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    Public service Announcment

    One of our sales guys was pulled on the Northern M/Way this morning for overtaking on the left and riding a short way on the bus lane.
    He was warned for both on provision that he passed the word about the correct way to filter.
    It appears that the wrong info is being passed on by some bike shops (not AMPS) who need to learn the legalities of m/way use. Search this site for the innumerable threads on the subject.
    An interesting thing the cop said, was that they have been pushing for bikes to be able to use the m/way bus lanes, but Transit is adamantly against it.
    Apparently I'm also a pain in the gluteous maximus to the local cops.
    I'm really touched by this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lou Girardin
    Apparently I'm also a pain in the gluteous maximus to the local cops. I'm really touched by this.
    Why, what have you done now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by crashe
    Why, what have you done now?
    Beats me. Maybe he's a mate of Spuds. :spudwave: Or I might be traffic-satan incarnate.
    Or maybe
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    >>Apparently I'm also a pain in the gluteous maximus to the local cops.<<

    You're reading too much into it - all they have done is met you

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    Actually ya know on the whole it really doen't make sense NOT to allow bikes on the Motorway bus lanes.
    Also doesn't make sense that a new law can be overturned by an old law
    To mee its like transit are saying -up yours to the government
    You could even say we are doing our civic duty supporting the new law
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    Do's this count for being a pain in the gluteous maximus.
    I noted a rolling of eyes when pulled over at a check point when the said officer had to repeat what he said coz my radar detector was turned up to load and his car was still transmitting. It was fecking noisy in my helmet but he got the message. Yes I did turn it off but it was still fun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave
    >>Apparently I'm also a pain in the gluteous maximus to the local cops.<<

    You're reading too much into it - all they have done is met you
    Cops and I meet VERY infrequently. It's plainly a conspiracy. The paranoids are out to get me.

    BTW. Further to the bus lane thing.
    Apparently one of the things Transit objects to is that bikers would ride across on/off-ramps in front of cars if they were allowed to use bus lanes.
    I don't know about anyone else here, but that's the last thing I'd do. I want to grow old (er).
    Surely most bikers would merge into the left lane before they got to the ramp, then rejoin the bus lane when we're well clear of the merging cages shit fight from on-ramp to m/way lane.
    Does ANYONE at Transit NZ ride a friggin' bike?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lou Girardin
    One of our sales guys was pulled on the Northern M/Way this morning for overtaking on the left and riding a short way on the bus lane.
    He was warned for both on provision that he passed the word about the correct way to filter.
    It appears that the wrong info is being passed on by some bike shops (not AMPS) who need to learn the legalities of m/way use. Search this site for the innumerable threads on the subject.
    An interesting thing the cop said, was that they have been pushing for bikes to be able to use the m/way bus lanes, but Transit is adamantly against it.
    Apparently I'm also a pain in the gluteous maximus to the local cops.
    I'm really touched by this.
    I saw the whole incident this morning, first I thought the cop was going to nail me for filtering but once I saw the other bloke I knew it wasn't me. Nice to know that he didn't get any fines.
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    shit Id better watch out for that.
    If anyone knows the onramp going into the city from Mt albert/GT North road the bike circle one (great fun with no traffic)
    I ussually just trundle along on the left then when I get to the motorway just indicate to turn into the lane until a gap opens up.

    might need a new strategy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lou Girardin
    Cops and I meet VERY infrequently. It's plainly a conspiracy. The paranoids are out to get me.

    BTW. Further to the bus lane thing.
    Apparently one of the things Transit objects to is that bikers would ride across on/off-ramps in front of cars if they were allowed to use bus lanes.
    I don't know about anyone else here, but that's the last thing I'd do. I want to grow old (er).
    Surely most bikers would merge into the left lane before they got to the ramp, then rejoin the bus lane when we're well clear of the merging cages shit fight from on-ramp to m/way lane.
    Does ANYONE at Transit NZ ride a friggin' bike?
    So, do the buses drive across the on/off ramps ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lou Girardin
    Apparently one of the things Transit objects to is that bikers would ride across on/off-ramps in front of cars if they were allowed to use bus lanes.
    They shouldn't worry about that. If it happens, only 1 person would die: the rider.
    If a bus would ride across on/off ramps....now that would be a different number of deaths .....
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    Buses do drive across the ramps and barge into traffic lanes at overbridges, actually they do pretty much what they like.
    Apparently that's safe enough for Transit. Might is right.
    Realistically Transit's reasoning is bullshit. It has nothing to do with safety, because we all know it's safer on a bus lane than risking a Liberace or sideswipe from a cage when you're in a traffic lane. It has more to do with a killjoy, "if cars can't do it, why should they?" attitude that permeates so much of our public services.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lou Girardin
    Liberace

    Now that is funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave
    Now that is funny.
    I can't claim it. It was originally used by one of the commentators at Bathurst in the '80s.
    F'ing Aussies even have the best one liners.
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    Come to Christchurch all of you!

    no (real) issues like that here. Just wide open spaces punctuated with corners that make the corkscrew at Laguna look like a roundabout.

    seriously, I didnt realise you WERENT allowed to do this.

    when I commuted on a motorbike in Wellington, no one seemed to mind motorbikes on the mway service lanes.... (2 lanes stopped, bikes in the service lane going 80k's.... ha ha hah )

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