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Post by GO30 on Jul 6, 2024 9:45:11 GMT 12
How much has it cost too run 1/10/100kms of cheese cuter wire along our highways? Constanly being repaired so whats that cost?Sure it maybe saving lives but if you cant stay in your lane or your side of the road,maybe their licence needs to be revoked. It surprises me that every time I do town to rural or back, there are 2 or 3 new battle scars just in the Doom Valley section of cheese cutter. We must have even more shittier drivers than I give most credit for now.
As much as Te Waka Ora Roads likes to say so I'd hate to hit those wires on a bike, bye bye leg as a minimum I'd expect. Road design is becoming less 2 wheel friendly when anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size knows the big cities where people move around the most do it via decent public transport or 2 wheels.
The average passage load on Auckland roads during rush hours is 1.1 people, so most cars are at 20% occupancy at best. A scooter would be 50%, an electric bike (8K for a road legal one which only needs a car license)would be 100%.
It will be interesting to see 1, if the Govt/Council congestion tax 2 wheels and 2, if they don't how many will jump over when the congestion charging comes in.
No problem with congestion tax though, even if I/most could get rid of a lot of it inside a week. That is assuming they are so fucking stupid, and sadly I think they are, they load taxes onto everything not just cars.
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 6, 2024 10:23:40 GMT 12
How much has it cost too run 1/10/100kms of cheese cuter wire along our highways? Constanly being repaired so whats that cost?Sure it maybe saving lives but if you cant stay in your lane or your side of the road,maybe their licence needs to be revoked. It surprises me that every time I do town to rural or back, there are 2 or 3 new battle scars just in the Doom Valley section of cheese cutter. We must have even more shittier drivers than I give most credit for now.
As much as Te Waka Ora Roads likes to say so I'd hate to hit those wires on a bike, bye bye leg as a minimum I'd expect. Road design is becoming less 2 wheel friendly when anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size knows the big cities where people move around the most do it via decent public transport or 2 wheels.
The average passage load on Auckland roads during rush hours is 1.1 people, so most cars are at 20% occupancy at best. A scooter would be 50%, an electric bike (8K for a road legal one which only needs a car license)would be 100%.
It will be interesting to see 1, if the Govt/Council congestion tax 2 wheels and 2, if they don't how many will jump over when the congestion charging comes in.
No problem with congestion tax though, even if I/most could get rid of a lot of it inside a week. That is assuming they are so fucking stupid, and sadly I think they are, they load taxes onto everything not just cars.
There is only one driver for the cheese cutters and that is cost, they are alot cheaper to install than concrete barriers - compare the Northern Gateway motorway section Orewa to Johnson Hill, vs the new Puhoi to Warkworth. NZTA does not give a damn about those of us on 2 wheels, they claim the wire rope is safe but that is just smoke screening.
When I was researching spares holdings for the Puhoi to Warkworth operator i talked with the contractor maintaining the Waikato Expressway wire ropes, he said they do a weekly run along the full length of the expressway replacing the smashed posts and whatever.
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Post by harrytom on Jul 6, 2024 12:27:55 GMT 12
They about to do KatiKati to Tauranga and residents will have travel past their rd by 10/12k to a roundabout and come back down.Friday they were protesting along that stretch. a lot of post are in place but no wire yet,somebody spent time flattening them.
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Post by fish on Jul 10, 2024 12:08:32 GMT 12
Why the RMA needs to go. Hearings started Oct 23 and only just wrapped up, the decision is 96 pages long. I hate to think how much the application cost. Several $10's of millions I would think. Plus the cost of 10 months of hearings and 'independent commissioners' time, aka consultants. We can't build a container port at Marsden Point, we must keep brining containers into downtown Auckland instead, because: However, they said the reclamation would have significant adverse effects on the cultural values of tāngata whenua, on recreation, and on public access to coast. However, the consents were refused due to the scale and extent of the proposed reclamation, because the effects of severing the physical relationship to the cultural landscape, the beach, the dunes and the takutai moana (marine and coastal area), would be "significant and irreversible". Good luck building a hydro power station GO30. Or infact building any that is productive at all. www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/521756/northport-container-terminal-expansion-rejected |
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Post by GO30 on Jul 10, 2024 12:49:31 GMT 12
I won't be making the mistake of telling anyone I am.
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Post by harrytom on Jul 10, 2024 13:00:14 GMT 12
Been closed for 2 yrs already,never going to recover so build a wharf? A temporary two-year fisheries closure at Marsden Bank and Mair Bank, in Northland, starts on Saturday, 29 June. The closure prohibits the take of all species of shellfish* Check out a map of the area below 👇 For more information about the closure, visit: bit.ly/3xFXRTW*Please note that taking pipi and scallops are already prohibited under section 11 of the Fisheries Act 1996  |
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 14, 2024 8:12:55 GMT 12
Good news for a change, the track to Cathedral Cove is going to be repaired, finally! (my bolding)
Tama Potaka announced:https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/25-million-boost-conservation
" New Zealanders will get to enjoy more of our country’s natural beauty including at Cathedral Cove – Mautohe thanks to a $25 million boost for conservation, Conservation Minister Tama Potaka announced today. …
Coromandel’s Cathedral Cove will receive $5m to plan, build, reopen and maintain an overland track as part of continued recovery work from Cyclone Gabrielle damage."
Great that the Minister has delivered on reopening Cathedral Cove. It shows the difference a good Minister can make with a recalcitrant agency.
If DOC had their way anyone non maori would be banned from all parks and other DOC held land and waters
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 24, 2024 9:49:16 GMT 12
Interesting to see if words are turned into action www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/transport-minister-announces-four-lane-highway-from-auckland-to-whangarei/DR75K223N5CDVPNJ3V7DMKCTOQ/opens The Government’s announcement that it will accelerate work on the new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei as part of its Roads of National Significance programme will be “a game-changer” for Northland.
