Driving quality is worsening
I'll preface this and say I've only been in this lovely country for three years so maybe all my observations can be put down as random. But I drive for work and believe the quality of driving is deteriorating.
Some examples from the last couple of days:
A girl with her phone up to the wheel pulling out of city works depot (across my path), turns right up Wellesley, gets to the lights and in that time never once put the phone down.
Harbour bridge/khyber pass/constellation drive exit; when i indicate to merge into abundant space, they intentionally (it would seem) accelerate to prevent me from merging then beep.
During a storm a few weeks back, someone turned onto Waima st from new north road into oncoming traffic (me) and forced me off into the bus lane, with a cop waiting at the lights in the junction they just came from and no action.
And the worst I've seen this week was someone pulling out of sky city onto hobson st and turning RIGHT...as in heading against traffic, with no lights on (which seems to be very common in this country at night time).
I feel like road safety and police attention is focused on speed/alcohol and not aggressive or ignorant driving i.e. mobile phone use/no lights at night or in fog.
Maybe its all random and I just spot more as I'm on the road a lot, but I'd really like to see something change to make roads safer here. Especially after seeing the recent dangerous driving news from Ireland.