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    Hamilton riders - a plea for sanity

    Hillsborough Terrace (in central Hamilton) runs beside the river from the bottom of Tisdall Street up the hill to join with Cobham Drive. It is a 50 kph zone all the way until just before Cobham Drive – from there it is 80 kph. The road is a no passing road (double yellow lines up the hill). Although traffic coming down the hill is relatively infrequent it is regular during the day, and there have been a few near misses with over taking vehicles going up the hill. Hillsborough Terrace is residential along one side (with residents ranging from toddlers to the elderly), and has a busy walkway along the river side.

    Over the past couple of years I have timed some vehicles at over 100 kph half way along the road, and still accelerating. Mostly the culprits are “boy racers” – I would say at least half. The rest are a mixture of people who really should know better. Increasingly though the speedsters are bikers – still only the minority but increasing.

    Now I am no angel – I have my share of demerit points. But speeding and overtaking along this city street is inconsiderate and potentially lethal. The collateral damage from a head-on here could be fatal for innocent pedestrians.

    I don’t know if members of this community are involved, but if so please slow down – it might be my kid’s life you save, or that of the old man next door as he crosses the road to walk his dog.

    Thanks for your consideration….

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    No problem - will try and help u sort out

    as u r aware the central Police station is up the road. I have noticed the speed creeep along here and was gunna talk to O/C STU, Hamilton. I also notice people do not stop at stop sign. I pak my car on this street and am sick of the speed.

    I will email your post and my comments to O?C STU and see if a unmarked car can get sat down here to assist in a bit of driver attitude change.

    safe motoring

    IGOR

    PS, hpefully they get that guy with the KTM950 that parks down there hahahaha

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    u have it wrong

    Quote Originally Posted by ajturbo View Post
    get a life

    u mean save a life. let god shine on your soul.

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    Quote Originally Posted by igor View Post
    u mean save a life. let god shine on your soul.

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    Quote Originally Posted by loftyk3 View Post
    The road is a no passing road (double yellow lines up the hill).
    For goodness sakes!
    Go and read your road code. You CAN pass where there are double yellow lines!!! DO NOT CROSS THEM however.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    For goodness sakes!
    Go and read your road code. You CAN pass where there are double yellow lines!!! DO NOT CROSS THEM however.
    Thats great, pass as much as you want but why would you be passing in a 50?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jahrasti View Post
    Thats great, pass as much as you want but why would you be passing in a 50?
    If the cages are doing 30 or 40kph perhaps???
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    If the cages are doing 30 or 40kph perhaps???
    fair enough, take a while to pass at 50 though any faster and you might get a ticket.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jahrasti View Post
    fair enough, take a while to pass at 50 though any faster and you might get a ticket.
    The have better things to do than hand out speeding tickets for no good reason. (Tui moment).
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    Took me a while to work out exactly where you were talking about... I can't actually recall a time I was heading 'up' that road, and I hardly ride down that one, as I either head towards the Pak 'n Save entry to the 80km/h zone, or head over the bridge and take grey street to the 80km/h zone... Hope you manage to get whatever's best sorted out...
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    Also took me a while to figure out what road you meant, i dont travel it, and i try my best not to speed on city streets. luckily for me i get to take 80km/h and 60km/h roads to tech each day

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    Wises is your friend. I have no idea what road he was talking about (:

    I must admit, it's tempting to start doing 80 a bit earlier than the sign on that street. What with the lack of oncoming traffic, the nice clear road, and the fact that it leads into an 80 k zone. But, if I'm ever tootling along there, I promise to restrain myself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    For goodness sakes!
    Go and read your road code. You CAN pass where there are double yellow lines!!! DO NOT CROSS THEM however.
    Can't really pass on this road without crossong the double yellow lines..

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    I used to work in the office-block on the corner of Radnor street and I know that cars/bikes usually hit the throttle there and wind it up all the way up the hill from that point. I also have a mate who lives directly over the river on Plunket Terrace and we can hear them from his place echoing off the hill behind the terrace as they put the pedal-to-the-metal

    Unfortunately, I'm sure pretty much every person who gets their drivers/bike license in Hamilton knows about that Hillsborough Tce section and has regularly fanged it up the hill to Cobham drive.

    I'm can empathise with you living on the road (I'm on a busy one meself) but its not exactly a high-density housing zone now is it, I cant think of a time I ever saw anyone crossing the road there, and there really is bugger all traffic coming back down the hill, and there's quite a lot of room there for a bike to manouver.

    I'm not condoning their behaviour, I just dont see things changing for you unfortunately.
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    The road in question goes under the Bridge St bridge, follows the river bank and joins up with Cobham Dr right in the middle of that S between the lights on Cobham and the round about outside the PaknSlave.
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