So what are YOUR issues.

[Jantar]

Compulsory spelling and grammar testing for KBers!
Oh alright then, just learn to make the destinction between "your" and "you're" - Take a stand against ignorance today!
Please...?

Great idea... Now write out 50 times "distinction".

[Korea]

Great idea... Now write out 50 times "distinction".

Oh Bugger...
I would edit the previous post, but I deserve this.

[Hitcher]

Oh alright then, just learn to make the destinction between "your" and "you're" - Take a stand against ignorance today!

"Don't call us, we'll call you." [From the BDOTGNZA].

[Rosie]

The most frequently voiced concerns were ‘ACC Levies’ followed by ‘Motorway speed limits for restricted riders’.

Restricted riders, or Learner riders?

[Ixion]

Mr Big Dave meant Learners. Restricted has no special speed limit.

[rasty]

Use MW bus lanes

Policing of driving not just speed

No policing of old guys on red bikes.

That covers it.

[35tickets]

Fuckin cheese graters - get rid off them (the person who thought they were a great idea should be flogged with his/her mouse cable)
ACC levies - look at biking experience instead of ringing everyone dry with over the top/all in the same catagory/ policies (insurance the same principle)
Better use of catseyes on the Desert Road (farkin scary on a dark winter night with high winds, fog, and heavy rain)
Instant towaways/wheel clamps for wankers who park in the bike only parks

I could go on.....but why invent the wheel, pretty much its all been said in the forum these are my main issues

[Big Dave]

Mr Big Dave meant Learners. Restricted has no special speed limit.

You only have to hear me say 'chance' and you know i still speak in Australian.

[Hitcher]

You only have to hear me say 'chance' and you know i still speak in Australian.

Hows about "pool" and "sensitive"?

[Big Dave]

Hows about "pool" and "sensitive"?

Not as bad as 'six' and 'chips'.

[Felicks]

What about this for an idea?

My suggestion: allow full m/c licence holders to purchase a special licence for a particular time period which would allow them to exceed the open road speed limit say up to 140km/h, on selected roads that a commonly used for m/c touring etc.

The licence wouldn't be a defence to idiot driving - just speeding.

I reckon it'd be an excellent way to bring in some extra money (the Govt always want that) from locals and tourists alike. I believe NZ is seen as a m/c meca from overseas and that a lot of people would be keen to take it up.

Hell, I would pay a few extra $$ for a legal thrill.

[Ulaa]

Hi Guys, first time poster, long time lurker.

From the point of view of someone who has started to Commute from West Auckland to the City and back every day (about a 35 minute ride one way) my issues are:

Without making up special rules for us and them:

1. I would like to see ALL the existing road rules actually being enforced.
EG the 3 second indication rule. I am so sick of having the guy already in my lane with a single flick of his light or simply no indication at all. This is going to involve bringing back traffic cops (and I never thought I would say that) or more cops on the roads, the driving in Auckland has moved beyond appalling and is now downright lethal.

2. I want people who chop and change lanes so they can get 3 seconds ahead of the other guy prosecuted for dangerous driving.

3. I want Amber /Red light runners to lose their licences on the spot. I saw a 20 ton truck run a red light opposite MOTAT, if the lady in front of me had been 1 second faster off the green change she would be dead.

4. I want every contractor who has ever repaired a road in the Greater Auckland area shot on the spot. I can point at 3 roads right now where only days after the "repairs" the road is already cracking. There are sections of Auckland streets that are downright lethal. The street that runs down next to the CBD police station is a good example. 20 years of bad road patching has left it an awful potted and rutted mess.

5. I would like the 70KMH for learners licences lifted and made the same as the standard road rules. As someone who can never break the law cause I ALWAYS get caught, keeping under 70kmh on some roads is downright dangerous as everyone is speeding up to pass me.

6. I want learner drivers limited in the power of the vehicles they can drive in exactly the same way as bikers are.
1.5 years limited to MAX 1300CC

7. I want taxi drivers, truck drivers, courier drivers and anyone who spends most of their working lives driving, re-tested every two years. Those guys generally get very arrogant and contemptuous of every one else on the road and become dangerous because of it.

8. I want "How to ride" motorcycle courses available in every major city. Not just exercises in 'scratch and sniff' test passing, but active training where cyclists are taught cornering, safe lane positioning etc, the basics of being on the road.

9. I want motorcyclists exempted from the proposed Auckland congestion charging system, as if the bastards havent taken enough money out of my pocket for work they havent done on the roading infrastructure in the last 20 years.

[XP@]

General inattention & crap driving should be punnished. Aye, give the cops video cameras (makes for good tv)

Speed cameras should be marked (unfair on visitors & tourists (on of my dads friends in the uk got sent a camera fine for doing 110 in a 100 zone when he was here on hols))

Raise the Learner limit from 70 to 100, or 90 with 10kph tolerance

Enforce ACC to fair-up and either:
1. make all vehicles the same
2. benefit more econimical vehicles
3. use fuel to collect the registration & acc levies.

[MikeyG]

i think the graduate system on motorbikes should also increase the size of bike you can ride on your restricted to perhaps 400cc

I dunno. There are some powerful 250's and 400's out there. Something like the NSW LAMS scheme with a list of approved bikes under 650cc all having a weight and power to weight ratio limit would be better. Learners would be allowed a bike they are happy to keep for a few years without being alowed something too powerful like a RS250

[froggyfrenchman]

It seems to have all been covered...
Put me down as another vote on:
White line paint
Power/weight restriction over the 250cc

I couldnt care less about motorways or Auckland's traffic problems. Thats a problem for a select few. You live there, your problem. Maby your issues can be fixed with the $6 its gonna cos you to ride across the bridge