Shafty Bugger
Gee I guess we could all just list in this thread those places and actions that fuck us off when we are traveling around this munted city of ours, and then Rasta can tell his buddies where the "hot " spots are according to KB....
they must be the worst places, cause we say they are, and we know, we travel them everyday......
Um , um, um, cant think of one myself, but Im sure there is one,
somewhere///
To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.
Forum whore
I come home via that route most days.Originally Posted by Kickaha
I consider that most drivers wouldn't cut the road markings if the Waimak engineers had engineered the intersection for drivers.
Yeah, I could fill the quota there, but I don't like hammering things that shiny engineering caused.
Thought provoking though. Rigid enforcement of every law, is it really a good ideal? I think not.
Long term, engineering is the way to sort a lot of traffic problems. Engineer roads for an outcome and that's what you'll get.
In the riders seat
So do I, I'm the guy not cutting the corner and having dickheads that do looking like they'll drive into the side of me
I wondered if it was designed like that to slow people down turning from Townsend right onto Fernside
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
Bogeyman
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to rastuscat again.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Forum whore
I don't know the corner in question personally but cutting corners at intersections certainly sounds a worthy cause for ticketing.
Why wouldn't you police an intersection like that?
Born to be mild
Because the design of the intersection itself leads people to do bad things. It should be the intersection that is ticketed.
Grow older but never grow up
In the riders seat
The intersection is inanimate it doesn't lead people to do anything, their shitty driving habits do
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
Loud and Uncouth
Like the booze-makers should be charged when somebody gets pinged for DIC??
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
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Shafty Bugger
Sorry guys, before you comment on that intersection, drive it,
then you will understand.
The engineer who designed it mast have been on drugs the day he did,
It just does not make sense to any person with logic, why it is how it is.
Agree with Rasta, it would not be really fair on drivers to heavily target that intersection.
Many people have complained about it, but the shinny pants still disregard public pleas,
""Of course our engineer must be right , we pay him big money to design that intersection""
To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.
Easy Biker
Townsend Road could be fixed by having a median island put in it from the intersection back up to and around the curve that would be too high even for four wheel drives to drive over. This is a typical intersection where the engineers have tried to line it up perpendicular at the junction whereas previously it just met at the angle.
Cheers
Merv
In the riders seat
I drive it every day and every day I see varying degrees of stupidity with people cutting it due to their laziness
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
Shafty Bugger
yup I read that, but there are others who have commented and have not driven it, who want to get on the band wagon of justice too
To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.
In the riders seat
I think they should build that median island during the day after people have gone to work and then video the carnage when unsuspecting motorists cut it as usual on the way home
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
Bogeyman
Predictable behaviour, then.
So why the fuck not build the intersection to accomodate predictable human behaviour?
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Easy Biker
... but Ocean1 its like Mrs merv always says to me when we see the ones that can't seem to steer within the lines - she says they can't have been any good at colouring in when they were a kid.
They need to learn to drive in the middle of the lane like they should - if they can't, build barriers so they will.
My other favourites are those that indicate a right turn start slowing down (any corner now, not the Townsend one) so you go to slip by them on the left as you are allowed to do when there is room and next thing holy shit to take a right turn they first swerve left. What the fuck for, why not just stay as close and left of the centre line as possible.
No matter what the road design there are morons out there. Some of us learnt to ride/drive on narrow back country roads that knew nothing of right design, transition curves and all that stuff - we just followed the road which followed the terrain usually and stayed on our side of it as much as we could and when narrow we sure as hell looked out for vehicles coming the other way.
Cheers
Merv
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