SH2 median barriers

[WelshWizard]

Should really be called people cutters. Come off and hit one of those and it'll (literally) cut you in half clean as any knife.

Tried arguing with LTSA about them a while ago, basically message was "Don't care, get stuffed, motorcylists are scum and don't figure in our calculations anyway. And cheescutters are cheap."

As this is from 2005 just shows they still have not changed their minds about bike, Ford Falcons, and lorries

[Coyote]

Was there a call for them to change their minds? Can't possibly have been, otherwise they'd have done something surely.

(p/t)

[yungatart]

As this is from 2005 just shows they still have not changed their minds about bike, Ford Falcons, and lorries

We surely can't wait another three years for some action on this road side menace!

[WelshWizard]

Was there a call for them to change their minds? Can't possibly have been, otherwise they'd have done something surely.

(p/t)

Ixion had a good go back in 2005, as I he said then

"Don't care, get stuffed, motorcylists are scum and don't figure in our calculations anyway. And cheescutters are cheap"

So it has to be time to step up this campaign and get some thing moveing again, or we will be waiting for the next person to be killed by these things before any thing is done.

[Fudmucker]

Try another tack.

Back the biker/estate who suffered and take the traffic Engineer (who specified the damn thing for use) to court in their personal capacity for professional negligence and damages - or report him/her to the relevant engineering Council for the same professional negligence.

A bit of video evidence from around the world should reinforce the case... With good representation, you could have the person stripped of their right to practice as an engineer.

[PrincessBandit]

But back to the original post of this thread: something to be done at Maramarua. I've been travelling SH2 as a passanger and driver/rider for over 30 years and never come close to having an up close and personal ever along there. There already are speed restrictions at Mangatawhiri, Maramarua etc. but they get ignored. Basically it comes down to people paying the price of their impatience with others' lives. Perhaps some strategically placed judder bars (like in residential streets) might force traffic to slow in these areas. The thought of stuffing their suspension might put the brakes on speedsters rather than the risk of actually killing someone??? (Best limited speed zone in that area is Waitakaruru - can't speed through that corner onto the bridge!!)