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#2986096 22-Oct-2022 13:19

Behodar:

Someone's branded company car straddling both the yellow lines and the footpath just over the road from my place.

Take a photo/s and send it to the correct authority.

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#2986193 22-Oct-2022 13:38

Why are most Ute drivers total pillocks? (GZ won't let me use the term I wanted to use!)

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#2986323 22-Oct-2022 18:12

Scared the bejeezus out of me today coming off the motorway on to the Hutt Road heading North I was easing into the left lane next to the hill and which merges from the motorway, an idiot instead of giving way tried to out run me to pass in front of me on my left, just managed to see him in time to swerve and brake. If I had clipped him at that speed car would have been tossed into the right lane of traffic and it would have been deadly for a lot of people.

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#2986901 23-Oct-2022 13:46

Just witnessed a CityHop logo'd van jump the kerb on Hansons Lane after leaving Arthur Street, and proceed driving up the Cycleway!

Phoned the Company (Auckland Number) and actually got a human....well done for that in the middle of a long weekend.

Gave them the details of the van and reg number, time it occurred etc. Said they would contact the driver etc.

Pointed out the Great Advertising for their brand - NOT!!!

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#2987007 23-Oct-2022 21:33

I hope CityHop fines this idiot.

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#2987068 23-Oct-2022 23:01

freitasm:

I hope CityHop fires this idiot.

There I FTFY. 😎

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#2987083 24-Oct-2022 07:23

Technofreak:

freitasm:

I hope CityHop fires this idiot.

There I FTFY. 😎

What makes you think the driver was a CityHop employee? It's much, much more likely he/she was a customer.

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#2987084 24-Oct-2022 07:24

Technofreak:
freitasm:

I hope CityHop fires this idiot.

There I FTFY. 😎

CityHop is a vehicle hire company (well, they call it a sharing service). How can they fire someone hiring their vehicle? The vans often sit outside Mitre 10 stores etc, so you can hire a van to get your new outdoor furniture home, when it won't fit in the Swift you arrived in.

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#2987085 24-Oct-2022 07:25

Cityhop is a car share service, is it not?

It would be interesting to know how car share services deal with this sort of thing. They would need to have evidence of bad behaviour in order to avoid malicious complaints, but they should take very firm action when any such evidence emerges.

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#2987093 24-Oct-2022 08:38

Eva888: Scared the bejeezus out of me today coming off the motorway on to the Hutt Road heading North I was easing into the left lane next to the hill and which merges from the motorway, an idiot instead of giving way tried to out run me to pass in front of me on my left, just managed to see him in time to swerve and brake. If I had clipped him at that speed car would have been tossed into the right lane of traffic and it would have been deadly for a lot of people.

Speeding up to prevent people merging has been the 'new game' for a wee while now. It usually involves people on the motorway speeding up to prevent those on on-ramps from merging in front them. The person who speeds up then, more often than not, has to slow down dramatically to avoid hitting the car in front of them. It's a game best played when the outside lane is empty.

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#2987098 24-Oct-2022 09:21

Dratsab:

Eva888: Scared the bejeezus out of me today coming off the motorway on to the Hutt Road heading North I was easing into the left lane next to the hill and which merges from the motorway, an idiot instead of giving way tried to out run me to pass in front of me on my left, just managed to see him in time to swerve and brake. If I had clipped him at that speed car would have been tossed into the right lane of traffic and it would have been deadly for a lot of people.

Speeding up to prevent people merging has been the 'new game' for a wee while now. It usually involves people on the motorway speeding up to prevent those on on-ramps from merging in front them. The person who speeds up then, more often than not, has to slow down dramatically to avoid hitting the car in front of them. It's a game best played when the outside lane is empty.

I put this sort of thing down to the general lack of motorways in NZ.

If you drove like this in the UK or Europe, you would soon realise that the net result was that you never got anywhere very fast because there are simply so many junctions with on ramps (eg the M25 around London has 33 junctions in 117 miles) that traffic would be at a standstill even more so than it is already.

Kiwis do not get much practice merging at speed which - combined with a number who delight in ignoring Wheaton's Law when driving anyway - results in this nonsense.

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#2987107 24-Oct-2022 10:50

Didn't know that phrase had a name, although I often put the F word in and end with head.

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#2987556 25-Oct-2022 08:42

People who think advertising their brand like this is a good idea!

Hansons Lane Cycleway / Footpath parking!

Company phoned, they were good, driver then moved (Drove Up the Cycleway! - To the NO STOPPING on Arthur Street (8-9am)! Phoned AGAIN! He moved again!

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#2990981 2-Nov-2022 13:19

Bullseye!

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#2990992 2-Nov-2022 13:55

Ute and Tesla drivers are doing my head in lately.... ute drivers seem to think they own the road and tailgate etc, and Tesla drivers seem to think that the car will do the calculations for them in deciding if they'll fit in that 1m gap between me and the vehicle in front with its brake lights on.

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