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POLARBEAR666 · #11 04-08-2007, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by WagonRS

Agreed, but when your pulling 40+ ton behind you in a B double, and your in the burbs, somtimes you have no choice. Traffic light timing can change from suburb to suburb depending on the type of traffic (eg mostly cars) thats where I get caught out. Sometimes you just cant pull up in time..

40+ ton must be a bug eye

MKVIGTI · #12 04-08-2007, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by DGSWRX

If anyone has been to adelaide or comes from there they have on big intersections redlight cameras and if you floor it to get past the lights its also a speeding camera and you get caught either ways makes you drive very normal when you there lol.

Managed to avoid it last time I was over there but one of these is on West tce going onto Anzac Hwy. The old man reckons since they put it in he has started stopping instead of hoofing it. Said he has had more than a dozen people almost rear end him. Was never a problem before!!!

Not bad for a fifty going to a 60 zone. You would think most people would be able to stop but said he has seen a hugh increase in the rear enders.

Hurtenstein · #13 04-08-2007, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by WagonRS

Agreed, but when your pulling 40+ ton behind you in a B double, and your in the burbs, somtimes you have no choice. Traffic light timing can change from suburb to suburb depending on the type of traffic (eg mostly cars) thats where I get caught out. Sometimes you just cant pull up in time..

Yeah, Bypass and Stirling crescent is notorious for semis running reds.

Elrico · #14 04-08-2007, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by POLARBEAR666

40+ ton must be a bug eye

Ba DOOM SHHH Classic pride!

TopGear · #15 04-08-2007, 06:04 PM

yeah well 40 tonne hitting a car is gonna do a fair amount of damage

dtrally · #16 04-08-2007, 06:28 PM

If you stop on an amber and someone runs up the back of you it is possible to be partially balmed. Amber means "stop if it is safe to do so". If you cut in front of someone (usually a 40 tonne B double) then stop for an early amber you deserve to get slammed & blamed. I saw a woman in a Jeep do it yesterday on a downhill.

gumby · #17 05-08-2007, 10:43 AM

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Thou who has not sinned shall cast the first stone. I know ive run em specially on cruises on the odd occasion. Just depends what you call "running a red". Half a second in an intersection 5 seconds into it etc.

Im pretty sure Downer Engineering who have the contract for traffic lighting throughout Perth (from what i know) actually set delays on the timers to allow for EVERYONE to be out of the intersection before entering it.

Pfft, never said Ive never done it, Im just saying, theres no excuse for doing it..... so if theres redlight cameras, theres no point bitching about it.

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Originally Posted by WagonRS

Agreed, but when your pulling 40+ ton behind you in a B double, and your in the burbs, somtimes you have no choice. Traffic light timing can change from suburb to suburb depending on the type of traffic (eg mostly cars) thats where I get caught out. Sometimes you just cant pull up in time..

Yeah, well I was thinking of a car, not a truck,, but I am aware theres an occasion where you have to, my brother got flashed by a redlight camera, because he went through because the truck behind him was going to be able to stop in time, despite him arguing that, and them having photographic evidence of a truck with smoke pooring off the tyres like a few seconds later, he still had to wear the fine.

and, personally, I received one for going through a redlight to move out the way for an ambulance to get through, which did get waivered when I queried it.

WagonRS · #18 05-08-2007, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by gumby2006

Personally, I received one for going through a red light to move out the way for an ambulance to get through, which did get wavered when I queried it.

I always wondered about that. Last night i was in the middle lane on my own at a leach hwy intersection, I saw an ambulance coming, but it wasn't till the last second waiting for that light to turn green that i jumped the gun and nailed it out of his road..

werticusness · #19 05-08-2007, 10:37 PM

if its after 2am and dead with no traffic I consider lights optional.

gumby · #20 05-08-2007, 11:10 PM

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