Laws of the road?

Been thinking about this recently, don't laugh!

ISTM that there really are many laws, probably all would need tweaking
to work, that ought to be applied as general 'Rules of the Road' rather
than as 'rules for a vehicle type' .. no matter how you use the road
system.

So, Drink driving .. possibly should also be applied to drunk
pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders etc .. all of whom can provide much
danger to others purely through unpredictability, if nothing else.
Perhaps 'Being drunk using the queens highway' might work ..

Behaving recklessly on the queens highway, this again could apply to
anything, kids jumping railings into the path of buses, cyclists
hopping onto pavements and jumping red-lights, car drivers weaving in
and out of lanes, under and overtaking, for instances ..

There's probably a few that could be used to try and bring a little
more order to roads, rather than the 'bikes can do this but cars
shouldn't' mentality that prevails currently (and vice-versa). They
might reduce the total number of rules and make them easier to
interpret .. they might not too! They could possibly confuse things
...discuss!



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Paul - xxx

On 24/08/2011 16:28, Paul - xxx wrote:

Been thinking about this recently, don't laugh!

ISTM that there really are many laws, probably all would need tweaking
to work, that ought to be applied as general 'Rules of the Road' rather
than as 'rules for a vehicle type' .. no matter how you use the road
system.

So, Drink driving .. possibly should also be applied to drunk
pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders etc ..

Surely to the horse as well? ;-)

all of whom can provide much
danger to others purely through unpredictability, if nothing else.
Perhaps 'Being drunk using the queens highway' might work ..

Oddly, you may think, it does already apply - somewhat - to pedestrians (via
"drunk and incapable"), though the required degree of drunkennness is
probably a lot more than could safely be allowed for a driver or a cyclist
(or even a horse or its rider).

On 24 Aug 2011 15:28:50 GMT
"Paul - xxx" wrote:

Been thinking about this recently, don't laugh!

ISTM that there really are many laws, probably all would need tweaking
to work, that ought to be applied as general 'Rules of the Road'
rather than as 'rules for a vehicle type' .. no matter how you use
the road system.

So, Drink driving .. possibly should also be applied to drunk
pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders etc .. all of whom can provide
much danger to others purely through unpredictability, if nothing
else. Perhaps 'Being drunk using the queens highway' might work ..

Behaving recklessly on the queens highway, this again could apply to
anything, kids jumping railings into the path of buses, cyclists
hopping onto pavements and jumping red-lights, car drivers weaving in
and out of lanes, under and overtaking, for instances ..

There's probably a few that could be used to try and bring a little
more order to roads, rather than the 'bikes can do this but cars
shouldn't' mentality that prevails currently (and vice-versa). They
might reduce the total number of rules and make them easier to
interpret .. they might not too! They could possibly confuse things
..discuss!

Without enforcement they'd be pointless, and there isn't even adequate
enforcement of existing traffic law.

On 24 Aug, 17:28, "Paul - xxx" wrote:
Been thinking about this recently, don't laugh! *

ISTM that there really are many laws, probably all would need tweaking
to work, that ought to be applied as general 'Rules of the Road' rather
than as 'rules for a vehicle type' .. no matter how you use the road
system.

So, Drink driving .. possibly should also be applied to drunk
pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders etc .. all of whom can provide much
danger to others purely through unpredictability, if nothing else.
Perhaps 'Being drunk using the queens highway' might work ..

Behaving recklessly on the queens highway, this again could apply to
anything, kids jumping railings into the path of buses, cyclists
hopping onto pavements and jumping red-lights, car drivers weaving in
and out of lanes, under and overtaking, for instances ..

There's probably a few that could be used to try and bring a little
more order to roads, rather than the 'bikes can do this but cars
shouldn't' mentality that prevails currently (and vice-versa). *They
might reduce the total number of rules and make them easier to
interpret .. they might not too! *They could possibly confuse things
..discuss!



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Paul - xxx

Why do you think we ended up with the current highly-specific
offences? I remember my father telling me how he had got off (in
court) for driving while absolutely rat-arsed by pleading a war-time
blast injury to his inner ear. (This was in days when it was
respectable to admit such things.) The injury was perfectly genuine,
but it wasn't the real reason why he was staggering all over the road.