Bay Harbour: December 06, 2017

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Wednesday December 6 2017
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We said:
Thieves smashed a
padlock and stole close
to 300 litres of diesel
from the Diamond
Harbour Fire Brigade
You said:
Glenda McMillan – I
hope whoever stole this fuel
never needs the generosity of
these volunteers in their life
time.
What a smack in the face
for our community heroes
to come across these greedy
scumbags.
Trevor Taylor – Three
hundred litres is a massive
amount of diesel to take
(about five tank fulls).
Would have to be very
organised and have a small
tanker, 15 jerry cans and a
high flow pump. Syphoning
would take hours.
Rob White – Let’s hope
the first fire they can’t get to is
the thieves themselves.
Marianne McKinney
Zonneveld – What is society
coming to? Seems we have
bred a lot of selfish scumbags
with a sense of entitlement.
They will get their just reward
one day. Karma.
We said:
SLOW: The city council is consulting on proposed lower
speed limits for Dyers Pass Rd.
The speed limits on
Dyers Pass Rd could be
lowered to 60km/h
You said:
Jeff
Morrison –
The proposed
change of
speed limit on
Dyers Pass Rd
will not solve
the problem.
Inappropriate
overtaking, speeding,
crossing the centre line and
not driving to the conditions
will continue, regardless of
the speed limit in place. How
many of the 180 accidents
that have been recorded
over the past decade have
involved drivers under-30
(the suspected boy racers)?
A change in speed limit will
only penalise people
who choose to live in
the harbour basin and
extend their current
commute. Those who
currently break the law
will continue to break
the law.
Wilfried J
Rademaker – An
appropriate speed limit for
New Zealand’s open roads
is long overdue. We just
need to realise that setting a
speed limit and enforcing it
is only one side of the coin
– the other is attempting
to change driving culture.
Too many drivers view the
present 100km/h limit for
open New Zealand roads
as a “target” rather than
the maximum speed, to be
modified according to road
conditions. Furthermore,
there is the prevalent culture
of having to be at the head
of the queue, regardless of
the speed the column is
moving. Compare that to
Norway, where the open road
speed limit is 80km/h. In
my experience, traffic flows
far better there, and driving
a vehicle is so much easier.
And in Norway they get
away with two thirds of the
New Zealand death rate per
kilometres driven. Yes, unlike
us, they do have the money
to tunnel through many an
obstacle in the way – but that
does not explain the overall
results. Even on a German
autobahn with no speed
limits, I very rarely experience
the daringly aggressive
overtaking manoeuvres New
Zealand drivers seem to feel
they excel in. However, I daily
experience such behaviour
on my run into town. If you
check the science of all this,
you will find that a slower
vehicle speed can actually
increase throughput of a given
road, rather than reducing it.
My recommendation is, let’s
go for it.
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