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Thread ID: 107481	2010-02-17 20:53:00	Are you crossing the road LEGALLY?	lance4k (4644)	PC World Chat

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859492	2010-02-17 22:42:00	Not everyone lives in crowded cities or does 30km/h on their bike.... I always hit the footpath if I decide that's the safer place to be, Though there is usually a 200m between pedestrians.....	Metla (12)
859493	2010-02-17 22:46:00	True Metla, but the vast majority of the population of NZ DOES live in a major city. Laws are made for the lowest common denominator ("the law is a blunt instrument" were the words I heard from a judge as recently as yesterday), to fit the majority of situations. I am sure that you would not get spoken to by a cop for riding on the footpath, if it was obvious that this was safer than riding on the road.	johcar (6283)
859494	2010-02-17 22:55:00	Cyclists on the road give me something to aim at :) :) You only have to see the idiots riding their bicycles along the Old Hutt Road on the "Clear Way" first thing each work day morning :( :(	Zippity (58)
859495	2010-02-17 23:35:00	The polizei in Western Auckland turn a blind eye to cyclists not wearing bike helmets, imagine they would do the same to cyclists on the footpath. And ignore the combo on footpath and nein helmet.	prefect (6291)
859496	2010-02-18 01:08:00	Did you know it's illegal to walk on a median strip: Median strips are not pedestrian crossings, use with care. It is illegal to walk along a median strip. Well obviously... Seriously dude? WTF?	Cato (6936)
859497	2010-02-18 02:30:00	When riding on the footpath you don't have a lot of time to hear or see cars coming out of driveways and you're a lot closer to the driveway so its more likely you'll get taken out when traveling at speed.	Orca (3098)
859498	2010-02-18 02:49:00	I am surprised that some of these forms of "illegality" are new to a few of you. When we were at primary school a Traffic Orificer used to visit regularly and drum this sort of stuff into us ignorant little rural savages. Things heard then have not been forgotten. That was in the days when Traffic Orificers travelling around schools were a dedicated bunch that specialised in this sort of thing, and they used to drive really cool Ford V8 coupes painted black (the fish man also used to drive one when he delivered fish on Fridays - but his was green and he had a thudding great slab of ice in the boot where he displayed the fish). It would be quite good to go back to those days... I would install large slabs of ice in the boot of the Traffic Orificers' cars, so that boy racers could be stored in there to cool them off a bit.	John H (8)
859499	2010-02-18 02:59:00	I remember in the sixties at Ngatimoti school the black and white cop car was a MK2 Zephyr. They came and taught us country bumkins about push bike safety and the give way rule and amazing traffic lights which are 50 miles away. Bit far to pedal. Agree with Orca ya would have to be on the lookout for cars when cycling on the pavement and it wouldn't be their fault if they took you out.	prefect (6291)
859500	2010-02-18 03:58:00	In the 50s my brother used to double me to school on his bike which our father made from broken old bikes. The Traffic officer came around and inspected the bikes regulary and said that our bike was a death trap and didn't have all the proper things on it, like a light, a bell or proper brakes. Susequently it was confiscated and we had to walk home with a note from the Inspector for our father to go visit him at the police station. Don't really remember what happened after that. But my Dad won some money on the gee gees and we got new bikes from a shop with all the bells and whistles for Christmas that year. Loved my dad we did!	lakewoodlady (103)
859501	2010-02-18 04:36:00	I agree with you that it's safer to cycle on the footpath. Just don't know why the politicians made it illegal to do so.Because it is supposed to be for Pedestrians!!	Pato (2463)
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