Give Way rule date changed

[Oakie]

Both good changes. Carnage shouldn't be too great as the changes are pretty simple really ... as long as both parties are up with the changes.

[BMWST?]

i think the change from left turner give way to right turners is pretty straight forward...but the T intersection one will confuse many.Is good though in that he "main road" gets the flow.I guess in many urban areas many such intersections are already controlled with give ways.That (change)rule is the most dangerous for motorcyclists I reckon...

[merv]

Being one that had long been riding when the current rules came in during 1977 I thought they were incredulous then and have been wishing for a change back ever since. This will be a big improvement.

[Kendog]

Stand-by for traffic carnage.

The cagers can't use the current rules correctly......

You can imagine two cagers spending 30secs to figure out who gives way as the traffic builds up behind.

The thinking for 30 seconds is why intersection crashes have historically reduced in the period just after a rule change like this.

[pzkpfw]

http://www.nzta.govt.nz/traffic/arou...user-rule.html

They miss an opportunity. Picture D could show a second example where both left and right turners have their own lane to turn in to (i.e. they are turning into a multi-lane road).

At least it's good they say what doesn't change. I had one friend tell me he thought someone turning left onto a roundabout would have right of way over someone coming from their right. J.H.Christ!

[ukusa]

I think i will park my bike up for few weeks untill the carnage dies down

good idea, personally I had no problems understanding the current law. Unfortunately several idiots will still have problems with the new law

[superman]

I wonder how raped we are going to get by the media about this, every ad break, every news session leading up to the 25/03... It's going to be the RWC À la Traffic Rules!

[SMOKEU]

It's going to be pretty buzzy having to deal with these new rules. What a waste of time.

[Jantar]

Don't look at them as new rules, look at the situation as reverting to the old rules and you'll be pretty close.

[Swoop]

Why worry about the rule change?

There will have to be a massive media campaign* closer to the time and that will ensure everyone is equally confused.

Hopefully I will be overseas when this happens. With the demonstrated skills of kiwi drivers, the traffic jams will be quite large.





* Presumably from the same marketing retards that brought us "mantrol".

[slofox]

Being one that had long been riding when the current rules came in during 1977 I thought they were incredulous then and have been wishing for a change back ever since. This will be a big improvement.

Yep - right on. I have never trusted the current rules, even after 30+ years of them being in place. I'll be happy to revert to the "old" way. And I'll not trust the new situation much for yonks either...

[Tigadee]

I was taught that whoever was closest to the turning point had the right of way... till I came to NZ.

[Rosie]

...but the T intersection one will confuse many.Is good though in that he "main road" gets the flow.I guess in many urban areas many such intersections are already controlled with give ways.That (change)rule is the most dangerous for motorcyclists I reckon...

Unusually, I live in an entire suburb of uncontrolled T intersections. Because there aren't many uncontrolled T intersections out there in the world most people seem to have no idea what the current give way rules are. As a result, people tend to stop, stare at each other for a while, then generally go with the new give way rule (which is kind of intuitive, compared to the current one).
Some public education, along with a law change that reflects what people are currently doing should be a good thing IMHO.

[Sliver]

Few People gonna be bowled...

[cheshirecat]

'bout time too.

Will be still checking my wing mirror for those overtaking while I'm turing left, avoiding oncomming vehicles crossing the centerline turning in front of me whilst all the same time checking where I'm turning including peds who deliberately walk out in front of you whilst entering a supermarket car park, not to mention figuring out if any of the vehicles around me actually understand the existing rules or don't give a damm or have seen me and still don't give a damm.