Saturday, July 01, 2006

They have laws against this?

Transport services & fines
  • Motorists failing to give priority to pedestrians upon turning will face higher fines from NT$1,200 to NT$3,600.
  • Motorists making right turns at red lights failing to give priority to pedestrians upon turning will face reduced fines from NT$600 to NT$2,800 from the old range of NT$1,800 to NT$534,00.
  • Motorcyclists who do not make two-phase left turns will be fined NT$900 to NT$1,800.
I have never seen them enforced. The Kaohsiung transport police will stop motorcyclists who don't wear helmets, but the cops just look at any other traffic violations with blank faces. I'm not sure they even know what the laws are. So it doesn't make any difference that there are fines or that they reduced (!) them.

posted by pkd at 3:54 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the police operate on a system of "respond only to requests for action". So if you have an accident and call them, they show up and do their duty. Otherwise, anything goes...unless they are having a clampdown on one violation...in which case they redouble their lack of attention to all other violations.

6:28 PM  

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