Police getting tougher on speed tolerance

[Grumph]

Downtown Rangiora is about to get a 30 kmh main street. It's 50 at the moment, but engineered for 30, so everyone goes 30.

When I worked there in '68 you could do 30mph every day except Friday. Choked with cockies and their wives shopping on a Friday.

Times change.

[SaferRides]

Downtown Rangiora is about to get a 30 kmh main street. It's 50 at the moment, but engineered for 30, so everyone goes 30.

Then they'll say after a year how much safer the main street is since the limit was reduced.

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[Gremlin]

Downtown Rangiora is about to get a 30 kmh main street. It's 50 at the moment, but engineered for 30, so everyone goes 30.

My favourite currently is all the raised pedestrian crossings. Adv bikes don't need to slow down for them

Auckland CBD has two big one way thoroughfares (Nelson and Hobson) that are parallel. They're 40kph (were 50kph) and the side roads are 30kph (were 50kph). If you cross Nelson or Hobson, you start in a 30kph, go to 40kph for the intersection, back to 30kph for the bridge street, back to 40kph for the other intersection, then back to 30kph for the next side street. I swear someone on council is getting kickbacks from the signage company...

[neels]

Downtown Rangiora is about to get a 30 kmh main street. It's 50 at the moment, but engineered for 30, so everyone goes 30.

If you manage to get up to the heady heights of 30 on the main street of goon you're doing well, usually it's about 10 behind Nana looking for a parking space, or the lurching traffic jam caused by all the pedestrian crossings.

[pete376403]

The suburban streets around me are now 30kph. It's being roundly ignored (except by me, of course ).

If they wanted to they could ticket every driver...

Speed limits alone are useless because they are ignored by speeding drivers. I live on a long-ish, straight suburban street that forms part of a rat-run to bypass the main road. The street is undergoing a population increase, virtually every section other than my own has infill housing and the new regs allow even more density and do not require off street parking for residents. There are also a couple of daycare centres. The posted limit is 50, but I estimate the de-facto average is more like 70+, except on Friday and Saturday nights, when it is whatever the vehicle is capable of. I wrote to the council requesting speed bumps. I still have their "roading engineers" reply as to why they are not necessary, including "the increased on-street parking having the effect of making the road narrower and therefore less attractive for speeding drivers". I look forward to having this published in the local paper next time there is a serious crash in the street. The police very rarely patrol this street and even less frequently run a speed trap.

[jellywrestler]

Speed limits alone are useless because they are ignored by speeding drivers. I live on a long-ish, straight suburban street that forms part of a rat-run to bypass the main road. The street is undergoing a population increase, virtually every section other than my own has infill housing and the new regs allow even more density and do not require off street parking for residents. There are also a couple of daycare centres. The posted limit is 50, but I estimate the de-facto average is more like 70+, except on Friday and Saturday nights, when it is whatever the vehicle is capable of. I wrote to the council requesting speed bumps. I still have their "roading engineers" reply as to why they are not necessary, including "the increased on-street parking having the effect of making the road narrower and therefore less attractive for speeding drivers". I look forward to having this published in the local paper next time there is a serious crash in the street. The police very rarely patrol this street and even less frequently run a speed trap.

i got a blue airforce great coat and a hair dryer you can borrow. Worked real well when I lived at the chateau and we had ski bunnies ignoring the limits there. Was quite funny too

[Berries]

If you manage to get up to the heady heights of 30 on the main street of goon you're doing well, usually it's about 10 behind Nana looking for a parking space, or the lurching traffic jam caused by all the pedestrian crossings.

They put a 30 on the main street of Dunedin 15+ years ago. When people are around the traffic restricts the speed so it was pointless. At night and when nobody is around people do 50. Not sure if it ever got enforced, the minimal signage used gets lost in all the urban clutter and it has always been possible to enter the zone without seeing a visible road sign.

The paper today says it will become 10km/h.

