Northern Motorway in chaos.

[madbikeboy]

I have this mental image of 10,000 cagers sitting on the motorway simmering away as they go nowhere very slowly.:angry2::eek5::argh::pinch::yawn::crybaby:

I am so very happy to be on the bike today.:scooter:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10535521

[PirateJafa]

Hahaha nub'd!

Reminds me of when Toll Rail put at forty foot high-cube container of ours onto one of their trains heading north. Unfortunately some genius there didn't realise that although the tunnel on the way could take the normal 8'6" containers, the 9'6" container wouldn't fit.

Cue to forty feet of scrap corten steel.

[MadDuck]

Just to top it off there has now been a crash just South of Warkworth with diversions down SH16.....just as well its school holidays and not so much traffic out there.

[madbikeboy]

I've seen 40 foot refers (refridgerator containers) run out of diesel because people forgot where they put them. If they have export quality meat in them, they get smelly really fast, making them easier to find...

LOL!

Warkworth and the Northern. All we need now is a power cut, and it's back to 1920 in Auckland again...

[Magua]

Massive queues, took me half an hour to go around the block. It's clearing now though.

I just took a walk down there with my binoculars, looks pretty fucked. _b

[Morcs]

What has an eyewitness saying ' I'm going to have a few beers tonight," got to do with anything in that story?

lol

[Slyer]

lol I was wondering that too

[xwhatsit]

Hehehe, what a winner!

I presume it's going to be like this the whole day then? They'll probably want to go up and have a squiz at the bridge I suppose, make sure it won't drop any more bits. I don't care if the Northern is a parking lot, but having to route through Onewa Rd and back out again is a pisser.

[Swoop]

The Harold piccie makes the overbridge look pretty fu*ked!
Someone is in for a smacked botty...:laugh:

[ital916]

What has an eyewitness saying ' I'm going to have a few beers tonight," got to do with anything in that story?

lol

haha yeah, who cares about details, I'm just glad to know he's gonna get pissed tonight. glad no one was hurt when it happened.

[slimjim]

O dear..sounds like its a good friday, up your way...hot too...

[madbikeboy]

The weather in Auckland is wonderful, I'm in Parnell and there are women walking around here in bikini's. And it's always this sunny in Auckland.

Oh, shit, I think my meds are running out.

[Tank]

The weather in Auckland is wonderful, I'm in Parnell and there are women walking around here in bikini's. And it's always this sunny in Auckland.



The weather in Auckland is wonderful, I'm in Ponsonby and there are blokes walking around here in bikini's. Not good.

[chrisso]

Traffic? Traffic! this is what I fight with everyday

[xwhatsit]

The weather in Auckland is wonderful, I'm in Parnell and there are women walking around here in bikini's. And it's always this sunny in Auckland.

Oh, shit, I think my meds are running out.
Whereabouts are you on Parnell Rd? I work in a restaurant where it starts to flatten out, and even on freezing cold nights, there's still young student girls wandering around in diddley squat.

I like Parnell Rd, always a delightful, ever-changing view :shifty:

[raftn]

Whereabouts are you on Parnell Rd? I work in a restaurant where it starts to flatten out, and even on freezing cold nights, there's still young student girls wandering around in diddley squat.

I like Parnell Rd, always a delightful, ever-changing view :shifty:

K'rd Can be a pretty interesting place to!

[NOMIS]

I've seen 40 foot refers (refridgerator containers) run out of diesel because people forgot where they put them. If they have export quality meat in them, they get smelly really fast, making them easier to find...

LOL!

