Police getting tougher on speed tolerance

[SaferRides]

Congrats to LTNZ for completely fucking the Wairarapa weekend economy. I'm friendly with a few cafe owners in Greytown and Carterton and the massive drop in custom isn't seasonal, it's simply people can't be fucked spending time in the Wairarapa with the drop in speed limits and the massive fuckup that is the 4 years of road works between Carterton and Masterton and the current 30kph speed limit for most of that journey. The youngest took Mum out for brunch on Sunday and the cafe we went to was complaining that people weren't turning up for pre-booked tables so they were having to seat people outside while they waited to see if the reservations would turn up. Rusty, who owns the French Bakery in Greytown has completely dropped his weekend menu and just does cabinet food now. Not worth paying a chef to do half a dozen orders over 2 days.

That is a good point, and one apparently ignored by Waka Kotahi and councils. My typical Sunday ride is now in the North Waikato, as they at least continue to maintain roads in a reasonable condition and don't have the same speed limit chaos as AT has managed. I usually fill up before heading home to avoid the Auckland fuel tax...

[F5 Dave]

I went straight up sh2 for the first time since change a couple of weeks back. Geez, how tedious on bullet straight roads. Some enelected safety genius making blanket decisions with no though process at all. Made resolution to not do that again.

[rastuscat]

I went straight up sh2 for the first time since change a couple of weeks back. Geez, how tedious on bullet straight roads. Some enelected safety genius making blanket decisions with no though process at all. Made resolution to not do that again.

It would have been signed off by whichever Council it is in. It's how limits work. Unless it's a State Highway.

[jellywrestler]

It would have been signed off by whichever Council it is in. It's how limits work. Unless it's a State Highway.

i'm pretty sure the SH in the SH2 he wrote does mean it's a state highway?

[Berries]

I went straight up sh2 for the first time since change a couple of weeks back. Geez, how tedious on bullet straight roads. Some enelected safety genius making blanket decisions with no though process at all. Made resolution to not do that again.

You did not die or get seriously injured so it worked.

Here you go. Although they have backed out of doing state highway speed limits this is the process all the local authorities have to follow - https://www.nzta.govt.nz/safety/part...and-transport/

The future has been summarised in this thread before but basically 80km/h open road speed limit, 60km/h on unsealed roads, 30km/h on residential roads and near schools and 40 on urban arterials. There will be a few odd ones on the fringes and up north you will have the occasional 110km/h speed limit on the expressways/motorways but give it a year and that's what we will be looking at.

You don't need to agree, the fine will be in the post after a massive expansion of the speed camera programme - https://www.nzta.govt.nz/safety/part...afety-cameras/

And I reckon we will still do 300 people a year.

[pete376403]

I see a market for polarised number plate covers. The material already exists - security screens for computer monitors. Quite transparent when viewed straight on, a few degrees off and they are completely opaque. And an upsurge is gatsoed cameras. Will help get rid of old tyres.

[Berries]

The new cameras are all MAC enabled so they can read the chip they inserted in your arm with the Covid vaccine when you ride past so no need for number plate recognition.

Only works below 120km/h though.

[jellywrestler]

The new cameras are all MAC enabled so they can read the chip they inserted in your arm with the Covid vaccine when you ride past so no need for number plate recognition.

Only works below 120km/h though.

so Harley riders have nothing to worry about then

[roogazza]

or do what we used to in the seventies, take the plate off and stick down your jacket before the Rimutaka GP on Sunday mornings.......

[Berries]

or do what we used to in the seventies, take the plate off and stick down your jacket before the Rimutaka GP on Sunday mornings.......

i wonder how those new black plates work? Am sure they would have been tested but from quite a few angles they are impossible to read when the suns out.

Can you even have a new black plate on a bike?

[onearmedbandit]

i wonder how those new black plates work? Am sure they would have been tested but from quite a few angles they are impossible to read when the suns out.

Can you even have a new black plate on a bike?

I’ve seen a bike with one recently.

[Scuba_Steve]

Congrats to LTNZ for completely fucking the Wairarapa weekend economy. I'm friendly with a few cafe owners in Greytown and Carterton and the massive drop in custom isn't seasonal, it's simply people can't be fucked spending time in the Wairarapa with the drop in speed limits and the massive fuckup that is the 4 years of road works between Carterton and Masterton and the current 30kph speed limit for most of that journey. The youngest took Mum out for brunch on Sunday and the cafe we went to was complaining that people weren't turning up for pre-booked tables so they were having to seat people outside while they waited to see if the reservations would turn up. Rusty, who owns the French Bakery in Greytown has completely dropped his weekend menu and just does cabinet food now. Not worth paying a chef to do half a dozen orders over 2 days.

Also watch out for the hidden speed camera in the middle of Carterton in the new 40kph speed zone.

The 80kph speed limit between Featherston and Greytown. WTF is that about? It's 3 straights joined up by 2 corners. They've made all these changes and they very seldom Police it. I just set cruise and sit dead on the limit. I get overtaken repeatedly. I get angry rage fits from people who cannot get into their tiny fucking heads that the speed limit at the North is 50kph right through to the 80kph limit. The "dangerous" bit of road was between Carterton and Masterton. The deaths on that stretch of road they keep referring to are getting close to a decade and more ago and the only accidents are the constant damage to vehicles from poorly managed road works. At this point LTNZ are just taking the piss and they can get fucked.

Word on the street is they're planning on fucking up the other side of the hill in Upper Hutt next, apparently they want to piss away a shit tone of money installing center barriers, right before they piss away even more retarding SH2 down to 50-60km/h from pretty much the "welcome to Upper Hutt" to the other "welcome to Upper Hutt", along with adding yet another traffic light

... It's actually gonna be quicker to use the council roads than it is our 2nd main Highway & that is fucking ridiculous!

[pete376403]

Word on the street is they're planning on fucking up the other side of the hill in Upper Hutt next, apparently they want to piss away a shit tone of money installing center barriers, right before they piss away even more retarding SH2 down to 50-60km/h from pretty much the "welcome to Upper Hutt" to the other "welcome to Upper Hutt", along with adding yet another traffic light

... It's actually gonna be quicker to use the council roads than it is our 2nd main Highway & that is fucking ridiculous!

So turn off at Maoribank, Fergusson Drive to the maidstone underpass, Goodshed road to the roundabout, Lane Street to Alexander road, through the back of silverstream and back out the rail underpass. My street runs parallel to Lane street and it appears there is no speed limit judging by vehicles passing my house at night (and cops are never seen) so you could well be right

[neels]

Have just received notification in the letterbox of the reduction of speed around where I live, apparently because we live within 1 light year of a school.

I was amused by the way it was expressed as proposed altered speed limits, pretty sure the only alteration will be downwards, and will proceed as proposed regardless of feedback.

What is interesting looking at the Christchurch council map and reading the comments attached to it is that most of the feedback appears to be in favour of reducing speed limit. I suspect anyone interested in getting somewhere in reasonable time is going to be outvoted, by neurotic mothers who drive their kids to school anyway and are quite happy to double park in the middle of the road, and grumpy boomers who think the world isn't safe enough and have forgotten their days of driving home pissed in the HQ wagon with 8 kids in the back.

Anyway for all you churchur people, here is your future.....

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[Berries]

I liked your response.