Has the current propaganda focus on speed and road safety affected how you ride?

[MSTRS:Me]

Well maybee you could come up the North Island sometime & teach our cops about it.

Have you not heard the howls of protest when cops set up video cameras to catch corner cutters? Been done on HW50, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutakas - that I know of...

[Scuba_Steve]

Have you not heard the howls of protest when cops set up video cameras to catch corner cutters? Been done on HW50, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutakas - that I know of...

yea I know about the "corner cutters" campaign but they started that after noting their profit was down along with sending the crazy with the yellow paint NZ wide to help with boosting their profits back up. But I'm taking about slow drivers & drivers that stick to the right lane see it almost everyday & yet P.I.G.s do nothing about it seems most don't know anything about traffic other than "speed"

[Kickaha]

but they started that after noting their profit was down along with sending the crazy with the yellow paint NZ wide to help with boosting their profits back up"

Got some facts to back that up? or is it just your usual anti police ranting?

[scumdog]

yyet P.I.G.s do nothing about it seems most don't know anything about traffic other than "speed"

Ah well, maybe if people would not exceed the posted speed limits the said P.I.G.S's might have time to focus on other offending......

[MSTRS:Me]

... slow drivers & drivers that stick to the right lane see it almost everyday & yet P.I.G.s do nothing about it ...

Lanes that travel in the same direction are another subject altogether. The roadcode says keep left, but that booklet is a curious mixture of what's law and what's considerate or best practice.

[Scuba_Steve]

Got some facts to back that up? or is it just your usual anti police ranting?

what like this "Figures released to the Herald under the Official Information Act show $30.4 million, or $2.5 million a month, was collected from 340,368 speed-camera tickets issued nationwide in the 12 months to October 31.
However, those figures were down by about $5 million and almost 100,000 tickets compared with the previous October year." As for the crazy with the yellow paint just go have a look round the roads, there are alot which used to be white & now are yellow.

Oh & FYI I'm Anti P.I.G.s not police... there is a difference

Ah well, maybe if people would not exceed the posted speed limits the said P.I.G.S's might have time to focus on other offending......

And maybee if said P.I.G.s would get their priorities right & leave the scamming to the Nigerians, they could get back to their job & we would all be safer & better off for it. When it is upto me all speed signs will go from there current red circle to a yellow background & then my good man you'll be free to catch proper criminals.

[Kickaha]

what like this "Figures released to the Herald under the Official Information Act show $30.4 million, or $2.5 million a month, was collected from 340,368 speed-camera tickets issued nationwide in the 12 months to October 31.
However, those figures were down by about $5 million and almost 100,000 tickets compared with the previous October year." As for the crazy with the yellow paint just go have a look round the roads, there are alot which used to be white & now are yellow.

You still haven't provided any proof to back up your argument, corner cutting campaigns have been around for a lot longer than that

So far all you've shown is speed camera revenue is down for one particular period, how much did the corner cutting campaign (which have been going on for fucking years)boost it back up again?

[Latte]

Oh and I am currently looking at radar detectors. Thou the latest plan of plod, where they will install plate identification cameras at a distance apart and then have software that calculates how long it took to get from A to B (we are talking mutiple Km's apart here) and if you could NOT have done that distance in the short time it took you they will fine you, is a new twist. The way I understand it these cameras could be 50Km's apart... Makes me wonder if that gizmo James Bond had on his old Aston Martin (press button and the plate is swapped) is not the way to go...

Looks like I'll have a good excuse to buy a 2nd Aprilia now - need the extra plate for swapping over. I'm sure the wife will allow it

[Scuba_Steve]

You still haven't provided any proof to back up your argument, corner cutting campaigns have been around for a lot longer than that

So far all you've shown is speed camera revenue is down for one particular period, how much did the corner cutting campaign (which have been going on for fucking years)boost it back up again?

Hey my association is more a light-hearted "this is probably whats happening" one, not to be taken too seriously I am not making any concrete claims, but none the less I am putting together falling profit & the expanding "areas of attack" its only recently the BIG push with things like corner-cutters, red lights etc along with more roads (most which just shouldn't) getting the crazy with the yellow paint treatment. As for this campaign has been going on for "years"? umm yea... about 1?. Cause I aint seen much of it previous.

[Kickaha]

As for this campaign has been going on for "years"? umm yea... about 1?. Cause I aint seen much of it previous.

I can remember them from at 5 years + ago in the Marlborough region, redlight campaign 15 + years ago in Chch

[swbarnett]

Ah well, maybe if people would not exceed the posted speed limits the said P.I.G.S's might have time to focus on other offending......

This implies that speeding is the number 1 priority. Why should it take precedence over truly dangerous driving behaviour?

[MSTRS:Me]

Cos speeding is the only one that can be 'seen' at a distance. And people suddenly remember how to drive when there's a (marked) cop close-ish.

[p.dath]

I know, we need stupid detectors!

[Scuba_Steve]

I know, we need stupid detectors!

well thats where my plan can help. The learners licence will involve filling petrol & tire pressure (weeding out the truly retarded) the learners period will be done on 2-wheels (learning the road b4 getting in tonne killing machines & weeding out yet more incapable people) restricted will involve merging with instant fail for treating it as a "give-way" or the likes, & automatics will be banned unless needed i.e. disabled thus weeding out what should be the last of the retards. It's probably not perfect but should go a long way to keeping the "stupid" away from the road

[Ocean1]

Got some facts to back that up? or is it just your usual anti police ranting?

Probably the usual. I gota say, though, that the first time I rode northwards over the hill after that blitz of double yellow I laughed and laughed: every single straight bit of yellow line had multilple yellow dotted lines trailing over into the right hand lane and back again.