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#3113121 8-Aug-2023 10:26

Amazing how fast they move after being photographed!

(Going to the Chinese Consulate)

Blocking any view coming out of Arthur Street onto Hansons Lane!

Ignored by the Police driving past!

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#3116861 16-Aug-2023 17:32

Yesterday I was following a van.

There was a turning on our left and we were doing about 90.

Waiting to turn right out of the road on our left was a chap on a motorbike.

There was nobody behind me and nobody approaching me for a very long way.

Did the motorcyclist:

A) Wait until the van and my car had passed and pull out safely

Or

B) Pull out in front of the approaching traffic causing it to have to brake in order to avoid hitting him?

And they wonder why people die on our roads.

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#3116862 16-Aug-2023 17:43

Hmmm a rhetorical question! Of course the motorcyclist pulled out!

9/10 that I've encountered in my lifetime of driving always do!

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#3117497 18-Aug-2023 10:50

Repeat Offender parked yet again in the Hansons Lane Consulate Parking Lot - I mean Cycleway!!!!

Wardens take at least 20 mins to arrive after 10 minutes on hold to the CCC, then an eternity getting the job entered!

Only once have tickets actually been issued despite it being a multiple vehicles per day parking in it! (Despite the many calls!)

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#3117686 18-Aug-2023 16:13

Trio of cyclists going the wrong way down a one-way street. I "almost" backed into them when coming out of an angled parking space (car went beep, and I'd like to think I'd have noticed them anyway if it didn't, but who can say for sure?).

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#3117750 18-Aug-2023 17:05

msukiwi:

Repeat Offender parked yet again in the Hansons Lane Consulate Parking Lot - I mean Cycleway!!!!

Wardens take at least 20 mins to arrive after 10 minutes on hold to the CCC, then an eternity getting the job entered!

Only once have tickets actually been issued despite it being a multiple vehicles per day parking in it! (Despite the many calls!)

You know, I'm pretty sure living where you do is actually detrimental to your health. This level of external stress is just not normal.

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#3117761 18-Aug-2023 17:34

Kyanar:You know, I'm pretty sure living where you do is actually detrimental to your health. This level of external stress is just not normal.

The wife bikes to work in the Central City. Every day she encounters either:

A car driving up the Cycleway towards her!

Or a car parked in the Cycleway completely blocking it, so she has to dismount to get around it!

Or someone backing blindly out of a driveway in her path!

She said "Biking on the Roadway feels safer, as you are not lulled into a false sense of safety as you are expecting traffic trying to kill you!

For the record, CCC phoned at 1015hrs, Warden came at 1130hrs! (Usual response confirmed!)

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#3117849 18-Aug-2023 20:54

msukiwi:

For the record, CCC phoned at 1015hrs, Warden came at 1130hrs! (Usual response confirmed!)

It's similar with the Wellington City Council. They do hardly any proactive enforcement, but encourage residents to report illegal parking which is completely ineffective as the offending vehicle is long gone by the time the parking officers arrive.

Also, when I am out running I don't have my phone with me so can't report the problem immediately, and don't know if the illegally parked vehicle is still there by the time I get home.

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#3117985 19-Aug-2023 16:36

Why do you need wardens to enforce it in an era of cameras and tow trucks?

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#3117991 19-Aug-2023 17:05

msukiwi:

Amazing how fast they move after being photographed!

(Going to the Chinese Consulate)

Blocking any view coming out of Arthur Street onto Hansons Lane!

Ignored by the Police driving past!

ROTFLMAO....there is your problem, you expect the police todo anything for the average NZ citizen.

They are far too busy doing the high media interest stuff. Looking good is far more important than being good.

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#3117994 19-Aug-2023 17:10

Geektastic: Why do you need wardens to enforce it in an era of cameras and tow trucks?

Most of the illegally parked vehicles that I encounter are nowhere near a CCTV camera.

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#3117998 19-Aug-2023 17:20

Geektastic: Why do you need wardens to enforce it in an era of cameras and tow trucks?

Lots of Offences SHOULD be towable!

Tow trucks enforcing Cycleways / Yellow Lines / No Stopping Zones / Hydrants etc would solve the problem overnight.

Photograph offending vehicle - tow!

The Council backlash from the "hard done by" selfish driver who caused the offence is judged to be not worth it!

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#3122379 31-Aug-2023 19:24

Here I was thinking you should ride on the inside of the bus, not hang off the back

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/08/31/watch-man-spotted-hanging-onto-the-back-of-auckland-bus/

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#3123583 4-Sep-2023 15:29

Still surprises me, although it shouldn't with the number of times I see it now, the muppets watching a movie/tv show while driving. Even more so the ones with the phone sitting on the dash above the steering wheel blocking their view of the road. I do report to the Police Community Road Watch whenever possible but wish penalties were a lot harsher.

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#3123592 4-Sep-2023 15:39

ToPGuNZ:Still surprises me, although it shouldn't with the number of times I see it now, the muppets watching a movie/tv show while driving. Even more so the ones with the phone sitting on the dash above the steering wheel blocking their view of the road. I do report to the Police Community Road Watch whenever possible but wish penalties were a lot harsher.

You mean "...wish there were ACTUALLY Penalties and Enforcement!" ? (I do)

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