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[ManDownUnder]

Yup - this morning all the way from the end of the NW Motorway right into about Te Atatu...

Cages everywhere by 7:00. Damn that lot is blocking up early!

Anyone else having troubles being blocked up first thing these days? :shake:

[T.I.E]

came in from the southern motorway the other day 3 accidents and the motorway was screwed for ages. what do you do if ya need to go for a piss?
7 am is not early enough anymore. rush hours or hours?
from 6.30am till 10 am and sometimes all day till 7.30pm
what do you have to do. new motorways? how long will they last? 10 lanes whats that gonna do. keep riding bikes i say. how can motor bikes get that bus lane on the side of the motorways? do we need to lobby for it or something?

[Motu]

This week has been a paradigm shift in my reality - every day this week I am 20mins later to arrive at work...there must some roadworks or police presence somewhere else to move them onto the NW,or maybe everyone is on early shift this week?

And then at work...it was like a light switch.Last week we were run off our feet,turning work away as we were just so busy.On monday there was NOTHING! Tues same again,one of my guys went home at lunchtime and the other I have painting over the graffiti.Today we have enough work to run over to tomorrow and there is work booked in too.Got the Frosty Van here today - no hurry he says....I hate it when they say that,cause then I don't hurry at all at all.

[Dr Bob]

Yup - this morning all the way from the end of the NW Motorway right into about Te Atatu...

Cages everywhere by 7:00. Damn that lot is blocking up early!

Anyone else having troubles being blocked up first thing these days? :shake:

Try muesli

[Hitcher]

Hah! Wait until your population grows, as projected, by another 500,000-odd by 2012.

Maybe the Government should make the whole place into a great big parking lot and people could live in their cars. There could be a whole new drive-through growth industry supplying excessively milky "lattes", in-car hair gel application, breast implants and botox. And for the women...

[Motu]

.....and roadside baffold removal.

[Blakamin]

came in from the southern motorway the other day 3 accidents and the motorway was screwed for ages. what do you do if ya need to go for a piss?
7 am is not early enough anymore. rush hours or hours?
from 6.30am till 10 am and sometimes all day till 7.30pm
what do you have to do. new motorways? how long will they last? 10 lanes whats that gonna do.
awww.... poor you.... just think how many people are in auckland.... what, maybe half a million at a stretch???

try driving in Melbourne or Sydney... or Brisbane... not to mention real big places...

f'rinstance... trying to get from 20ks outta Melbourne to the city could take about 3 hours....
trying to get from one side to the other in the morning or afternoon could take you about 5 hours... not all the time, but it happens


at least you got 2 lanes.... try getting outta welly to raumati (48ks) on a friday... :brick: 1 friggin lane from porrirua!

[Lou Girardin]

awww.... poor you.... just think how many people are in auckland.... what, maybe half a million at a stretch???

try driving in Melbourne or Sydney... or Brisbane... not to mention real big places...

f'rinstance... trying to get from 20ks outta Melbourne to the city could take about 3 hours....
trying to get from one side to the other in the morning or afternoon could take you about 5 hours... not all the time, but it happens


at least you got 2 lanes.... try getting outta welly to raumati (48ks) on a friday... :brick: 1 friggin lane from porrirua!

St Kilda to the airport in 20 mins at 6.30AM. Same at 5.00PM Try that in Auck.
PS There's a mil in Auck now.
PPS Single laning is the latest answer to the road toll, if you can only do 10 km/h you won't die.

[mattt]

St Kilda to the airport in 20 mins at 6.30AM. Same at 5.00PM Try that in Auck.
PS There's a mil in Auck now.
PPS Single laning is the latest answer to the road toll, if you can only do 10 km/h you won't die.

Yeh you will - die of boredom. :2thumbsup

[Joni]

Yup - this morning all the way from the end of the NW Motorway right into about Te Atatu...

Cages everywhere by 7:00. Damn that lot is blocking up early!

