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Thread ID: 122870 2012-01-17 08:12:00 Road Rules Change 5am Sunday 25 March 2012 Bobh (5192) PC World Chat
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1254645 2012-01-17 08:12:00 It looks like road rules are due to change at 5am Sunday 25 March 2012.

www.nzta.govt.nz
Bobh (5192)
1254646 2012-01-17 08:32:00 It's about 20 years late, but we got there. Should make the roads a much safer place. But in the meantime, I'm getting a tank Phil B (648)
1254647 2012-01-17 08:37:00 So there's just over two weeks to educate the ignorant masses.

Can't say I'm looking forward to the weeks and months of confusion that will follow. Good time for the panel beaters however.

My own interpretation of the rule change boils down to the following: The vehicle that gives way is the vehicle that is crossing other lanes of traffic.

I reckon this is going to see some intersections get long lines of traffic stopped up along the centre lanes trying to get a break to allow them to turn right. Particularly when they're trying to cross two or more opposing lanes.
Paul.Cov (425)
1254648 2012-01-17 08:46:00 I suspect there will be a lot of traffic lights being upgraded with right hand turn arrows Greven (91)
1254649 2012-01-17 08:47:00 People dont drive by the road rules now so I dont think changing them will make any difference. Once it comes into effect, it wouldnt surprise me if there are more accidents initially due to confussion in some drivers who have been driving the way they have since day one. I guess we will see in a few months.

Time to weld dodgem bars around the car :)
Iantech (16386)
1254650 2012-01-17 08:57:00 Fortunately so many people don't know the right hand rule now on T intersections with no give way or stop sign, they won't realise it has changed back to the way they thought it was all along. Twelvevolts (5457)
1254651 2012-01-17 08:58:00 So there's just over two weeks to educate the ignorant masses.

So maths was not your most favourite subject at school?

I can relate to that :)

Roll on the mayhem in Johnsonville - the Woolworths (now Countdown) exit onto Broderick Road :)
Zippity (58)
1254652 2012-01-17 09:01:00 I seem to remember when they changed the intersection rules twenty odd years ago there were fewer accidents at intersections. Nobody was sure who had the right of way so everybody approached intersections with caution until they got used to the new rules. Bobh (5192)
1254653 2012-01-17 09:18:00 So maths was not your most favourite subject at school?

I can relate to that :)

Roll on the mayhem in Johnsonville - the Woolworths (now Countdown) exit onto Broderick Road :)

Between there and the bottom of Fraser Ave it should be insurance city - all just a minute from here so no doubt a few of you will want to wish me bad luck running the gauntlet.
Twelvevolts (5457)
1254654 2012-01-17 09:24:00 So maths was not your most favourite subject at school?

I can relate to that :)

Roll on the mayhem in Johnsonville - the Woolworths (now Countdown) exit onto Broderick Road :)
If you read the link in th OP, you will see the bit where the major campaign will be two weeks.
plod (107)
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