C***T! Watch out for cops around Wellesley & Princes St @ Auck Uni

[motorbyclist]

On a marked pedestrian crossing?

the crossing is about 30meters away and has lights to stop the traffic. there's a pedestrian overpass fairly close by too, to get over wellesley.

instead, the lazy buggers cross as this busy and unusual intersection, in all directions, and DO walk without looking. this is the case ALL over the streets surrounding the university, despite the councils best efforts to ruin traffic flow; there's now even a crossing with lights directly above an underpass on symonds, and people still cross willy-nilly

[Danae]

there's now even a crossing with lights directly above an underpass on symonds, and people still cross willy-nilly

And they press the button and cross anyway, causing the traffic that already gets held up by the stupid phasing at the next lights to get held up even more.

[motorbyclist]

It's not exactly a zebra crossing, just a traffic island. I believe motorbyclist coming from wellesley st almost hit some numpty who wasn't looking; the car giving way to the bike beeped their horn. The pedestrian finally looked up and stopped, saving the riffer from getting a new paintjob.

yep would've kerbed it or hit the car to avoid them (or hit them and probably hit a parked car anyway)- and I've had near misses there with pedestrians trying to cross wellesly without looking despite all the noise I'm making in first gear. funnily enough fitting angry eyebrows to my bike almost completely cured the problem!

on symonds I nearly hit a guy who walked out from behind a parked van. txting.

[Danae]

yep would've kerbed it or hit the car to avoid them (or hit them and probably hit a parked car anyway)- and I've had near misses there with pedestrians trying to cross wellesly without looking despite all the noise I'm making in first gear. funnily enough fitting angry eyebrows to my bike almost completely cured the problem!

on symonds I nearly hit a guy who walked out from behind a parked van. txting.

I clearly need more prominent angry eyebrows; the black on blue just can't be seen from a distance. ): My favourites are the ones who don't realise that bikes need to lean over to turn corners at speed, so they stand right on the curb and have to jump backwards to avoid your helmet colliding with one of their limbs.

[PirateJafa]

My favourites are the ones who don't realise that bikes need to lean over to turn corners at speed, so they stand right on the curb and have to jump backwards to avoid your helmet colliding with one of their limbs.

The heck are you doing riding so close to the footpath that you need to lean over it just to turn left?

That sounds as foolish as the people who have their heads/bodies/bikes in the oncoming lane when going around right-handers "But it's all good bro, my my tyres are still touching my own lane".

[Squiggles]

Probably those metal plates making the inside of the corner more favourable? Its more a case of peds starting to step out before you've passed...

[motorbyclist]

Its more a case of peds starting to step out before you've passed...

+1

especially when driving with a trailer - I'm always worried they didn't see it and just got pwned

[Krayy]

I stopped and asked the cop that was there a few weeks back what his interpretation of the stopping law was. He reckoned it was as long as the vehicle (car or bike) was definitively stopped. No mention of time, or if you need to put feet down (in fact he said if you can stop without putting your feet down, good on ya), but you must have actually stopped any forward travel.

The reasons for sitting there is that when coming up Wellesley St, the turning is blind due to the gates around Albert Park, and that there is a pedestrian crossing a few metres around the corner. Therefore it is a safety issue for rider and pedestrians.

[red mermaid]

Sounds reasonable and sensible, what he told you.

I dealt with a guy today who didn't stop and give way at a stop sign and Im pretty confident that by the time I was finished with him he won't be committing that offence again.

[Dare]

Sounds reasonable and sensible, what he told you.

I dealt with a guy today who didn't stop and give way at a stop sign and Im pretty confident that by the time I was finished with him he won't be committing that offence again.

Are you a cop or vigilante? Either way we need more of this, come visit beach haven you could make a day of it (: +1

(when school comes out is when ~90% of the illegal shit happens but you would think peoples indicator stalks were wired directly to the coil with the amount of indicating people do around here)

[red mermaid]

The reason it won't happen again is because the driver is dead...failing to stop at a stop sign can do that to you.

[Dare]

by the time I was finished with him he won't be committing that offence again.

The reason it won't happen again is because the driver is dead...

You may want to lay low for a while..

[red mermaid]

Nope it was the truck planted in the right side of the car that did it.

[jono035]

For the record:

http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?hl=en&...58.86,,0,21.22

Always stop there and put a foot down, the cops being at that intersection is a once a week thing when I arrive (8-9am).

The give way going straight through is needlessly confusing (there already is a turning bay) and dangerous (there's always broken glass on that intersection for a reason).

The stop to merge is pointless because there is only 1 place traffic can come from and even in a low car you have about 100m visibility. It's there to protect the braindead pedestrians who walk out in front of you on princes street, no other reason. The reason they walk out in front is because people stop for them. Tell me that isn't a situation heading for disaster?

Pedestrians will walk out into the road and force you to go around them, or will step out as you approach making you run swerve to a wider line around a corner, this is what results in helmet dodging.

It's been a gigantic clusterfuck for at least 8 years, they're just doing particularly well at making it worse. This is a trend that is being repeated for the entire central city.

[motorbyclist]

today, with pillion, turning right into princes st, this girl walking down the hill stopped on the traffic island and looked straight at us.

she then waited....

and finally started crossing right at that perfect moment to get fucking run down and send all three of us to the hospital.

just downright fucking stupidity is all that was. I slammed on the horn and gave a fistful of gas (noise) and she decided she'd better run. glad i didn't try the brakes.