South Island driving route
-
We should have road marking that shows when an overtaking lane is ending like they have in the UK. If you are overtaking a truck you won't see the sign that says "200m" and unless you know the road can get severely caught out with truck pushing you into the other lane .
See it on Pohuehue viaduct all the time with people ending up facing oncoming traffic on a bridge.
-
-
@Crucial said in South Island driving route:
Merging should be a major part of obtaining a licence. Merging does not involve stopping and turning. Merging should not force anyone behind you to have to brake.
As should use of roundabouts. Fucking kills me when my mum, and about 90% of Palmy drivers, come to a complete stop at every roundabout, regardless of whether anything is coming!
-
@voodoo said in South Island driving route:
@Crucial said in South Island driving route:
Merging should be a major part of obtaining a licence. Merging does not involve stopping and turning. Merging should not force anyone behind you to have to brake.
As should use of roundabouts. Fucking kills me when my mum, and about 90% of Palmy drivers, come to a complete stop at every roundabout, regardless of whether anything is coming!
I don't want to go top hard on Palmy
but this was one of the first things I noticed when I moved there - no one knew what to do on a roundabout. There's always people in every city who don't know how to use them but Palmy seemed extra bad. But then I clicked there were barely any compared with Hastings (back in 2006) where they seem to put one on every intersection.A couple of years later I was chatting with the Higgins dudes putting in a roundabout near my office (by the Post Office near the corner of the Square) and they said that Hastings has a curved cutter (or some technical term) and Palmy doesn't, so they don't get as many done as they need to do more manual work. I had noticed they were taking ages to put the roundabout in.
-
-
@Snowy said in South Island driving route:
@Bones said in South Island driving route:
@Snowy I thought there is? Is it only on the LH side?
Nope. Just side of the road sign. Pisses my Welsh wife off no end that we don’t have the roadmarking. She is actually correct for once.
Have you acknowledged her correctness on this point?
-
@Snowy said in South Island driving route:
@Bones said in South Island driving route:
@Snowy I thought there is? Is it only on the LH side?
Nope. Just side of the road sign. Pisses my Welsh wife off no end that we don’t have the roadmarking. She is actually correct for once.
I like how you have to make a distinction as to which wife you're talking about.
-
@Bones said in South Island driving route:
@Snowy said in South Island driving route:
@Bones said in South Island driving route:
@Snowy I thought there is? Is it only on the LH side?
Nope. Just side of the road sign. Pisses my Welsh wife off no end that we don’t have the roadmarking. She is actually correct for once.
I like how you have to make a distinction as to which wife you're talking about.
To be Mr Serious briefly - they have the arrows in the UK and she has been caught out in head on traffic due to lack of them here.
I struggle dealing with one wife, so you can keep your Middle Eastbourne polygamy ideas to yourself.
