Posts by Lisa Black
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
I stand corrected. I'd still be arguing the point in court though, for several reasons.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
Glenn - vehicles yes, but drivers no. Or at least arguably not.
Bike riders are called cyclists in other clauses of the Rule, which means they are something other than drivers.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Grant - the other cities tend not to be in New Zealand, although some like Nelson, Hastings, and New Plymouth are making good advances.
For some reason New Zealand has gone down its own path with regard to road safety in general and bike infrastructure in particular. You will notice that other countries are not rushing to copy our methods. Best practice is coming from overseas, particularly Europe as Lilith noted above.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
It's not crazy talk, Craig. And you'll notice that I agreed with the call for better infrastructure.
My point is that the driver chose to park somewhere he couldn't exit the car safely from the driver's side. If your partner can't get out any other side I'd expect him to choose his park accordingly. That one obviously wouldn't have been a good one for him.
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Sorry - are you saying he didn't need to operate safely with respect to bike riders?
I'd be pretty surprised if the judge is correct in that reading of the passing on the left rule. For one thing it only applies to drivers.
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I'll never disagree with the proposition that New Zealand needs better cycle infrastructure, but... Is it that unreasonable to consider getting out of the passenger side?
Is it actually so ludicrous to consider that people might, having parked in a place that's unsafe to exit, make a little extra effort?
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Hard News: How I love the ladies ..., in reply to Simon Grigg,
Thanks for that Blue Smoke link, Simon. It's reminded me of one of our family heirlooms. When my dad was a youngish teenager (sometime in 1950s Christchurch) one of his six million older sisters* 'went around' with a young chap who had a recording studio. Because Dad played the guitar, this chap, wanting to impress the sister, got Dad in & made a record. Everyone was impressed, not just the sister. Dad still has a copy, and it's lovely.
*Dad is from a Catholic-sized family. Nana despised all religions but reserved a special loathing for Catholics, so naturally she married one. I'm unclear as to exactly how many aunts I have. Really.
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I read Winston's comment on the Treaty situation as wondering why on earth the Treaty should be an issue after all this time, and I'm inclined to agree.
170 years of ballsing it up, I mean, really... It's not that hard to do the right thing, and our governments haven't on a quite spectacular scale. Not to mention the ongoing racism as exemplified in the licence plate auction comments on Trade Me. (Don't worry, I linked to the Dom Post story not the ugly Trade Me comments).
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Thanks for the heads up, Gordon. @cyclingwgtn is now following @NLNZ.
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I love Papers Past! Paragraph 4 is my favourite news article (go Foxton!).