TMR put this up on their Facebook asking who has to give way, but that’s too easy. A much more complicated question is: what does the law say around indicating?
I’ve seen people say only blue must indicate, others say both must indicate, and yet others say neither must indicate. Which is correct?
This explains so much. These days the manual says you must indicate pretty much for every turn (and lane change) short the road curving. Which I agree with, the amount of people changing lanes or turning without indicating and nearly causing an accident shits me. Same with people who indicate last second for 1/50th of a second. As the old man says “they’re called indicators not commentators” they meant to give an indication of what you’re about to do.
Tangentially before moving to Brisbane I lived in a small rural “city” full of roundabouts. You could speculate the age of a driver pretty accurately by whether they indicated coming off a roundabout or not.
I meant at lane merges but I agree your point that as we get older we don’t tend to indicate as often as we should. The rule I was taught about indicating was 3 ‘clicks’ of the indicator before moving across lanes. Most people turn the indicator on as they are changing lanes and it can be dangerous as fick on the old M80 in Melbourne.
Ohhh my bad.
These people wouldn’t happen to drive BMWs would they? Nah memes aside it’s not just the Beamer drivers sadly.
My top shit driver models are:
I have left the ranger off since I drive one of them for work 🙃
Ah, a Canberran.
Hahaha even I’ve heard this about Canberra. Nah northern NSW, I promise you haven’t heard of it.
Damn, small enough that you’re confident I won’t have heard of it, but large enough that it’s officially a city? That leaves me very intrigued. Does it show up at the 7z zoom level on Google Maps? (Which on my 1080p desktop monitor is the most I can be zoomed in while seeing all of NSW’ width.)
It’s kinda of the meme amongst locals. Armidale. Apparently it’s a city because it has a cathedral, so it totally counts guys! Lmao. Though I heard this as a teen, a quick google apparently says this was a thing in the uk way back in the day. No idea why it counts as a city.
Oh, I’ve been to Armidale! Just for one night many years ago as a stop off on a leisurely scenic drive back from Newcastle to Brisbane. Apparently the pollution is terrible in winter because it’s just a bowl.
My other Armidale fun fact is that, according to an Australian corvid expert on Reddit many years ago, the general rule of thumb is that Armidale is the dividing line between Australian crows and ravens. South of Armidale most large black birds you see will be ravens. North of it they’re crows.
But if we’re doing cities that have no business being cities: Charters Towers, an hour or so inland of Townsville in FNQ. Apparently it got big enough back during the gold rush to be determined a city.
Wow small world! When I first moved here I met someone who also went to UNE (the university in Armidale). Like they can’t be that low but still, what’re the odds? Why do I feel like I recall or have history with charters? Maybe a mate.
That is actually neat as hell and I’m definitely going to be citing that to mates in the future. However I will internally be thinking of it as “Armidale is the city of crow turf wars” as it’s pretty on brand lmao.
Oh yeah it can get pretty bad in winter, we definitely didn’t refer to it as a hole because of it. No sir. When we first moved there, when the temperature was very much earning its namesake of New England and as a result the smog was bad. Fuck it was amazing when we first got there though. Rained all the time, very occasionally snowed and always green. However unfortunately we brought the drought from central (ish) QLD down with us not long afterwards. Sorry Armidale, our bad.