My favourite currently is all the raised pedestrian crossings. Adv bikes don't need to slow down for them.

Yes, they usually warrant a quick blip of the throttle as well.

[FLUB]

Until 3 weeks ago I lived in a retirement village. Even the grey haired old whingers couldn't stick to the 20kph limit in their own village. There were calls for Stinger deployment. I kid you not!

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[F5 Dave]

I have a 1969 T125 Stinger. Must get it going.

What sort of deployment? Can I make some moneys?

[Grumph]

Speed limits alone are useless because they are ignored by speeding drivers. I live on a long-ish, straight suburban street that forms part of a rat-run to bypass the main road. The street is undergoing a population increase, virtually every section other than my own has infill housing and the new regs allow even more density and do not require off street parking for residents. There are also a couple of daycare centres. The posted limit is 50, but I estimate the de-facto average is more like 70+, except on Friday and Saturday nights, when it is whatever the vehicle is capable of. I wrote to the council requesting speed bumps. I still have their "roading engineers" reply as to why they are not necessary, including "the increased on-street parking having the effect of making the road narrower and therefore less attractive for speeding drivers". I look forward to having this published in the local paper next time there is a serious crash in the street. The police very rarely patrol this street and even less frequently run a speed trap.

Can i bring to your attention the chap in Belfast (the local one) who made a dummy speed camera. Reportedly it had an effect on traffic speed. I think it was up for over a year before he was told to take it down. AFAIK it's not illegal so long as you don't use an existing post there for another purpose.

[jellywrestler]

Can i bring to your attention the chap in Belfast (the local one) who made a dummy speed camera. Reportedly it had an effect on traffic speed. I think it was up for over a year before he was told to take it down. AFAIK it's not illegal so long as you don't use an existing post there for another purpose.

when i was at the chateau there were some fuckwits not even flincing at the 50km zone through a very icy village 6km from the skifield, and airforce great coat and a hair dryer was the answer. didn't take long for cars going downhill to flash uphill ones too, although there wasn't many leaving

[onearmedbandit]

Can i bring to your attention the chap in Belfast (the local one) who made a dummy speed camera. Reportedly it had an effect on traffic speed. I think it was up for over a year before he was told to take it down. AFAIK it's not illegal so long as you don't use an existing post there for another purpose.

Many moons ago a chap up in the Nth Island made a 'Slow Down - Speed Trap ahead' sign. The police charged him with something along the lines of interfering with police business. In court they argued that because of his presence he reduced the number of drivers being ticketed because he made them slow down. The judge deemed that as this was also the intent of the 'police business' that he interfered with the charges were dismissed.

[Berries]

Bloke in Palmerston did the same thing only there was no speed camera. Pretty sure it had the desired result and slowed traffic down at the cost of a bit of paint and a scrap piece of wood.

Compare that to $10,000 for a sign that flashes and tells you how fast you are going. I have a speedo that does that dickheads.

[george formby]

Many moons ago a chap up in the Nth Island made a 'Slow Down - Speed Trap ahead' sign. The police charged him with something along the lines of interfering with police business. In court they argued that because of his presence he reduced the number of drivers being ticketed because he made them slow down. The judge deemed that as this was also the intent of the 'police business' that he interfered with the charges were dismissed.

Quite a few years ago, teh Federales in the UK were putting cardboard cutouts of officers holding radar guns strategically on road sides, popping out of hedges and the like.
Worked a treat but the attrition rate was very high.... No doubt a few rear end accidents, too.
Back then they were allowed to be very sneaky.

[jellywrestler]

Bloke in Palmerston did the same thing only there was no speed camera. Pretty sure it had the desired result and slowed traffic down at the cost of a bit of paint and a scrap piece of wood.

Compare that to $10,000 for a sign that flashes and tells you how fast you are going. I have a speedo that does that dickheads.

i search for those signs as my dickhead speedos aren't accurate, at least those are supposed to be right and you can get an idea of your speedos accuracy.