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Post by GO30 on Jan 13, 2024 10:37:08 GMT 12
Govt must of found a wad of cash The amount of road works this week amazing doing resurfacing of roads done before Xmas digging up perfectly good rds.Road marking in our street where 10 cars may travel a day.painting the speed humps and on it goes seems like a waste of $$ Chatting with a cuzzy who is in all of that she reckons there is an air of 'Shit, better be seen getting some shit done' inside Te Ora Waka Transport. Another mates missus who working in another Govt Dept reckons similar. Both say the new Govt is setting targets and expectations and have the cheek to say they will be monitoring their performance against the targets. Apparently the change has caused the odd person to lose their shit.
Basically some of the public used to be servants in Govt Depts are now joining the rest of us out here in the real world with targets and KPIs to meet and in doing so means shit does get done.
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Post by harrytom on Jan 13, 2024 15:54:02 GMT 12
Went down hwy 27 last night,around 1.30am and the seal they laid on Friday.What a mess.10kph was to fast,tyres caked in chip n seal and spent a 2hrs this afternoon with the kero removing from rims.
Why lay on the hottest days knowing its never going set?
As you say people watching people to get shit done.If they say why it cant be done those at the top say just do it.
Guess they being as seen as active?
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Post by dutyfree on Jan 14, 2024 16:16:23 GMT 12
Took the Ducati for a ride today, big loop out past Muriwai, then up the west side to Warkworth, then back down the new motorway. Roads generally in good condition, bloody hot had to stop and buy some water!
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Post by harrytom on Feb 11, 2024 17:19:58 GMT 12
Thomas was monitoring traffic on the express way last Friday. A Waka transport project he and his boss are working on. A Waka car pulled up and asked what they were up too,they explained and the waka man said"Do us a favour and park up in pull off area by the amcor barrier,safer for you". Apaarently the wire safety line is the most dangerous place you can park,its design is to deflect vehicles that hit it back on to the road,stretches 6 m before it catapults you.
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Post by sloopjohnb on Feb 12, 2024 8:43:08 GMT 12
Queen Street working well 1929.  |
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Post by sloopjohnb on Feb 12, 2024 14:05:54 GMT 12
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Post by fish on Feb 12, 2024 16:30:59 GMT 12
I think Auckland Transport are being hypercritical pouring shit on Kiwirail for wrecking commuter confidence in public transport, when AT are cancelling ferry services and entire ferry routes willy nilly. Anyway, Tauranga is looking at this and laughing. Tauranga says we can match your commuter disruption and raise you a request for the whole city to work from home due to a closed state highway, while the other main route is still a roadworks nightmare. I was listening to RNZ in the car. The presenter asked some business guy from Tauranga how all the trucks with goods leaving the port get on with working from home?!? Thinks she probably should have been putting that question to NZTA, but at least it was asked. |
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Post by eri on Feb 12, 2024 18:25:29 GMT 12
i live about ground zero for electric scooters
and have been watching a nasty, deep, short little pothole form in a nearby road
just over the brow on a hill
outside a local school
kind of thing that would kill an electric scooter rider in the dark
maybe i should do an arnold, buy a bag of ready-mix and fill it in before it kills
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Post by harrytom on Feb 29, 2024 14:21:17 GMT 12
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Post by ComfortZone on Mar 1, 2024 8:26:21 GMT 12
of course this is the first time there has ever been a 29th February! Once again a reminder that the concept of a cashless society is a very bad idea |
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Post by eri on Mar 1, 2024 14:46:15 GMT 12
remember that scooter rider that died recently? the 53-year-old mechanic approached the intersection with Aroha Ave, at a speed between 36 and 41 kilometres per hour, he fell from the scooter and collided with a raised kerb and the base of a concrete power pole.
It’s not clear why he fell, but Coroner Erin Woolley said in her findings that contributing factors might have been the unstable road surface, the condition of the modified scooter and the presence of methamphetamine in Thanababu’s system, which may have caused him to drive dangerously.
home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=393864&tstsince making smooth roads, stamping out meth and making sure people's scooters are safe is hard coroner wants mandatory helmets for scooter riders |
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Post by harrytom on Mar 1, 2024 14:59:26 GMT 12
Kaimais have ben closed all wek at night and no sign of any work having been carried out.Meanwhile they are going hammer and tongs chip sealing hwy 27,most is redoing what they did 4 weeks ago.
Is it time to dump Downer road inspection unit along with Higgins and Fulton Hogan?? Last night MW closed at Drury and FH had a truck parked across the bridge by the off ramp to you had to exit,fair enough but why have a 2nd FH truck at the end of the bridge doing the same when no traffic can cross as theyre forced to exit.
I seriously think its time the Govt looked at the contractors and dump them.Go back to the Ministry of works where they did work once and it holds up,might of been slow but done properly. Dump the green tar seal and get real bitumen.
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Post by fish on Mar 1, 2024 17:02:33 GMT 12
remember that scooter rider that died recently? the 53-year-old mechanic approached the intersection with Aroha Ave, at a speed between 36 and 41 kilometres per hour, he fell from the scooter and collided with a raised kerb and the base of a concrete power pole.
It’s not clear why he fell, but Coroner Erin Woolley said in her findings that contributing factors might have been the unstable road surface, the condition of the modified scooter and the presence of methamphetamine in Thanababu’s system, which may have caused him to drive dangerously.
home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=393864&tstsince making smooth roads, stamping out meth and making sure people's scooters are safe is hard coroner wants mandatory helmets for scooter riders Why do we spend taxpayer money investigating how idiots died? Shouldn't we celebrate we removed a junkie from both the community and gene pool? On drugs, riding a modified scooter, no helmet, died. Why do we care? It is just natural selection. Darwin theory. Take personal responsibility to the next level and let people do what they want - provided it doesn't harm anyone else - if they die, don't waste time on investigations, just move on. |
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Post by harrytom on Mar 6, 2024 3:02:11 GMT 12
So the 20 cent fuel tax suppose to go in June 2024 and next minute Govt announces 25 cent increase in fuel tax from 2027,increase in regos $50 saying its needed to fix potholes?
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Post by Cantab on Mar 6, 2024 5:36:28 GMT 12
Last Government raised fuel tax by a lot more than that and didn't fix anything.
Few more big highways back on the plan, suits me.
Last week the moan was there is no plan, just 100 days of cuts. Now the next phase plan has been released, more moaning?
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