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Post by Fogg on Sept 28, 2023 18:19:19 GMT 12
No just a couple of Lion’s Mane jellies which I managed to avoid today. They can be a bit uncomfortable otherwise.
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Post by harrytom on Sept 28, 2023 22:12:54 GMT 12
no quick fix,going to be weeks now.
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Post by GO30 on Sept 29, 2023 8:58:12 GMT 12
Yeah it sounds like it's going from bad to worse.
I heard a report they are having to dig down 4 stories, just think how many road cones that is.
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Post by muzled on Sept 29, 2023 11:09:29 GMT 12
Yeah it sounds like it's going from bad to worse. I heard a report they are having to dig down 4 stories, just think how many road cones that is. We had a sewer pipe fixed right outside our place last week. That was the 2nd attempt, first attempt took a week and they then found another issue. Instead of turning the digger around and starting work on the 2nd issue, which was litterally an exact 180 deg digger rotation and wouldn't have involved walking the digger a single foot, they fucked off for 6 weeks to tick some boxes. When they came back there were 6 traffic managment people for the first day of renewed digging. That then lowered to 4 people for the next 10 days. So three guys working on the issue, 4 people to control the traffic. The kicker - We live two houses from the end of a culdesac. There are a couple of rightaways, so there are 9 houses past the road works incl ours. There were cones 6 houses up the street... Probably 20 vehicle movements a day inc couriers etc. Unfarkingbelievabe. I had to go out one morning, came back 30 mins later, the cone nazi that let me out wasn't keen on letting me back in so quized me what address I lived at. Told him I was in the place with the huge fucking hole outside it... The fix done outside ours was a good 15ft down, was a 4 inch pipe and took ten days, my mind is boggling at how long it'll take to go down four stories... rant over...  |
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Post by fish on Sept 29, 2023 11:33:04 GMT 12
Yeah it sounds like it's going from bad to worse. I heard a report they are having to dig down 4 stories, just think how many road cones that is. We had a sewer pipe fixed right outside our place last week. That was the 2nd attempt, first attempt took a week and they then found another issue. Instead of turning the digger around and starting work on the 2nd issue, which was litterally an exact 180 deg digger rotation and wouldn't have involved walking the digger a single foot, they fucked off for 6 weeks to tick some boxes. When they came back there were 6 traffic managment people for the first day of renewed digging. That then lowered to 4 people for the next 10 days. So three guys working on the issue, 4 people to control the traffic. The kicker - We live two houses from the end of a culdesac. There are a couple of rightaways, so there are 9 houses past the road works incl ours. There were cones 6 houses up the street... Probably 20 vehicle movements a day inc couriers etc. Unfarkingbelievabe. I had to go out one morning, came back 30 mins later, the cone nazi that let me out wasn't keen on letting me back in so quized me what address I lived at. Told him I was in the place with the huge fucking hole outside it... The fix done outside ours was a good 15ft down, was a 4 inch pipe and took ten days, my mind is boggling at how long it'll take to go down four stories... rant over... You have to feel sorry for the guys trying to get a job done. Having to fuck around with so much box ticking. I used to drop flares down manholes to find odour / air leaks and what-not. Now they aren't allowed to open a manhole lid without testing with a gas meter, and you aren't allowed to use a sledgehammer to loosen a jammed lid, incase it ignites explosive gases. Infact there are very few people that are even certified to open a manhole lid now. You have to apply for permission from Watercare to "access their network", which includes a safety plan, traffic management plan, network access request and probably a cultural statement as well. I could tell you a lot of stories about the twaddlebollocks that started coming in when we were doing the emergency response in Chch post quake, trying to stop streets and houses flooding with raw sewage. Major public health risk. Blimey, I was doing everything wrong apparently. BUT, I was clearing job tickets. If we weren't working under emergency powers I probably would have been put in prison for some of the stuff I did down there. Easily would have been prosecuted if it weren't for the state of emergency. I even opened manholes, by myself, in the middle of streets, without traffic management. Unbelievable. |
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Post by dp on Sept 29, 2023 12:31:19 GMT 12
A couple of weekends ago on Sunday afternoon a couple of cars must have had a small coming together on an intersection near our house. There was a small amount of safety glass on the road, probably from a headlight. I drove by it a couple of times and it was soon only visible on the centreline and sides of the road. You could have swept it up with a broom in 10 minutes. Sunday afternoon, winter, Whitianga, barely a person or car around.
Enter Higgins road sweeper truck at 3pm, flashing light. Parks up alongside the glass. He sits there for 3 hours. About 6pm and getting dark 3 utes turn up with more flashing lights, cones placed for 100m 3 ways, stop/go flashing lights activated and traffic (all 2 cars) held up for 5 minutes at a time so the sweeper truck passes back and forth a couple of times. 7pm after retrieving the cones they all piss off.
The sweeper truck must have been here already but I suspect the utes came from Thames or further.
I shudder to think how much that cost the taxpayer.
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Post by Fogg on Sept 29, 2023 14:07:20 GMT 12
There’s been another cone population explosion in Auckland recently. They grow faster than fan-worm.
Great North Rd covered in them so I can’t turn down usual side road to drop son at kindy.
“Ok I’ll take next right instead”. But no right turns allowed.
“Ok so I’ll take next left turn, circle back and find a new route”. But no left turns allowed.
In other words you can only keep going straight-on past all the “Business open as usual signs” (what an arse-covering tactic that is plus it’s wrong and should say “Businesses open as usual but inaccessible.”).
Anyway, a Land Rover has some uses even in suburbia… “Hold on boys, here we go!” as we turn right through the cones and send a few scattering all over the road.
Been doing the same thing all week.
It’s become the highlight of my day. 😊
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Post by dp on Sept 29, 2023 14:27:18 GMT 12
But no left turns allowed. In other words you can only keep going straight-on past all the “Business open as usual signs” (what an arse-covering tactic that is plus it’s wrong and should say “Businesses open as usual but inaccessible.”). Like when auckland council trumpeted how much they were supporting the affected rail link businesses by giving them free membership to the auckland chamber of commerce. Im sure that really helped the dairy/restaurant. You just wanted to smash them in the face |
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