Campbell Live - Rope barriers.

**Lou Girardin** · 10th August 2005, 09:19

I watched the story about the Road Safety conference on at present. Campbell interviewed two delegates about safety matters.
He also showed a video of the barriers on Centenial Highway deflecting a car, which is all well and good.
But again there's no mention of the forgotten road users - us.
I was annoyed enough to email the show and point out that if the footage had been of a biker, they would not have been able to screen it. He would have been dismembered.
I also pointed out that these killer barriers are only used because they're cheap.
I wonder if I get a response?

**bugjuice** · 10th August 2005, 09:20

hope you do. Good on ya for emailing them too. I would have done the same if I had been watching. I know you will, but let us know if you hear back..

**louisb** · 10th August 2005, 09:22

Yep... saw that too.

I was waiting for them to mention how dangerous they were. However they go on to praise them and say how safe and CHEAP they are. The first thing the guy said was they are 'cost effective'. priorities!

**scumdog** · 10th August 2005, 10:12

Saw it, they had the nerve to say that a concrete barrier would have been worse for the car!! (Had film footage of a car hitting the rope barrier, barely touched it and Canmpbell and co. were touting how good the rope barrier was)
Car looked like it had nudged a shredder.

**Beemer** · 10th August 2005, 10:14

Yup, made my husband jump up and down, that's for sure! "Bloody cheesecutters, if a rider hits them it would be a different story!"

The thing is, I wish that moron who had hit them had got stuck in them and then a logging truck had come around the corner and buried him. Yes, for cars they are probably very cheap and effective, but they are lethal to a human body not protected by a shitload of metal.

It makes me wonder why they always focus on how many motorcyclists suffer death and injury when they want to make us pay more ACC levies, but when they talk about road safety, they only focus on cars and drivers?

**vifferman** · 10th August 2005, 10:17

Originally Posted by scumdog

Saw it, they had the nerve to say that a concrete barrier would have been worse for the car!! (Had film footage of a car hitting the rope barrier, barely touched it and Canmpbell and co. were touting how good the rope barrier was)
Car looked like it had nudged a shredder.

Whereas if it had hit a concrete one, it would've mostly just slid along.

There was an item in The NZ Harold this morning saying how effective the cheese slicers were, like the one in Wellytown (Ngauranga Gorge??) which had completely eliminated head-on collisions for that 700m stretch of moronway.

**Motu** · 10th August 2005, 10:24

I saw a car that had gone into the rope barrier on the Ramarama straights on the Sthrn M/W....it had spun the car around and was pointing the opposite way,there is a wide grass medium there,if this happened further south on SH1 where the rope is just down the centre,the car would of been hurled back into the traffic.

It's been over a month now - Te Kauwhata is still in disaray,the wire rope lying on the ground,posts bowled over....there must be some big pow wows going on over this.

**scumdog** · 10th August 2005, 10:27

I had a suspicion that the rope barrier would have a liklihood of 'grabbing' a car and spinning it around - seems by the above I am correct.

**vifferman** · 10th August 2005, 10:29

Originally Posted by Motu

It's been over a month now - Te Kauwhata is still in disaray,the wire rope lying on the ground,posts bowled over....there must be some big pow wows going on over this.

Or not.
"Errr... where are we gonna get some more of that rope from?"
"Same place as last time - just nick some off a boat, paint it grey."

Perhaps what they should do is make barriers out of something more compliant that's hard to get rid of, like dead car bodies, tyre mountains, bales of waste paper, bags of empty milk cartons, sacks of politicians' taxi chits...

**bugjuice** · 10th August 2005, 10:32

to me, this crap going on just shows that no one in 'power' and making the decisions has ever actually ridden a bike, or looked at it from our point of view. We should write to Cambell on the soul point that we pay more ACC than cars, yet ACC aren't helping us to be safe on the roads, so the circle keeps going

**SARGE** · 10th August 2005, 10:39

Originally Posted by bugjuice

to me, this crap going on just shows that no one in 'power' and making the decisions has ever actually ridden a bike, or looked at it from our point of view. We should write to Cambell on the soul point that we pay more ACC than cars, yet ACC aren't helping us to be safe on the roads, so the circle keeps going

here is the shows homepage.. http://campbelllive.tv3.co.nz/
email them..let them know we are out here ... campbelllive@tv3.co.nz

**The Stranger:Me** · 10th August 2005, 10:42

I doubt a single email to Campbell & co will make a difference but if they get a thousand they think about it. There a potentially powerful lobby in this group.