Warkworth and the Northern. All we need now is a power cut, and it's back to 1920 in Auckland again...

try dairy products mate... even worse , or a amf container that somehow got flipped upside down full of milk fats.. lovely

[trustme]

Many years ago one of our drivers picked a up one of the very first 40' high Cubes at Lyttleton on a 40' self steer trailer ... Guess what???
The tunnel won
Fortunately the expensive machinery inside was not damaged & Washdyke Brewery did not have to stop production

[Big Dave]

<headline>Major crash shuts Eastern Distributor</headline>

<!--articleTools Top--> <byline>Georgina Robinson</byline>
<date>October 3, 2008 - 11:41AM</date>

<!--bylineDetails-->
<!--articleDetails--> <!--articleExtras-wrap--> <bod> A seven-vehicle pile-up has this morning shut down all southbound lanes on Sydney's Eastern Distributor and the Harbour Tunnel.
NSW Ambulance says up to six cars and one truck are believed to be involved in the crash, which occurred about 11am just past the Eastern Distributor's Darlinghurst Street exit at Moore Park.
</bod>

[Dooly]

Just wondering as I don't experience traffic holdups here.
Obviously when the traffic grinds to a halt and delays are regular and for ages, how do employers react to you guys who dont make it to work on time every now and again.
Is it accepted as normal, and not worried about or are you expected to leave early just in case it happens?

[jrandom]

Traffic? Traffic! this is what I fight with everyday

All I see is nice wide filtering lanes.

[skidMark]

Whereabouts are you on Parnell Rd? I work in a restaurant where it starts to flatten out, and even on freezing cold nights, there's still young student girls wandering around in diddley squat.

I like Parnell Rd, always a delightful, ever-changing view :shifty:


Its the ones walking to work on k road.

[MarkH]

Traffic? Traffic! this is what I fight with everyday

Bloody Hell! :gob:

I hope you don't try to drive a car in that traffic. Looks like a good place for a narrow bike with good manoeuvrability and good brakes & acceleration. Gear up and go combat commuting!

[jrandom]

good place for a narrow bike

Fuggoff, you could fit a bloody Electra Glide through there.

[MarkH]

Fuggoff, you could fit a bloody Electra Glide through there.

Sure - mostly. But when filtering you always come across smaller gaps - it would be good to use a bike that can get through almost anywhere and not get held up stuff all. With that amount of traffic the better the filtering ability the quicker you get to where you are going.

[Maha]

So they are going to pull the damaged bridge down tonight?
Wouldn't mind a traffic update some time soon, Anne has just left Hamilton.
I guess they wont start taking it down till later?

[Voltaire]

I went over the shore to pick up a part from Wairau Road and on the way back the traffic was just slowing down at Takapuna On ramp.When it stopped I thought I try a bit of filtering and got almost to the front.
Truck with crane or similar hit the old bridge, VW beetle collected some debris, driver was a bit shocked ( as you would expect) but walked to ambulance.
A guy on a another bike pulled up and we decided to ride back up the lane and go down the bus lane.( the 900ss is not good for turning around in traffic jams.
Was going well until path was blocked by big red fire engine thingie...by then people were escaping from their cages and talking to each other and me....met some nice people from Palmerston North. Suddenly a Policeman started telling people to " get back in your cars" ....looked at me and other biker and said " get back into your vehicle"
" ....I'm on a bike....."
" well get back to it..and stay where you are....it will be clear soon.."
other biker made the observation " I'm no structural engineer but I doubt they will be opening the road any time soon"
Second time speaking to cops in a week....since busted on the bridge...literally only 100 metres away.
Then they got the cars to nearest the bus lane to reverse and eventually started clearing the lanes....saw some interesting reversing....
Got on the bus lane and off to work.
I imagine they will just knock it down today...looked too far gone to save.
oh.....and I too will have some beers tonight.
The photos I took were not as good as the Herald ones....only went round the office.

[R6_kid]

The traffic is backed up to the Greenhithe Road overbridge heading West as of about 4:45.... haven't seen it this bad out this way in a loooooong time.

May go out and put on some entertainment on the overbridge for those stuck in the traffic!

[Mrs Busa Pete]

Just wondering as I don't experience traffic holdups here.
Obviously when the traffic grinds to a halt and delays are regular and for ages, how do employers react to you guys who dont make it to work on time every now and again.
Is it accepted as normal, and not worried about or are you expected to leave early just in case it happens?

Took me 2 hours to get to work (im working in saint heliers) Rang the boss she just said don't stress so open the shop an hour late. Then she couldn't even get there to take over so had to shut the shop. That will be around 3/4 hours of lost trade.

I was lucky while every one was queing in northcote i went to birkenhead and got on at onewa from there.

[NighthawkNZ]

Northern Motorway in chaos.

I want to know how our cat Chaos got up there to Auckland? :laugh:

[R6_kid]

I want to know how our cat Chaos got up there to Auckland? :laugh:

I wanna know how he feels having the whole Northern Motorway in him...

[Maha]

Southern (north bound) seems to be alright, just got a txt from Anne saying it was empty at Ellerslie, little bit at Market Rd but not bad.
Not sure about the City/Bridge yet

[MadDuck]

Texting and driving - surely not :eek:

[Maha]

Texting and driving - surely not :eek:

Noooooooooooooo that would be Hannah doing the txting....Annes drinking silly!

[NighthawkNZ]

I wanna know how he feels having the whole Northern Motorway in him...

that was my other thought... <_<

[Usarka]

I was heading norf, saw a goldwing and another "sportier" bike sitting in traffic about 3km from the holdup.


WTF?????????????

[Big Dave]

http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/index.php?alias=tr_auck_onewa

[Usarka]

http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/index.php?alias=tr_auck_onewa

Yeah cleared now, but it was just another reason for going through riverhead and having a pint a hallertau at 2pm :drinkup:

[Swoop]

The Harold piccie makes the overbridge look pretty fu*ked!
As predicted...

So they are going to pull the damaged bridge down tonight?
The southbound will be closed from 8pm, according to TV3 news.


The best way would be to call in the Army engineers and get them to simply wrap some C4 and det. cord around that span, then just blow it in place. Bulldozers and a few dumptrucks = all gone in about 4 hrs.

What will happen???
Two blokes with a kango hammer and the bastard will still be very unstable at mid-day tomorrow...

[Naki Rat]

Yeah cleared now, but it was just another reason for going through riverhead and having a pint a hallertau at 2pm :drinkup:

Mmmmmmmmmmmm... Hallertau :drinkup:

[rwh]

The overbridge was described as 'old' - is (was) it disused anyway? Or is there now a delay while it gets replaced?

Also I don't see any suggestions of charges being laid against the truck driver, which surprises me a little.

Richard

[westie]

May go out and put on some entertainment on the overbridge for those stuck in the traffic!

Ah a captive audience. Sounds good.

Or up and down the median:shifty:

[slopster]

[QUOTE=Swoop;1756089]


The best way would be to call in the Army engineers and get them to simply wrap some C4 and det. cord around that span, then just blow it in place. Bulldozers and a few dumptrucks = all gone in about 4 hrs.

QUOTE]

Ha do you know the safety distance for a steel cutting charge? Would never happen in an urban area.

[Swoop]

[QUOTE=Swoop;1756089]


The best way would be to call in the Army engineers and get them to simply wrap some C4 and det. cord around that span, then just blow it in place. Bulldozers and a few dumptrucks = all gone in about 4 hrs.

QUOTE]

Ha do you know the safety distance for a steel cutting charge?
Yes.
Having been involved with 500lbs going "up in smoke" on Kaipara, I in fact do.

Unfortunately the increased faggotry and PC namby-pambyness in NZ would have a serious amount of involvement in this bloated bureaucratic process nowadays. If a simple and expedient solution like this was even suggested to the retards in power, they would have a coronary.

Forget the OSH poofters and (grossly over-estimated) safety distances.
Forget the CIVU morons who will close a motorway for 5hrs to take a few photo's and measurements.

