I see parking tickets as a sort of parking fee. You can park on the street right outside the new Breeze, because they only issue tickets and never tow.
I used to not care about them because the fine was so low, but then my girlfriends dad started getting angry with me as he said the bike is in her name and it will affect her license.
As to whether it really does I don’t know, but he was angry enough to make me slow down (In speed camera areas )
Keep your eyes open for a red warning triangle sign with a picture of a camera in it and drive accordingly in that zone.
Also download the app speed camera In Google play , will warn you of the cameras
Or, IDK, obey the speed limits?
Speeding tickets are almost always via speed cameras which always have a sign posted well ahead of the actual camera. The camera boxes are hard to miss too. Then there are, of course, the actual speed limit signs. So if you are getting that many tickets you are not paying attention while driving.
Slow down and save some money and potentially a few lives.
So, all of the tickets are from mountain road not the city.
Some of these roads have ridiculous limits, like the road from Taipei to yilan is 40 at many places when it would make sense to have it at 80 or 100
Anyway, I kind of assumed many of the cameras were empty as is the case in Europe and I never saw any flash, hence I didn’t figure out they actually work
It wouldn’t make sense to have a small road in mountainous areas with a 80 to 100 speed limit
Your post reeks a bit of entitlement. It’s common in Taiwan amongst people with some money. All you are concerned about is yourself. You think it’s unfair that you are being targeted as a biker compared to when you drive a car. You abuse the public space and moan about it.
I do agree that few follow the speeding limit in some places but that doesn’t mean it’s right. If some cunt killed my family from speeding (and it almost happened a couple of times ) I would kill them stone dead there and then. That’s not right either but there you go.
Obviously the cops are targeting speeding bikers on certain roads and times. One person doing it is dangerous but when there’s hundreds a day doing it that a big problem. Seems the message is a little slow to get across.
The current system is perfect for people who just pay to break the law. Typical for legal system in Taiwan actually and you don’t even have to pay that much. You would be paying a lot more than that if you hit somebody.
Learned today that knowing where there are may not be enough! Drove out to the airport from Taipei and dutifully slowed down every time the GPS warned of a speed camera. On the 2 and almost there when, as I squeezed myself through a gaggle of lane blockers I spotted the police car parked up on the right…with the cop pointing his thing at me Car I had just gotten past was too close to safely drop the anchors, probably looking at 115 in a 100 zone, I’m sure it would have been cheaper to take a taxi there!
TLDR, knowing where the cameras are is not always enough! Risks are low though, first time I’ve ever seen a highway cop with a speed gun.
Driving in Taiwan nearly a decade, number of speeding tickets received: 0.
I just don’t drive more than ~5 over the speed limit, and that only to keep up with traffic. I have never had to “keep an eye out” for speeding cameras and can rather focus on driving safely.
Have you ever calculated your potential time savings vs. the risk involved? Cruising at 120 vs. 110 for an hour will save you a whopping 5 minutes. And that’s assuming you are going 120 the entire time, not possible in most cases. 130 and you’ve shaved off an incredible 10 minutes.
It’s exactly the same problem with people speeding up to get through a crosswalk without stopping for pedestrians, only to stop at the red light 50 meters ahead. You save no time and make the road a dangerous place. Driving 80 or 100 in a 40. Totally wreckless. I hope you get tickets every time until you wise up.
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