Auckland harbour bridge crossing?

**Magua** · 24th May 2009, 13:13

Did anyone get up early to join the masses this morning?

**YellowDog** · 24th May 2009, 13:22

If anyone had an important journey to make, they would have been screwed.

**Magua** · 24th May 2009, 13:23

If transit had allowed the people to cross then they could have controlled the situation. From where I was it looked as if the crowd just broke onto the motorway following some cyclists.

**Big Dave** · 24th May 2009, 13:47

I got up this afternoon.

**want-a-harley** · 24th May 2009, 13:53

Didn't, but good on em.

**R6_kid:Me** · 24th May 2009, 14:24

I was surprised they didn't just shut down the outside 2 lanes from St Mary's Bay to Stamford Street, and slow the other 2 lanes to 50kmh or something. Would have meant less of a disruption.

I was heading in to town and went home via West Auckland, glad i wasn't in a hurry that's for sure!

**Motu** · 24th May 2009, 15:39

I walked over it 50 years ago,I don't need to do it again.

**Laava** · 24th May 2009, 16:45

Never been that far south!

**Maha** · 24th May 2009, 16:47

No but we did manage to get down there, well, under the bridge to be exact.

**motorbyclist** · 24th May 2009, 17:02

did anyone think to put the auckland tag there? would've been a right bastard to steal!

**motorbyclist** · 24th May 2009, 17:12

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2436...Harbour-Bridge

dumb cunts - do they really expect a non-taxed means of transport to be given a several million dollar walkway that then need ongoing maintenance and security, clipped onto one of the clip ons on a bridge with an uncertain future?

i doubt even 10% of those "protesters" would actually use that walkway as part of a commute

there's already been put in place all the bus lanes and places to stow your cycles, so that people from all over the shore can realistically cycle a sensible distance before bussing into work.

if they want fast/cheap and reasonably clean transport, an fxr150 will get over the bridge fine

**peasea** · 24th May 2009, 17:53

Originally Posted by Magua

Did anyone get up early to join the masses this morning?

They had masses? Are they Catholics?

**Dave Lobster** · 24th May 2009, 18:05

Originally Posted by peasea

They had masses? Are they Catholics?

I saw there were a few young boys there.. so quite possibly.

**Timmay** · 25th May 2009, 21:39

I went, good fun. The traffic holdups were due to the police and transit not organizing anything and actually expecting that 10 cops would stop 3000+ people from doing what they had said they would do for weeks.

**Swoop** · 25th May 2009, 21:51

It is rather perverse, that a group of people march and disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of members of the public... who they wish to represent on a council of the populace.

Surely doing something that helps the population, rather than hindering it, would be a better approach for gaining support for a cause?