Exasperated Auckland commuters have been caught blatantly flouting the road laws, overtaking on a huge gridlocked road by driving on the wrong side of the street against oncoming traffic.
Footage of six cars overtaking the traffic jam on the double yellow lined Triangle Rd, Massey, in Auckland's west, was on Monday posted to the Facebook group "Shocking Auckland Drivers".
Several of the cars travel hundreds of metres on the wrong side of the street, swerving into the opposite parking lane to avoid oncoming traffic.
One white car is particularly casual about the maneuver, traveling fast to get over a bridge in the middle of the section of Triangle Rd and nearly missing an oncoming black car.
Responses to the video on Facebook have been varied, with many calling for more police surveillance and censuring the irresponsible driving, but others are sympathetic.
"Regular occurrence on triangle road Massey. Cops don't even want to know," the person who posted the video captioned with it.
"The bit that gets me, is they race up the top, then turn left, onto the motorway, at the lights, cheating the queue and pushing in and nearly causing accidents...." another wrote.
"Oh my god!!! Outrageous... what’s the point of having any road rules when they are regularly flouted?" one commenter said.
Many of the comments however pointed out how the road should be double lane.
"They should have made a wider bridge and 2 lanes here when they did the bike lane a few years ago... future development fail!," one person commented to the approval of several other Facebook users.
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