Anyone else having troubles being blocked up first thing these days? :shake:

I leave (Te Atatu) at about 6:30, is pretty clear till about Spag. junction.... MDU, try leaving just a little earlier, its worth it! :niceone:
Altho, this morning I was wondering.... :sleep:, some extra zzz's would have been great!

[speedpro]

There's a shit load of people into bikes out west and I don't know any of them.

What to do, what to do.........

[Blakamin]

St Kilda to the airport in 20 mins at 6.30AM. Same at 5.00PM Try that in Auck.

up what?? the nepean highway???? try at 7am... or 9am.... (lived in elsternwick and went to northcote (20ks) everyday on the z9 for 6 months...took an hour...(nepean, punt road, high street)

cool... a mil in orcs.... time for a chernobyl... (p/t)

and sinlge lanes around here havent stoppped people dying... dont you remember the killer highway?? how about the 3 dead down here in the last week and a half???

[Joni]

There's a shit load of people into bikes out west and I don't know any of them.

What to do, what to do.........

Yes there are, and some really nice people too.... maybe dinner/drinks or something.... :spudwhat:

[Motu]

Back to normal,dunno what the hell those last 4 days were about - people work such wierd hours theses days that maybe everyone is on the same shift at once?

[marty]

i used to be stopped at drury, then again at papakura, then again at manurewa, for a 7am start at auckland airport. the tail proper started at manukau at that time of the morning. there are a LOT of people commuting from south of the bombays - traffic would be solid at 80-90k all the way up the southern motorway from bombay to drury about 0630am

[AMPS]

up what?? the nepean highway???? try at 7am... or 9am.... (lived in elsternwick and went to northcote (20ks) everyday on the z9 for 6 months...took an hour...(nepean, punt road, high street)

cool... a mil in orcs.... time for a chernobyl... (p/t)

and sinlge lanes around here havent stoppped people dying... dont you remember the killer highway?? how about the 3 dead down here in the last week and a half???

Don't know the street name, it was multi-lane motorway right into the city centre. I was referring to SH1 at Mercer in particular, really safe now at 50 km/h.
Lou

[Motu]

Oh dear,I'm going to be doing that one soon marty - I've been going south at night for the last year or more often and the traffic is light,the only holdup is the Rosscommon rd/Wiri station rd lights,and that seems a random event - but I haven't come north for a morning start yet...

[marty]

i used to take an hour from cambridge to mercer, then 30 mins to the airport from there. it's not worth turning off at manurewa and going clevedon/roscommon - it's just too busy. likewise, don't go puhinui - too many lights, it's 50k, and packed. just stay in the *fast* lane, the stopping is only for a bit until the drury/papakura/manurewa traffic has merged, and if you're in the LH lane, you'll have to make room, which sends you backwards.

[marty]

on the flip side, i could do airport-mercer in 20 mins at 0400am, then 50 mins home from mercer. not atm though, with all the roadworks thru te kauwhata.

[speedpro]

I did West Hamilton to Whenuapai in 55 minutes on an XS1100 once in the early morning. The road is heaps better now but you'd be lucky nowadays to be that quick, too much traffic. Slept in and had to get to work. Luckily I didn't have to test that excuse. Full throttle everywhere, best start to the day you could get.

Girlfriend lived up riverhead Rd for a bit as well, also not a bad way to start the day, and finish it.

[duckman]

Girlfriend lived up riverhead Rd for a bit as well, also not a bad way to start the day, and finish it.

Mmmmm.... The road or your Girlfriend ?? :yeah:

[Sparky Bills]

I did West Hamilton to Whenuapai in 55 minutes on an XS1100 once in the early morning. The road is heaps better now but you'd be lucky nowadays to be that quick, too much traffic. Slept in and had to get to work. Luckily I didn't have to test that excuse. Full throttle everywhere, best start to the day you could get.

Girlfriend lived up riverhead Rd for a bit as well, also not a bad way to start the day, and finish it.



Now thats not a good example to be setting for our younger viewers!!
Shame on you! :ar15: