As a whole, I have been describing drivers as careless or carefree. Road rules are not often followed and drivers seem to drive to their own pace, yet not aggressive and reckless in the same way I see Newcastle drivers.
Drivers rarely follow the speed limit.
There is a wide range that people drive at.
Drivers are often travelling above the speed limit, often as much as 20km/h above even in 50km zones but especially at 80km and faster zones. It's also fairly common to see drivers travelling 5-10km below the speed limit.
Interection traffic lights seem to be followed fairly regularly. Other road rules are occasionally followed, as far as I can tell/remember, e.g., road works.
Indicating for lane changes are infrequent, yet still done at a higher frequency than Newcastle.
Some roads and intersections have poor designs, see the Brown Road, Sandspit Road, Hill Street, and Twin Coast Discovery Highway intersection at Warkworth 0910.
Quite a few roads entering highways have a traffic light system that stops traffic entering and is supposed to let one or two cars merge onto the highway at a time. From what I understand, they are supposed to help with busy traffic, however, they cause entering traffic to become severely backlogged and instead get ignored. I don't understand when or why they get turned on, and have seen them turned on with light-moderate traffic and off with moderate-heavy traffic (or off on the weekend).
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