Thirty five years ago, amongst much angst from the motoring public, a previous authority changed the ‘give way' rule.
Their reason was to bring NZ drivers into line with international driving standards.
The LTSA is now changing the ‘give way' rule back to what it was 35 years ago, the reason they give is to ‘standardise international driving'. Now somebody has been telling the public porkies.
My question is how many accidents did the change create 35 years ago, and how many more accidents will happen now that we return to the 1977 rules and what is the amount of our tax paid dollars used to promote these two changes?
Drivers as old as myself will easily slip back 35 years and remember that at ‘any uncontrolled intersection if you will hit another car in the driver's door then give way to that car'.

Maureen J Anderson, Pyes Pa.