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I too see many motorists without their headlights on early morning and evenings (retards). Many who only turn on their parking lights in low light environments also. You might as well put the driving lights on and be seen for sure!

what amazed me was driving out to merredin yesterday . left vic park at 6am . Raining all the way to merredin . And the amount of people without their headlights on just down right dangerous .

and then coming home around dusk and people and trucks esp with just park lights on . farken retarded .

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king of the point said..

Ps Would be an interesting experiment to turn all the fken traffic lights off for a month something tells me speed would be reduced and we would all become more tolerant and better drivers

This experiment was done years ago ['95ish?] when the entire traffic light system crashed during a power blackout that hit Perth.

At the time, I was living in Wembley Downs and working in Welshpool.

Normally, getting to and from work was a pig of a trip, with a stop-start peak hour crawl all the way.

During the blackout, it was 20 minutes quicker - everyone was courteous, and gave way at intersections, traffic flowed smoothly.

There was no road rage - and the sky didn't fall, everybody on the road knew to expect trouble and drove appropriately.

Mr Plod was astounded that there was not a single traffic accident or incident in Perth.


stephen

It might be worth trying on a day where everyone goes to work and school then. On that particular day bucketloads of people just stayed home thinking it was the end of the world

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FormulaNova said...

Buster fin said..
Back on topic, if I may be so bold, I've seen two lit signs indicating that police want us to.... dunno the rest, the time taken to 'flip the page' was so long that I passed without it telling me. My attention on said sign the whole time. Glad nothing jumped out at me.

I think they get excited with their new signs and want to show they are a great idea, so they start displaying garbage on them. They installed signs on the freeway near me a while ago and they had pointless comments on them, which served just to make people start ignoring them.

I don't think they realise that if they are used for unimportant information, people start ignoring them.

As far as I know most of these 'initiatives' and signs are actually funded by the various road safety/road trauma councils around Australia, not the Police.

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Chris6791 said..

FormulaNova said...

Buster fin said..
Back on topic, if I may be so bold, I've seen two lit signs indicating that police want us to.... dunno the rest, the time taken to 'flip the page' was so long that I passed without it telling me. My attention on said sign the whole time. Glad nothing jumped out at me.

I think they get excited with their new signs and want to show they are a great idea, so they start displaying garbage on them. They installed signs on the freeway near me a while ago and they had pointless comments on them, which served just to make people start ignoring them.

I don't think they realise that if they are used for unimportant information, people start ignoring them.

As far as I know most of these 'initiatives' and signs are actually funded by the various road safety/road trauma councils around Australia, not the Police.

Ahh, that's interesting. I had assumed that they were funded by the state government for road safety.

I think they definitely help, but if they start showing useless information, people will not take any notice of them when there is a genuine need.
The ones on the freeway here sometimes show something like 'for more information see rms.nsw.gov.au'. What use is that information? Is someone going to lookup the website as they are driving?

While I am whinging, the same signs were showing 'roadworks on M1' a few months ago. The trouble is, the 'M1' is some stupid aggregation of roads, so the M1 covers a couple of sections of freeway, both south and north of Sydney. How is anyone going to know which part of the M1 they are referring to?