Double Yellows

[Pancakes]

A cyclist is counted as a motor vehicle, just like a park (reserve if you like) beach and all kinds of places are "roads" when it comes to the fuzz and getting taxed. Hey Kevie, *555 on speed dial? You should just take photos and post them to the cop shop. They don't do jack about that stuff,

[Ixion]

No, a bicycle is a "vehicle" but not a "motor vehicle".

[peasea]

No, a bicycle is a "vehicle" but not a "motor vehicle".

As is a skateboard, I kid you not.

[peasea]

Interestingly, I may apparently cross the yellow line when passing cyclists ! Unless they classify as animal drawn vehicles.

Some of them appear to be. (And they wear mumble pants!)

[Ixion]

Land Transport Act 1998

Vehicle—
(a)Means a contrivance equipped with wheels, tracks, or revolving runners on which it moves or is moved; and
(b)Includes a hovercraft, a skateboard, in-line skates, and roller skates; but
(c)Does not include—
(i)A perambulator or pushchair:
(ii)A shopping or sporting trundler not propelled by mechanical power:
(iii)A wheelbarrow or hand-trolley:
(iv)Repealed.
(v)A pedestrian-controlled lawnmower:
(vi)A pedestrian-controlled agricultural machine not propelled by mechanical power:
(vii)An article of furniture:
(viii)[a] wheel-chair not propelled by mechanical power:
(ix)Any other contrivance specified by the rules not to be a vehicle for the purposes of this definition:

I am *so* glad that "an article of furniture" is not a vehicle.

[peasea]

But so many pianos have wheels.

[Lucy]

But so many pianos have wheels.

A piano is not a piece of furniture! Is your username a mis-spelling of peasant?????

[What?]

A piano is not a piece of furniture!

Most of the ones I know of effectively are...

So, who's going to be the first to drop a Jap thou into a tea trolley??

[Lucy]

Most of the ones I know of effectively are...

So, who's going to be the first to drop a Jap thou into a tea trolley??

eh eh ehhhhhh!

[kevie]

its so typical of NZ law tho isnt it .... so many variables and halftruths and grey areas.
Like the current antismacking bill .... they say it isnt to make smacking illegal.... its just to remove the clause that allows you to smack your child........... like DOH ........ isnt that the same thing.

Road rules are so much like that ... they have a law that says on the road you have to do something .... and a law that says you cant .... for example >>> the law says if youre holding up traffic flows (which is ticketable offence) you MUST pull to the left and allow them to pass.... BUT !!! the same law says the margins of the road are NOT A LANE and you must not drive in them (also tickitable) aaaahhhhhhhhh isnt our lawmaking gurus wonderfu (whatever theyre smoking i want some) lmao
Oh and isnt the law still sitting in the dusty lawbooks that says if you are travelling at more than 2 mph you must have someone walking ahead with a red flag?
In NZ they seem to "tack on " laws rather than take the old one away and make a new one.
No wonder so many people aspecially on teh roads dont have a clue what the hell theyre doing .

[kevie]

A cyclist is counted as a motor vehicle, just like a park (reserve if you like) beach and all kinds of places are "roads" when it comes to the fuzz and getting taxed. Hey Kevie, *555 on speed dial? You should just take photos and post them to the cop shop. They don't do jack about that stuff,

ooohhhh tell the motorist that got stung in Dannevirke that passed me on yellows forcing the oncomming car to go onto the margin of the road, then passed a full fuel tanker on yellows on a blind hill then passed an ambulance in the path of an oncomming truck..... he was stopped in ZDannevagus and car got impounded and he went up on 3 counts of dangerous and 1 of driving disqualified ......... still wonder if he kept his GF tho when her car he was driving got into impound. But then , the cop said they have several *555 calls all at once regarding this motorist.

But I DONT report every bad driver action ... just the ones that are downright stupid and dangerous.

[mdooher]

Land Transport Act 1998

I am *so* glad that "an article of furniture" is not a vehicle.

The point is that you can pass over double yellows if the the thing you are passing is not a MOTOR vehicle( or drawn by an animal)... the definition of motor vehicle and vehicle are different.

Dumb thing to do I know but not insane in all circumstances

[peasea]

Most of the ones I know of effectively are...

That's where I was coming from; someone doesn't understand. Bless her little cotton socks.

[hsvboy06]

The point is that you can pass over double yellows if the the thing you are passing is not a MOTOR vehicle...

Go on then, give us a realistic example....

The driver must not pass or attempt to pass a motor vehicle or an animal-drawn vehicle moving in the same direction within the length of roadway on which the no-passing line is marked until the driver reaches the further end of the no-passing line, unless throughout the passing movement the driver keeps the vehicle wholly to the left of the no-passing line.

If it's all about not passing, rather than not crossing the lines, does that mean I can cross them when I'm not passing?! (eg cutting a corner) p/t

[Ixion]

If it's all about not passing, rather than not crossing the lines, does that mean I can cross them when I'm not passing?! (eg cutting a corner) p/t

Yes, but then you get hit with other charges, since the only lawful excuse for being on the wrong side of the road is passing another vehicle (or a few special cases, like following the directions of an enforcement officer etc)