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[pzkpfw]

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I was utterly gobsmacked to read a post about actually choosing to cross the double yellow lines both on a bike and in a car. Get the fuck off the road if you can't be bothered to do it properly and safely.

You are making quite an assumption about what is safe when and where. Unless the yellow line is itself made of extra slippery paint, it's mere existence doesn't always mean "unsafe" in all situations in all cases.

(P.S. Crossing yellow is crossing yellow, double yellow doesn't make it super-extra yellow.)

[FJRider]

There actually isn't double yellow lines. The yellow line on the other side of the road has absolutely no relevance to you at all. All you can have is a single yellow line. The other side can then also have a single yellow line for them...

Looks like double yellows to me ...


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[pzkpfw]

Looks like double yellows to me ...

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I think you missed the point.

(Or were you joking and I missed your point? Now I've confused myself.)

[FJRider]

You are making quite an assumption about what is safe when and where. Unless the yellow line is itself made of extra slippery paint, it's mere existence doesn't always mean "unsafe" in all situations in all cases.

(P.S. Crossing yellow is crossing yellow, double yellow doesn't make it super-extra yellow.)

But at least when YOU cross the double yellow lines ... you nothing will be coming the other way on your side of the road ... eh .. !!! Because It is against the rules ... right ... ???

[Coolz]

Yeah! After seeing how they have been abused by our traffic managers I can't take them seriously any more.

Ultimately this type of abuse is likely to see the intent rewarded with the exact opposite result.

If they want to make straight flat sections of road no passing (as opposed to genuinely dangerous and/or deceptive sections) then they should use an alternative method.

In sport, work, some leisure activities, or anything else governed by a set of rules, people will follow them without a second thought. They realise if everyone plays to the same set of rules the system must be fair to all. Yet when it comes to the road, the most deadly game of all, people think they have the right to analyse the rules and only follow those which they agree with.

[FJRider]

I think you missed the point.

(Or were you joking and I missed your point? Now I've confused myself.)

Maybe ... you missed mine ...

[Zedder]

You are making quite an assumption about what is safe when and where. Unless the yellow line is itself made of extra slippery paint, it's mere existence doesn't always mean "unsafe" in all situations in all cases.

(P.S. Crossing yellow is crossing yellow, double yellow doesn't make it super-extra yellow.)

I suppose you treat red traffic lights the same way. Forget about the legality and being safe, it's only a red colour.

[Scuba_Steve]

And if the cop ain't wearing his hat he can't give you a ticket anyway...

It's doubly true, cause not only did a cop tell me but he did it on teh interwebs

[Ocean1]

Looks like double yellows to me ...

It does eh?

Is there some reason they're there that's not obvious in teh pic?

[pzkpfw]

I suppose you treat red traffic lights the same way. Forget about the legality and being safe, it's only a red colour.

Never happened to me, but go read some of the stories of folk who have bikes that don't trigger some of the sensors. Most normal people will eventually just (after checking very very carefully that nothing is coming) go.

And you still equate legal with safe as though they mean the exact same thing. Sure, blasting through a red is illegal and unsafe. But carefully going through a red, in certain circumstances, may still be illegal - but might not be unsafe (in certain circumstances).

(Though again, never done it myself in a car or on a bike. Though I did get laughed at once, when I was 14 years old, sitting at a red on my bicycle one night with no cars for miles around. Can't win, can I?)

[pzkpfw]

But at least when YOU cross the double yellow lines ... you nothing will be coming the other way on your side of the road ... eh .. !!! Because It is against the rules ... right ... ???

Who said anything about double yellow lines? (Not, of course, that it makes a difference to the offence of crossing a yellow line.)

[rastuscat]

Believe it or not, there are things that are there that you might not see, sometimes. That's why people turn across the path of oncoming bikes. Trains too.

The folk who think it's okay to cross the centreline to straighten a piece of road don't allow for the fact that one day they might not see the oncoming thing they didn't see. Unlikely to be a train, but can't rule it out.

The best way to avoid hitting a vehicle on the other side of the road is to blindly comply with the REQUIREMENT (it's law, not just a good idea), to STAY ON YOUR OWN FECKING SIDE OF YELLOW LINES.

Right, back to the tea and shortbread. Deep breaths required.

[Zedder]

Never happened to me, but go read some of the stories of folk who have bikes that don't trigger some of the sensors. Most normal people will eventually just (after checking very very carefully that nothing is coming) go.

And you still equate legal with safe as though they mean the exact same thing. Sure, blasting through a red is illegal and unsafe. But carefully going through a red, in certain circumstances, may still be illegal - but might not be unsafe (in certain circumstances).

(Though again, never done it myself in a car or on a bike. Though I did get laughed at once, when I was 14 years old, sitting at a red on my bicycle one night with no cars for miles around. Can't win, can I?)

I never wrote I was equating legal and safe. Luctor et emergo? You're emerging out your arse!

[FJRider]

It does eh?

Is there some reason they're there that's not obvious in teh pic?

There is actually. As usual streetview wont give the best look at the road. It's the road between Alex and Roxburgh. This bit of the road is straight(ish) but rises and falls a few times ... and has caught a few out. (even with the double yellows ...

And quoting an imbedded image is verboten ... especially when THAT particular post was a dig at Gremlin.

[unstuck]

Just out of milton today heading towards balclutha, there was a car up front that overtook a van on double yellows with a corner coming up, only a couple of hundred meters to the passing lanes. Car that was coming around the corner luckily had an alert driver behind the wheel and moved over far enough not to collect the car that was over the lines. There are some real dangerous fuckers out there.