STACY SQUIRES/STUFF
Police can run red lights when heading to emergencies but why do so many Christchurch drivers think they can do the same? (Video first published in January 2019)
Three red light cameras will be switched on later this year to catch motorists illegally running through intersections in Christchurch. A red light camera was installed at the intersection of Bealey Ave and Madras St in 2018, but it had only been used to collect data and no infringements had been issued from it. By contrast, Auckland had 20 cameras by February last year, with more to be added. Christchurch once had cameras at 10 intersections, which were used in the late 1980s and 1990s.
It is horrific. Just as I bow out at the second round of sit-ups lest I see my breakfast for the second time in an hour, Joe reads out a message he’s received from someone in their 70s who is exercising at home and I am instantly ashamed.
I upload a screen shot of Joe to Showbie, with one word: “brutal”.
9.30am: Break.
Maths work for Stacia Briggs home-schooling day
- Credit: Stacia Briggs
9.50am: Maths. Always my Achille’s Heel at school, it took me two attempts to pass my maths GCSE and I remember as a child protesting that I would never, ever use algebra in my adult life. As a 40-something, I can confirm that this is true, but no one likes a know-it-all and anyway, today is about learning the time and looking at the 24-hour clock. Frankly, this is a stroke of luck, being one of the few areas of mathematics I have mastered. I upload my work to Showbie.