Opinion: Life In The Slow Lane

[carbonhed]

What roads do you frequent?

Well if you're still in Levin... the same as you.

I guess I don't have problems with people undertaking me because if I'm not overtaking then I'm in the left lane.

And for JayGTi... quite agree but if we outlaw overtaking on the left then we'd have to mercilessly slaughter all the retards who can't keep to the left.

[Jay GTI]

And for JayGTi... quite agree but if we outlaw overtaking on the left then we'd have to mercilessly slaughter all the retards who can't keep to the left.

Yeah I think it's too late for NZ drivers as a whole, there are plenty of bad habits that are technically against the law over here, but because they are by and large allowed to go on unpenalised, no-one cares. Changing the overtaking on the left law won't change this behaviour

But in the UK, due to this rule having been in place for a long time, it is generally accepted that the right lane is for those travelling at 85mph or above, the middle lane for the terminally ignorant who witter on about "if you don't speed, you won't get caught" and the left lane is for people in 1300cc cars who like to be mercilesly picked on by huge articulated trucks and builders vans.

[george formby]

When I came out here eons ago I was appalled by the standard of driving compared to blighty, I guess NZ was ahead on that one, but no longer.

I think the test covers safe & courteous driving but this is not enforced or encouraged. Over time a free for all mentality has set in, watching others driving like arseholes excuses others to do the same etc etc etc.
Perhaps it's time for gummint or land transport & their UK equivalents to look at the human failure on the road, police & public, to make things safer rather than reducing speed limits & investing in more speed cameras. As somebody said already, a pertinent word & a warning in the ear of lazy, ignorant drivers may be a lot more effective than shock advertising & speed cameras.

[Swoop]

Agree with other responses to this, people who create this situation (not keeping left when practicable) need to be redressed. If someone can overtake you on the left, then you should be occupying that lane instead.

A mate had an idea. Set up camera vans with the cameras poking out the right hand side. The van trundles down the motorway in the left hand lane doing a maximum of the posted speed limit and if it takes a photo of a car on the right that it passes (undertakes) then that vehicle gets a ticket in the mail for "failure to keep left".

Another string to the taxation department's revenue stream.

[DR650gary]

Well if you're still in Levin... the same as you.

Keep your eyes peeled

Unless you ride like a nana, your left indicator is safe from me

[carbonhed]

A mate had an idea. Set up camera vans with the cameras poking out the right hand side. The van trundles down the motorway in the left hand lane doing a maximum of the posted speed limit and if it takes a photo of a car on the right that it passes (undertakes) then that vehicle gets a ticket in the mail for "failure to keep left".

Another string to the taxation department's revenue stream.

Excellent idea... but replace camera with shotgun... no wait.... keep camera aaaand shotgun

[carbonhed]

Keep your eyes peeled

Unless you ride like a nana, your left indicator is safe from me

Levin has now become bandit country