Rimutaka Hill Road, diesel spill (27 September)

[cleverchap]

Not sure if this should be in General Ravings but ......

Sounds like the entire thing is coated in diesel.


"The spill reached from the bottom to at least the summit on the Wairarapa side."



http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post...a-Hill-traffic

[MD]

Not a mention anywhere in the News that they had caught, identified, or were even looking for the offender.

Here's a tip. It would be a truck that went over minutes before everyone started crashing.

[FJRider]

Not a mention anywhere in the News that they had caught, identified, or were even looking for the offender.

Here's a tip. It would be a truck that went over minutes before everyone started crashing.

I heard about it on the radio at 8:30 this morning ... I shall try to avoid using that road for a while ...

[Quasi]

hahah - youre all safe for today. Was open again by 8.40am. Ride on!

[FJRider]

hahah - youre all safe for today. Was open again by 8.40am. Ride on!

Thank god for that. It's beginning to feel like years since I went over that hill ... has the coffee improved at that place at the top ... ???

[BMWST?]

Thank god for that. It's beginning to feel like years since I went over that hill ... has the coffee improved at that place at the top ... ???

that place at the top has been closed for years,and now it and the toilets are gone...

[James Deuce]

It cost the GWRC $20k a year to run the toilets. And people still shit in the bushes behind it.

[FJRider]

that place at the top has been closed for years,and now it and the toilets are gone...

So it HAS been years since I was over that hill ... I must be due for a run up that way.

[MD]

So it HAS been years since I was over that hill ... I must be due for a run up that way.

Just remember to take a dump and empty the bladder beforehand

[FJRider]

Just remember to take a dump and empty the bladder beforehand

Mine doesn't smell ...

[BMWST?]

Mine doesn't smell ...

it only takes a few minutes to go bridge to bridge

[ducatilover]

it only takes a few minutes to go bridge to bridge

Doesn't take very long at all

[Omega1]

Is the road ok now?

[James Deuce]

Yes it's fine. The new bit is freaking awesome. They got rid of the bumpy, blind, fiddly, dangerous nadgery and replaced it with a bunch of perfectly surfaced sweepers and only one of them is decreasing radius. It's unbelievably quick up the Wellington side to the summit now.

The Wairarapa side needs some treatment now. Lots of subsidence with bumpy corner entries and ruts.

[Omega1]

Thanks for the reply - I'm hoping to go for a ride on Sunday, first outing for a while lucky coz the school holidays have just started. Didnt really want to travel up there then can off on the slippery stuff.

Cheers
O1