A wee warning to Christchurch riders

[JMemonic]

In case you don't know the Lyttelton road tunnel has a series of cameras, and has the ability to detect silly antics like overtaking, excessive speed etc through there.

RANT
Hopefully Mr idiot 2 smoker, reg 61Y** who decided to preform this manoeuvre today in front of me will not be to surprised when the ticket turns up in the mail, and for the other genius who took this same action in the morning and found the police car, double yellow lines apply to you as well as the cars.
/RANT

[imdying]

Yeah, always been there, behind the traffic lights, facing towards the back of you.

The wee turnaround bay/island at the port end, there's an intercom along the the camera there DAMHIK

[Mikkel]

That said - the air is terrible in that tunnel at times... You just wanna get out of there.

And it is very tempting to overtake through there - it's not like you lack visibility either. Safer than overtaking many other places around the countryside to be honest.

If you give in to the temptation I suspect it's a better idea to do it going towards Lyttleton than when going towards the checkpoint on the Chch side.

[JMemonic]

That said - the air is terrible in that tunnel at times... You just wanna get out of there.

And it is very tempting to overtake through there - it's not like you lack visibility either. Safer than overtaking many other places around the countryside to be honest.

If you give in to the temptation I suspect it's a better idea to do it going towards Lyttleton than when going towards the checkpoint on the Chch side.

Um nope these idiots overtook in a busy tunnel in small gaps, also have seen the blue uniforms blitzing the Lyttelton side of the tunnel with police in the control room.

I travel through there every day I go to work and know what you mean re the air quality, still having been in the control room I would not run the risk of being silly in there.

[sunhuntin]

only been in it twice [took a wrong turn trying to escape chch, lol.] and it put me off wanting to try it again. ended up having to ride with my hazards going due to being tail gated by a cager.

[MIXONE]

I went through it one day with 100+ harleys.The noise was physical.Awesome!!!

[Mikkel]

Um nope these idiots overtook in a busy tunnel in small gaps, also have seen the blue uniforms blitzing the Lyttelton side of the tunnel with police in the control room.

Oh well, you can do dangerous overtakes everywhere...

All I meant was that the tunnel in and off itself is not a dangerous place to overtake. (As in, when it's not busy.) Stupid maybe, but not dangerous.

You must be looking forward to when the grit is gone - Evans and Dyers are much nicer ways to Lyttleton.

[JMemonic]

Oh well, you can do dangerous overtakes everywhere...

All I meant was that the tunnel in and off itself is not a dangerous place to overtake. (As in, when it's not busy.) Stupid maybe, but not dangerous.

Stupid to the extreme, double yellows all the way through there and cameras to back it up with the ability to issue tickets off the recorded evidence, hence the warning.

You must be looking forward to when the grit is gone - Evans and Dyers are much nicer ways to Lyttleton.

Yes will be indeed unfortunately early starts its a no go though that's when all the heavy, oversize or dangerous loads come across normally

[laRIKin]

I know of a young guy who got court over taking in the tunnel in the weekend.:slap:

[Mokoro]

lol, another "to the (insert very rough description here) riding a (insert bike here), doing (insert illegal activity here), I hope you (insert insult here)" thread.

[T.W.R]

Just the same story as the Harley rider who died in there about 15yrs ago racing a jappa coming from the Lyttleton side and managed to shove the hog into the tunnel wall

Used to be a common event many years ago to see how quickly one could get the red lights flashing through the tunnel

[laRIKin]

Used to be a common event many years ago to see how quickly one could get the red lights flashing through the tunnel

Back then it was the noise that gave it away as there were no cameras then.

[Jerry74]

Oops big oops does riding thru there at 140 at night count ???

[Skyryder]

The tunnel is one place I do everything right. There is just no room for errors and no room for evasion.


Skyryder

[cruza]

I know of a young guy who got court over taking in the tunnel in the weekend.:slap:

Yep we report every offender we see, Time, date and rego . 100% success. No one wants a accident with dg loads going through there. Our last bad one was a funeral director side swiping a trailer and writing his car off.