Road rules without thought

Recently the state government announced new rules regarding road-workers, and the lengths that drivers must go to to ensure that the men & women with shovels can stay safe when at work - or when leaning on said shovels - or when watching a hole in the road because Nev who does the digging is off sick today.

These new rules state that if a driver is approaching a road-side service vehicle that has flashing lights operating, then the driver must change out of the adjacent lane (that closest to the vehicle), and pass at less than 40 kilometres per hour.

At first blush, it seems reasonable, but what happens when there are TWO service vehicles, one on each side of the carriage-way, both with flashing lights? Since I cannot change out of BOTH the left and right lanes, does that mean that I cannot proceed?

What happens on a road with only a single lane in each direction? Am I to cross the centre-line into on-coming traffic to pass?

"Oh, don't be silly. The police will be sensible when those situations arise," you say.

"BULLSHIT!" I respond. Police will do ANYTHING they feel is necessary to get an arrest or issue an infringement notice, and get a conviction. That's the measure applied to their worth.

I don't want it left to individual police officers to decide if I have committed an offence or not. I want the law to explicitly state the actions associated with an offence, with no room for discretion. Allowing discretion in the door means that corruption is wiping its feet on the mat.

This is a bad law. There has been no spate of road worker deaths associated with drivers doing the wrong thing. I drove through two road work areas today, and saw that there were more workers doing traffic management than actually working.
I drove along a third stretch of road that was MARKED with a myriad of signs proclaiming that road works were in progress, and mandating a speed limit of 40 kph (in a normally 100 kph zone), WITH NOT A SINGLE ROAD WORKER IN SIGHT.

Worker safety is a good thing, but to focus more on being safe rather than doing the damn job? Maybe we need a New Zealand style reformation of negligence and compensation law.