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Have you read the entire article? I'm absolutely not a National fan but they're not saying that they will reverse all changes, only there were it's safe to do so. Essentially what the current plan is, perhaps at less places.
Also, they want to focus on other things than speed, eg on alcohol testing.
I'm from The Netherlands where we have an absurd focus on speed, and speed testing. It has got nothing to do with safety where they are testing, it's just another tax.
I've got my license 25 years or so and have only been tested for alcohol once. Never in my ten years in New Zealand. That's crazy. One in five fatal crashes is caused by alcohol.
Might be where you're living or when you're driving? I've had a few breath tests heading home from work around the times you'd expect people might be heading home for tea after an after work drink.
I've driven at times when people are expected to drink, at night, at Friday afternoon, etc. Never tested once. And I've probably been speed tested thousands of times.
I've been tested twice in the 30 years I've been driving. Both of them before I was 20.
I assume there's confirmation bias in that I'm not driving at the same times in the same places as I was 20 or so, but I've never even seen a breath stop since.
Plenty of WoF stops though, and one child seat compliance stop.
Interesting! I've never seen a WoF stop or child seat compliance stop.
I've had both (in the far north).
Sorry, registration not WoF.
Yeah, the child seat one was a real surprise.
Do you do much driving after dark? When I look back, I think every alcohol checkpoint I've been through has been after dark. And I'm pretty sure they check WoF (not rego) at the same time since it's right there on the driver's side, but I haven't seen a checkpoint specifically for WoF (or rego). I have heard of people getting tickets for no rego after having sweeps of car parks done, but I don't think this is police-led.
Hardly drive at all actually, compared to when I was younger. Generally night time driving is "home from the restaurant".
My experience is very anecdotal and definitely had selection bias for my small amount of travel.
We moved where the work was so family all live a long way away, so we spend many evenings driving to visit. They aren't exactly common but I think we probably go through one a year on average.
Thats me and my spouse's excuse for not visiting my in-laws. They are genuinely unpleasant to be around for any length of time: so we don't.
Haha I'd use that excuse too if I needed to. Luckily both families get along and are generally pretty enjoyable to visit.