"Simple and efficient" in NZ has been killed off years ago.

[danchop]

The overbridge was described as 'old' - is (was) it disused anyway? Or is there now a delay while it gets replaced?

Also I don't see any suggestions of charges being laid against the truck driver, which surprises me a little.

Richard
the onewa road interchange where this happened has been in the process of a major upgrade for the past year and a bit,its due to be completed mid 2009,the new off ramp was opened about 3 weeks ago which made the other one that was hit redundant,lucky it wasnt one of the new ones hit though

[Usarka]

btw, having ridden for the first time, isnt that northbound onramp from barrys point road mint when your tyres are nice and warm :eek:

[vifferman]

Apparently, the bridge was scheduled for demolition in two months anyway, so they just brought the demolition forward a bit.
The work on the new interchanges is bollix. They've got two lanes going all the way down Onewa Road now, but instead of extending the Transit lane all the way to the motorway, it's for buses only. Waste of time and OUR money, as it does almost nothing to reduce congestion. All for a few buses...

[slopster]

[QUOTE=slopster;1756802]
Yes.
Having been involved with 500lbs going "up in smoke" on Kaipara, I in fact do.

Unfortunately the increased faggotry and PC namby-pambyness in NZ would have a serious amount of involvement in this bloated bureaucratic process nowadays. If a simple and expedient solution like this was even suggested to the retards in power, they would have a coronary.

Forget the OSH poofters and (grossly over-estimated) safety distances.
Forget the CIVU morons who will close a motorway for 5hrs to take a few photo's and measurements.

"Simple and efficient" in NZ has been killed off years ago.

kiapara is a little more suited then auckland city for that sort of carrry on. safety distance is 1000m radius for military pers in the open and that comes from the army not osh

[Swoop]

kiapara is a little more suited then auckland city for that sort of carrry on. safety distance is 1000m radius for military pers in the open and that comes from the army not osh
Precisely the point. I would have called 1200m as the safety radius which would have been the easiest option to stop traffic. The residents would have been another problem, but been easy to move out.
Steel cutting would have been a non-option as simple concrete shear would have sufficed. Let the span drop and then cut the reinforcing steel afterwards.
Done and dusted in minimal time.

[lb99]

Forget the OSH poofters ......

check out the dude using a concrete saw overhead without ear or eye protection at about 21 sec

http://www.3news.co.nz/News/NationalNews/CallsmadeforsecondAucklandHarbourcrossingfollowing overbridgesmash/tabid/423/articleID/74443/cat/64/Default.aspx

[madbikeboy]

Whereabouts are you on Parnell Rd? I work in a restaurant where it starts to flatten out, and even on freezing cold nights, there's still young student girls wandering around in diddley squat.

I like Parnell Rd, always a delightful, ever-changing view :shifty:

I'm on near Nori and Mint. Mmm, student babes... Seriously, great place to work. You're not the guy at Movenpick?

[xwhatsit]

I'm on near Nori and Mint. Mmm, student babes... Seriously, great place to work. You're not the guy at Movenpick?

Nup -- that would be Roman, the guy with the black ZXR250? Nice guy.

My bike's between the Strawberry Alarmclock and Shahi. Work nights.

Even the waitresses at Nori aren't too bad :laugh:

[madbikeboy]

Nup -- that would be Roman, the guy with the black ZXR250? Nice guy.

My bike's between the Strawberry Alarmclock and Shahi. Work nights.

Even the waitresses at Nori aren't too bad :laugh:

Ahah! you work at the Italian place, right!?! Just across from Subway. Good food there. Shall we form a club - the Parnell Badass Club. Hmm, just doesn't sound cool or streetwise does it...?

[Horse]

Fuggoff, you could fit a bloody Electra Glide through there.

But perhaps not a Kawasaki Concours, which according to reliable instrumentation [1] is wider than an Electra Glide.

[1] A tape measure. Wielded by the Concours owner.