OK, so we went to Roundabouta (the city formerly known as Tauranga) in the weekend, to deliver the Vifferbabe's mother, and give the doggies some beachtime. We made the somewhat dubious decision to come back on Monday, but left early so as to not get stuck in traffic queues. All was going swimmingly until we neared Maramarua, where there was an illuminated sign warning of "Traffic Queues at Maramarua", or somesuch. Sure enough, traffic soon slowed to halt, and alternated between that and a sub-5km/hour crawl for the next few kms. We figured we'd just tough it out, unlike some impatient important arseholes who decided to leave SH2 at Maramarua Golf Course and take a side road, that rejoined SH2 further up. We figured doing the same would accomplish little (apart from lumping us into the Selfish Arseholes Brigade), as the queues most likely stretched all the way home.
However (BUT!) when we got past Maramarua, miraculously traffic was flowing at 100km/h.
The sole and only reason for the traffic slowing to a crawl for those few kilometres was that west of Maramarua, the traffic on SH2 had to slow to let in the selfish arsholes who
had bypassed the queue caused by people slowing to let in the selfish arseholes back onto SH2!!!
If either EVERYONE had been selfish aresholes, or NO-ONE had been selfish arseholes and just stayed on SH2, there would have been NO TRAFFIC JAMS!! Perhaps NOT putting up a sign might have helped too, or blocking off the side roads. I dunno. Human nature, eh?
So, overall for the trip from Roundabouta to D'Auckland, the trip computer on the car said our average rate of forward progress was less than 60 km/h, courtesy of those very few slow kilometres through Maramarua.
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