Dropping the drink-drive limit has long seemed a no-brainer to me. The Aussie limit has been in place for donkey's years and it became obvious to me while I was living there how effective a sensible limit could be with the right type of promotion.
Queenslanders like a drink just as much as Kiwis do. But the fact that driving home was not an option had been drilled into those who liked to tip a couple back at my local pub and had changed the habit of a lifetime for many.
There was still the odd doofus who tried to sneak out, keys in pocket and drive home, but the punters had almost become a self-policing group and would step in and call the trier a few choice names.
The roads around my neighbourhood were kept a little bit safer as a result.
After all, if a couple of people get caught driving drunk, it means checkpoints and more grief for locals. Keep the idiots away, there's more peace.
