passing" then what chance has the student and theoretically, the remaining road users.
Well, there is a misconception! We are a Banana Republic.
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Like the AA instructor that was invited to assess the levels of driving skills of our staff a while back. (Part of the safety BS demanded of us by the same client that now has our vehicles wired for permanent lights on. Don't get me started)
Two of many 'faults' he found in my and others driving:
*Using the right lane of two 'straight through' lanes as I was failing to keep left. So why are there two lanes then??
*On driving past a local high school at 11.00pm I failed to slow (to 30kmh) from 50kmh as we passed a parked school bus. WTF??
These guys seem to exist in their own little world where practicality is a foreign concept
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To allow another vehicle to overtake. Courtesy dictates that a road user will keep left.
NZ appears immune to that courtesy though.
(Yes, I know it is legal to undertake on a multi lane road...)
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This situation was at a traffic light controlled intersection where the left lane finishes and is forced to merge right 150-200m further on due to a narrow bridge. Locals in the know use the right lane at the lights for this reason as New Plymouth drivers are resistant to allowing merging traffic in
Northgate heading west through Mangorei Road lights for those that know New Plymouth.
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Ha ha, yeah I know the stretch you speak ofThis situation was at a traffic light controlled intersection where the left lane finishes and is forced to merge right 150-200m further on due to a narrow bridge. Locals in the know use the right lane at the lights for this reason as New Plymouth drivers are resistant to allowing merging traffic in
Northgate heading west through Mangorei Road lights for those that know New Plymouth.
Not just NP drivers, that's the country over
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L-Plate Rider
and back to the radar issue
I was told by a shop they tried to ban radars, but couldnt because the law covers navmans aswell, and they couldnt justify banning all of them, so no changes
But that may have been just to sell me the 1000 dollar radar... which worked.
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Aaaaaah all becomes clear.
The instructor was an idiot. Basically, it isn't marked thus but the left lane is for people turning left. If you try to go straight nobody will let you into the queue for the bridge...
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as far as making the road toll go down, sometimes we just have to accept that things go wrong and people die. you will never stop it from happening no matter what law you bring in
Thats whats up.
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Pretty sure the left lane has a double arrow (left & straight through) so essentially two straight ahead lanes. But you're right about the bridge problem.
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Natural selection like.... and the young 'uns these days are increasingly lacking the smarts necessary for survival
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Yes you are right. The cause of problems at the bridge is peoples reluctance to merge like a zip with que jumpers that speed thru in the left lane at much greater than the mean 60kph. They have been stymied by the left turn red arrow allowing pedestrians to cross before vehicles can turn left (or go straight ahead) - another reason traffic prefers the right lane!
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The traffic regs do say "keep left" somewhere in their depths. But sounds like you had a good reason on this piece of road.
I got a ticket a little while ago for not slowing past a parked school bus. Thems the rules.
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Another thing that kiwi's cannot do.
In the words of Billy Connelly when touring NZ, "merge like a zip? you fuckers merge more like fucking velcro!".
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