Do you know give way rules changing on 25 March? Give way rule quiz

**orangeback** · 7th March 2012, 19:35

how do you think you'll go with new Oze rules ????
Quiz your self
http://www.nzta.govt.nz/traffic/arou...rule-quiz.html

**Motu** · 7th March 2012, 19:45

9 out of 9. They are not the OZ rules, they are the old Kiwi rules. I have no problems with them because that's how I learned to drive/ride. It's just getting back to the old rules that made sense.

**Mom** · 7th March 2012, 19:52

Yepper, same. Just like the olden days. What worries me is how much MORE vulnerable we are going to be at intersections after March 25.

Eyes open people.

**steve_t** · 7th March 2012, 20:04

Originally Posted by Mom

Yepper, same. Just like the olden days. What worries me is how much MORE vulnerable we are going to be at intersections after March 25.

Eyes open people.

How do you figure we're more vulnerable?

Cue smokeu to say how stupid the change is

**merv** · 7th March 2012, 20:10

Originally Posted by Motu

9 out of 9. They are not the OZ rules, they are the old Kiwi rules. I have no problems with them because that's how I learned to drive/ride. It's just getting back to the old rules that made sense.

Yep same as you it will be quite normal for me, especially as I have to be in that mode driving overseas and its only here that the current rules feel so ridiculous, except to those that argued otherwise on the earlier threads about this lol.

**SMOKEU** · 7th March 2012, 20:12

Originally Posted by steve_t

Cue smokeu to say how stupid the change is

These laws are too confusing. I'm staying off the roads around town wherever possible. Open road is a different matter.

**flyingcrocodile46** · 7th March 2012, 21:57

9 out of 9.

My wife killed a biker

**FJRider** · 7th March 2012, 22:20

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

... I'm staying off the roads around town wherever possible.

I feel so much safer now ...

**Macontour** · 7th March 2012, 22:23

It's simple really.

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**Macontour** · 7th March 2012, 22:50

Geez, I had forgotten how to do this.

Hope this one works!!!

**flyingcrocodile46** · 7th March 2012, 22:53

Originally Posted by Macontour

Geez, I had forgotten how to do this.

Hope this one works!!!

LMFAO Well done

**Katman** · 7th March 2012, 22:59

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

I'm staying off the roads around town wherever possible.

Christchurch should consider itself lucky.

**KiWiP** · 7th March 2012, 23:11

NZTA has recognised that changing the give way rule in one go may be too much to handle so the have at the eleventh hour decided to have a phased introduction.

To reduce the amount of times we need to think if we need to give way or not NZTA is saying we need only give way to the left at every second junction. This will half the amount of junction stress that will exist. It is advised that as you become more comfortable with the new rules you can extend your adoption to every third junction and then forth etc until you are giving way correctly on almost every junction. It is recognised that there will be occasions when it is not possible to comply (drunk, stoned, in control of a taxi, appearing in a tv advert etc) and so a vigorous application of the accelerator should get you out of most hazardous situations.

Motorcyclists are advised to buy off road bikes and get to their destinations through peoples back gardens.

**ellipsis** · 7th March 2012, 23:12

Originally Posted by Katman

Christchurch should consider itself lucky.

..we spend so much time weaving around mountains and valleys in the roads here that clowns in other vehicles are just another slight distraction...nobody,it seems has ever played by the rules when it comes to giving way to bikes...the weariness will/should always be there...accepting that your right of way is well defined and will keep you safe is a quick trip to oblivion...

**FJRider** · 7th March 2012, 23:27

The Give Way "rules" often get ignored ... as it is assumed (by some) that the first to the intersrection has right of way. (A bit like one way bridges)