Drivers will be banned from using cellphones in their vehicles from November under new rules that will also require motorcyclists to use their headlights during the day.
Transport Minister Steven Joyce announced yesterday that also from November, drivers talking or texting while at the wheel would face fines of $80 and would receive 20 demerit points.
Motorcyclists [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 14, 2009
Rule changes target mobile phone users, bikers.
August 3, 2009
Old dogs and new tricks.
By stephen clover on Thursday, 30 Jul 2009
http://wellingtonista.com/old-dogs-and-new-tricks
Wellingtonista.com
Wellington’s “ol’ faithful” taxi-cab company Combined (or Wellington Combined Taxis to give them their full title) have gone through a bit of a transformation in the last 12 months or so.
With the arrival on the scene of new “green” player Green Cabs (about whom we have written — and been [...]
August 3, 2009
Air hostesses in cab attack.
An Auckland taxi driver has been charged after allegedly attacking two air hostesses over a fare dispute in the central city.
But the cabbie – who until now has slipped under transport officials’ notice and continues to work – says he was acting in self defence, a claim that was greeted by scepticism by a district [...]