Transport Minister Simeon Brown said on Tuesday that plans were under way to accelerate an alternative route over the notoriously fragile Brynderwyn Hills, which are closed increasingly frequently due to bad weather.
“For too long, the lack of resilient transport connections between Northland and the rest of the country has been a handbrake on the region’s economic development,” Brown said.
“The last Government’s decision to stop planning for a replacement to the Brynderwyns has left Northland more vulnerable and requires a significant amount of work to get this project back on track.” |
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Post by fish on Jul 24, 2024 13:10:56 GMT 12
Interesting to see if words are turned into action www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/transport-minister-announces-four-lane-highway-from-auckland-to-whangarei/DR75K223N5CDVPNJ3V7DMKCTOQ/opens The Government’s announcement that it will accelerate work on the new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei as part of its Roads of National Significance programme will be “a game-changer” for Northland.
Transport Minister Simeon Brown said on Tuesday that plans were under way to accelerate an alternative route over the notoriously fragile Brynderwyn Hills, which are closed increasingly frequently due to bad weather.
“For too long, the lack of resilient transport connections between Northland and the rest of the country has been a handbrake on the region’s economic development,” Brown said.
“The last Government’s decision to stop planning for a replacement to the Brynderwyns has left Northland more vulnerable and requires a significant amount of work to get this project back on track.”I thought that was a PR announcement you make after SH1 gets closed again, after being closed for 4 months. No actual detail. Nothing firm, nothing to hold the Minister to. Just a fluff piece to placate Tai Tokerau and give the impression Simeon is any better than the Minister of Filth. When they start announcing confirmed alignment, obtained resource consent, and, heaven forbid, award a contract (which I'll be gobsmacked if it's in this parliamentary term), then I will start taking them seriously. On a side note, they have divided it up into 3 stages. Surely they will do Te Hana to Port Marsden first? As in bypass the Brynderwynns asap. Sure it would be nice to have a dual carriageway both ways, but it is the constant closing of the route altogether than is driving 95% of the economic losses. Resilience first, fancy dual carriageways all the way second. |
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Post by GO30 on Jul 24, 2024 14:31:11 GMT 12
There is a LOT of the prep already done for the Warkworth to Wellsford section. Be a easy and quickish win for a polly to push that on and stretch it out to Te Hana. Resilience first, in NZ, by a NZ Govt, really? Have you ever considered a career change to say stand up Comedy  |
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Post by sloopjohnb on Jul 24, 2024 15:18:00 GMT 12
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Post by harrytom on Jul 24, 2024 17:35:47 GMT 12
meanwhile Mamamukas stay closed costing Thousands per day in time/fuel What was a tight 14hrs Manukau to Kaitia (return)is now a overnight trip or 16hrs if you dont get caught and Brenderwyns open,when closed its another 2 hrs  |
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Post by fish on Jul 24, 2024 20:30:20 GMT 12
meanwhile Mamamukas stay closed costing Thousands per day in time/fuel What was a tight 14hrs Manukau to Kaitia (return)is now a overnight trip or 16hrs if you dont get caught and Brenderwyns open,when closed its another 2 hrs But why would you want to go to Kaitaia? Re-supplying the McDonalds? (there is nothing else up there, accept the triboard factory, if it hasn't closed already) I did a project up there once. It was illuminating to say the least. Had a meeting with the Council in Kaikohe first thing one morning, so thought I'd book a hotel for the night before. The Mid Northern. Checked in, and the guy at reception is like, just drive your car through that hole in the fence over there, park it close to your room, so it doesn't get knicked... Half the things in the room were broken. There was a little kitchenette in the hall, the toaster, kettle and microwave were all chained to the wall... Rocked up to the Council meeting the next morning, and they (the Council staff) were like, why would you stay there?!? everyone stays in Kerikeri - it's far safer nicer. Stayed in Kaitaia a couple of times for the project as well. Drive 30 minutes east to Coopers Beach and Mangonui, like driving into a different world. Nice houses, road legal cars, the general feeling of safety. Awanui (where my project was) had shops with rotten weatherboard on the main street, you could put your hand in through the wall. Extremely impoverished. I hear its improved a lot now, either govt grants or something to do with the local hapu getting some grants and smartening the place up. The project I was on was 90% funded by the Ministry for Health, and I can honestly say that was entirely 100% justified. Jokes aside, it wont be possible to get any wealth, industry or economic prosperity up there without good, reliable roading. The Triboard mill is a major employer, and they have to truck all their product south (and truck all the raw material in to the mill as well. That and farming, if there is any money left in sheep and beef. Dairying must be a nightmare if you need a tanker once a day to get milk to the plant, and you add another 2 hrs to the round trip... |
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Post by harrytom on Jul 24, 2024 23:20:18 GMT 12
If trucks use the coast rd ,kaiwaka to Waipu,now carries a hefty fine, going out through Mangatoroto to Paparoa then taking the rd to Oakliegh is fine until you meet anther heavy vehicle.So that leaves going out through Dargiville to Whangarei.
Lately the Highway Albany to silverdale been closed so have to go via hwy 16 back way in to Wellsford.
Kaitai ,have a friend who tries to do the Pak nsav run but keeps runing in to rd closures. Our MCDs run is a overnighter regardless,AK to Kaitia back down to Kaikohe then KeriKeri.
Theres a new fixed carema in at Moerewa I believe,in suck place its working over time,just in the 50 zone,so unless you know its there ping.
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Post by harrytom on Jul 27, 2024 12:36:37 GMT 12
State hwy 1 near Kaikohe (Mamamukas) will finished in December2024
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