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    Quote Originally Posted by rebel View Post
    The original poster has obviously never tried getting into Wellington on a Sunday afternoon. I've seen traffic banked all the way up to Levin from Pram before, with the passing lanes open, most motorists are good about it with pretty much all traffic in the slow lane. You get the odd impatient cunt (probably and Aucklander) who tries to pass everyone but a truck usually blocks the passing lane off.
    I don't know why they are blocking them off over the holiday period, maybe to prevent bottlenecks, caused by an increase of dickhead Auckland drivers heading south.

    For something different I came into Wellington yesterday via Napier and Wairarapa, what a fucking good drive, only added an extra 100km and I didn't have to put up with the boring drive south of Levin.
    Yep the best way to get to Welly for sure...Just read headlines on "stuff"

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    The best way to get to Wellington? On the ferry from Picton. Or in a 737.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allycatz View Post
    But the passing lane before Waikanae doesnt get used for passing...itends up with two solid stationary rows of traffic, whilst people decide whos going to go first at the end of it. It does move the traffic through quicker. When I lived at Waikanae beach it could take over an hour just to get from Paraparaumu to the Waikanae lights
    I was working in Kapiti recently and noticed on the way home north that no one used the right-hand passing lane just south of Waikanae - everyone stayed in the left lane so there was no great rush to be 'first' at the end where it merges into one lane.

    The problem is, it's not that people get impatient, it's that they have NO FUCKING IDEA how to merge when passing lanes end, so they all sit there, looking ahead and swearing black and blue that they won't let in the 'fuckwit' on their right!

    So while I moan along with the rest of you, it does actually seem to prevent these bottle-necks in peak traffic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spacemonkey View Post
    Yeah but it still beats trying to get out of Auckland!
    Not so sure about that. I've done the exit out of Welly on a weekend holiday and it aint pretty..

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    IMHO the root cause of the problem are the numpties who drive at 80kph compounded by those who speed up to 100kph on the passing lanes further compounded by those that use the passing lanes (while trying to stay as close to the speed limit as they can, for obvious reasons)

    All this means that when a passing oppportunity arrises, many desperate road users charge into it in an attempt to get past said numpties leading to an "apparent" inability to merge properly.

    I reckon we need more passing opportunities and a little more consideration from slower drivers. (And maybe the Police should avoid setting up their speed checks on passing lanes)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clockwork View Post
    (And maybe the Police should avoid setting up their speed checks on passing lanes)
    how the hell do you think they will get their quota if not???


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    Quote Originally Posted by marty View Post
    The best way to get to Wellington? ... Or in a 737.
    Dunno. Getting into Wellytown Ive had some serious brown-trouser moments in 737's...
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    Quote Originally Posted by lee View Post
    All they are doing is making it so that those of us who can drive and aren't scared timid fuckwits behind the wheel have no-where to overtake the scared timid fuckwits who all want to go for a 'tootle' along our main highway from Welly at 80kph. Thus making our journeys up this inadequate peice of road all the more frustrating, because we can't overtake because all the f-ing passing lanes are closed.
    My 15 y/o learner daughter is on her bike today, doing her very first four-hour ride to a major city, and assholes with attitudes like yours are exactly the people we fear the most.

    Get your head in order or get off the road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    Dunno. Getting into Wellytown Ive had some serious brown-trouser moments in 737's...
    You know that when all the passengers erupt into spontaneous applause on the runway that it was a scarey landing.That happens quite often here at Welly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DangerousBastard View Post
    My 15 y/o learner daughter is on her bike today, doing her very first four-hour ride to a major city, and assholes with attitudes like yours are exactly the people we fear the most.

    Get your head in order or get off the road.

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    There's a huge difference between:
    * roads that are not full, where passing a "slow" person helps you get on with things, and
    * roads that are at capacity, where the traffic is slow but it's not one person, it's the whole road.

    When the roads are "full", passing a few people makes no difference to you. You still end up in the long long queue of slow traffic, just a few tens of metres further forward than your previous position. Even if everybody drove perfectly (merged properly at the ends of the passing lanes etc), passing lanes make no sense in full roads.

    (What we need are four lanes, Auckland to Wellington, the whole bloody way. Passing lanes (on SH1) are for Third world countries.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by DangerousBastard View Post
    My 15 y/o learner daughter is on her bike today, doing her very first four-hour ride to a major city, and assholes with attitudes like yours are exactly the people we fear the most.

    Get your head in order or get off the road.

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    Hey DB - One one hand you want people with their heads in order - but you post stuff like this:

    Quote Originally Posted by DangerousBastard View Post
    Reminds me when I sat my restricted on my 650 (I had an exemption), the clock on the bike was about 20min fast so I "discovered" on the way there I was about 15 minutes "late". So here I am lane-splitting the fuck out of the open road at about 130k on a fooken noisy vtwin with an L plate on. How the hell I wasn't *555'ed I'll never know.

    Steve
    So is it only important for other people to be sensible when its your princess on the road - but fuck everybody else?

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