Suggestions for speed limit enforcement

[marty]

yeah - last night. it was frigging ridiculous. i just wanna get home - everyone else seems to be in holiday mode. that's ok, as long as they cruise in holiday mode in the SLOW lane

[avgas]

i agree here - im still a little timid bout cutting through traffic since my accident, but i may as well drive if the bastards dont give you room. Gonna have to hook up an electric fan on my bike to switch on when the traffic does 1kmh.

[ResidentAngel]

In the interests of getting the road toll lower, I think we should all help out the police by suggesting stretches of road which offer potential for enhanced enforcement of speed limits.

I'll start the ball rolling by mentioning the southern motorway exit to Wellesley St. Here the posted speed limit goes from 80 to 50 then back to 80.

thats because there are major roadworks going on ....

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I have found that if your riding safely, and going a little bit fast, than if its perfectly safe and on an empty motorway, the peeps tend to just wave at me to slow down, rather than pulling me over .... but I guess I wouldnt risk travelling too fast cause I dont want to have to pay - I have better uses for my $ than giving it away ... ...

NOW ... if there was somewhere where you could just open up on long trips, that would be nice .... but the problem with another licence, is how the peeps are going to tell the difference when your travelling down the road ... we'd need a difefrent number plate or some form of identification ?

Being able to use the bus lanes on the new motorway additions coming on the Northshore of Auckland would also be nice ... could get us out of the main traffic ...

Riding within the law is one thing ... riding safely is another .... and I wonder how much the law recognises the difference? And ... how are you going to work out if a bikes frame is up to it ? I know that my VF's frame has been straightened ... does that mean its no longer good enough, or does the fact that I know its straight mean more than the fact its been dropped ?

[ResidentAngel]

How about the motorway norh from Albany to Orewa .. if there is a section of motorway that has relatively little traffic , and few off ramps, thats got to be one example ...

[MikeL]

thats because there are major roadworks going on ....

It depends on your definition of "work"...

[spudchucka]

LOL,yeah it answers the question for me perfectly.
Seeing as how I now drive an old Toyota Corolla and have always visualy fitted the scumbag profile,I guess I'm fucked if I get pulled over by you.
Such is the price if not being rich huh.
Nice to know nothing changes

There is a difference between a shitty car and an old car. I'm talking about the sort of crapped out, rusted out, back yard modified dangerous pieces of shit that are a danger to all of us. There are heaps of old but decent cars on the road.

As for dodgy looking people, let me expand on that. Dodgy isn't necessarily just scruffy or rough looking, often its things like the driver avoiding eye contact or slouching down in their seats, having a hoody or cap pulled down low over their faces. Also you get to know common distinguishing features amongst crims, gang colours for instance, the spaced out look of a druggy is a dead give away too.

The decision to pull a vehicle over and then subsequently to issue a ticket or not is unique to each police member. I've simply described some of the things that I consider when making such decisions. Each event remains unique and decisions made independantly of other events. However nothing is written in blood so I don't mean for it to be taken literaly.

[marty]

i *555'd a dodgy looking car, with an even dodgier looking hairy in it, on the southern on wednesday morning. it had JUST been stolen from the mercer food court not 10 minutes earlier - the owner was on the phone to comms when i called them. (OMG the system works sometimes!) he got picked up at drury.

i still got it

[Marmoot]

yeah, hey a bit of question here to our police constables:

When it involves swerving cars (drunk driver possibility) or a rather large debris on Motorway, do we go *555 or go 111?

[marty]

*555. it was bought in to try to offset the amount of wanky (there's a sign post down on smith st, there's a jaywalker on queen st) calls being made on 111.

[marty]

and your swerving car nowadays is more than likely someone texting. or getting a blowjob.

[Marmoot]

and your swerving car nowadays is more than likely someone texting. or getting a blowjob.

what's a blowjob?

[marty]

it's something you get from your 14 year old cousin while doing 120k on SH1 south of cambridge....

[Marmoot]

it's something you get from your 14 year old cousin while doing 120k on SH1 south of cambridge....

Ooooooooooooo

[marty]

and when the cops stops you and says - 'that was crap driving - you're either pissed or getting a blow job', you say 'i was getting a blowjob sir'

[Lou Girardin]

Or; she's pissed, I'm getting a blow job.

Slightly more seriously though, if the coppers went back to a sense of reasonableness, eg, up to 20 k's over before you got written up. (depending on real circumstances).
Then there would be a lot less angst directed their way.
It's not coincidence that the number of people surveyed as not believing the Police are doing a good job is almost exactly the same as those who received traffic tickets last year. About 1.3 million people.
It was always known that those who regarded the Police highly were those that had least contact with them. The new, minimal tolerance, policy has shown the truth of that.
If John Kelly, Steve Fitzgerald and Rob Robinson had a functioning brain cell between them they would recognise this. Common sense is not that common.