Officers were in Stuart St yesterday afternoon to check drivers were not running red lights or speeding and were wearing seatbelts.
Sergeant Des Karl said motorists’ compliance at intersections was good, but several people were caught speeding.
"We got a number, unfortunately, which were clocking upwards of the high 60s," he said.
The operations would continue into the forseeable future, he said.
"We will constantly pop up in different places.
"We want people to stop either being killed, hurting themselves, or hurting others."
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Good to see that we will finally see continued active traffic policing in the city. The 80km zone on the southern motorway would be another contender. Probably the three greatest problems would be, cell phone use, squeezing the lights at speed, and motorists 'charging' at drivers entering a roadway from an intersection. What I mean by 'charging', is when a driver speeds up to rapidly close the distance on another driver who was safely exiting an intersection (they initially had more than ample time). The 'charging' driver thereby deliberatly creates a 'near miss' incident and often blasts the horn to assert their displeasure and dominance. The opposite occurs too, where there is clearly not enough time/distance, and the driver pulls out rapidly from a side road into the traffic stream. Same situation with roundabouts. Drivers 'charge' up to it to prevent entry by another driver who was there first. The result is that some drivers are very hesitant to enter the roundabout, which holds up traffic. Dunedin is by far the worst city for these common dangerous actions.
There should be permanent speed cameras on the Highgate bridge, facing both ways. The turn from Highgate to Stuart Street into the city is hazardous enough (due to the absence of warning signs) without vehicles speeding up from Kaikorai Valley and over the crest.
Be sure to clock the many BUSES that also fly through red lights while you're at it. Also while we're shaping up, a round about on Kaikorai Valley Road -Ensor Street would great thanks it's only a matter of time before someone gets T-Boned. Cheers
What about the bus behaving badly?, nearly had a head on with a bus the other night when it was barreling down the street on my side of the street, he swerved back on his side pretty quickly and today a bus was approaching me half way over the white line. It seems they can do no wrong in the police eyes.