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    Quote Originally Posted by Berries View Post
    Read a bit more of the Rule and you will find that apparently you are meant to indicate when you change lanes. When you're splitting traffic you are constantly changing lanes, so if someone was being really really picky they could pull you up on that.
    Yeah, I was pulled over for that a few years ago. The cop didn't ticket me, just warned me.
    I've also been pulled up for filtering to the front at the lights. Once again, I wasn't ticketed, just screamed at by some semi-lunatic, incoherent, frothing-at-the-mouth bikie cop.
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    Cars may be moving...it's legal to pass within the same lane BUT to the right of the vehicle you are passing. You may only do so on the left if the vehicle is stopped. Otherwise, it's a ticket for 'undertaking'.
    Unless cars move over for you, it's not often you can pass on the right in the same lane, as most drivers tend to sit to the right side of the lane, using the lane marking as a sighting guide to where their car is on the road.
    Interestingly (or perhaps not...) I've noticed that on some roads where the markings are not continuous for the whole length of the road, many immigrant drivers' cars tend to wander all over the road when they don't have the 'safe' boundaries of the lane markings to 'fence them in'.
    LOLzah...
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    Quote Originally Posted by DangerousBastard View Post
    It's not the car drivers fault. The law quite clearly states that there is no overtaking of any type across an intersection.

    It's the riders' fault. You shouldn't overtake across an intersection or pedestrian crossing, even if there are lanes marked. It's foolish and dangerous and illegal.

    Steve
    Yes I think that rastuscat would be referring to people turning right through stationary traffic into driveways. However, I still feel it's the riders responsibility to anticipate such an action and travel at a speed that allows them to stop or take evasive action. I regularly pass stationary traffic around town on the left, and would have at least one instance a week of this sort of thing happening. Not been hit yet. (but I'm not perfect - *touches wood*)

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    Quote Originally Posted by onearmedbandit View Post
    Yes I think that rastuscat would be referring to people turning right through stationary traffic into driveways.
    I would say he was too.
    I almost witnessed a very pristine flash sort of older cage get taken out by an incident in this scenario... It would have made a nasty mess of the cage if they contacted, but if the cage wasn't in front of me to block be, then it would have made more of a mess of me.

    The incident i saw involved somebody pulling out of a Supermarket in heavy stationary traffic, and he thought that since somebody had stopped to let him out (as they were pulling in), then he didn't have to check if there were still vehicles driving down the road.
    It is pretty stupid to turn right out of any supermarket in my opinion. Especially in the little town where Manfeild is. There is more than one exit at all of them, and it only takes 30 seconds to use a better one, or turn left and go around the block!

    Sorry for the rant.... Have a safe weekend all (A long one for us Wellingtonian types)l.

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    Quote Originally Posted by glyder View Post
    The Passing on the left offence has been replaced by inconsiderately passing a vehicle traveling in the same direction nz
    Nah. Still the same.

    Land Transport (Road User) Rule 2004 (SR 2004/427) (as at 11 December 2009)

    2.8 Passing on left

    (1) A driver must not pass or attempt to pass on the left of another vehicle moving in the same direction except in accordance with this clause.

    (2) In any case in which the movement referred to subclause (1) may be made,—
    (a) the 2 vehicles must be in different lanes; or
    (b) the overtaken vehicle must be stationary or its driver must have given or be giving the prescribed signal of that driver's intention to turn right; or
    (c) if the overtaken vehicle is a light rail vehicle moving in the same direction, the light rail vehicle must not be—
    (i) signalling an intention to turn left or to stop; or
    (ii) stationary for the purposes of allowing passengers to alight or board.

    (3) If the roadway is marked in lanes, the driver may make the movement referred in subclause (1) only if the driver's vehicle does not encroach on a lane that is unavailable to a driver.
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