Remedy found for those cutting corners in Paradise

[FJRider]

On one particular corner in the Kawerau gorge here in Paradise ... Police have often focused on photographing those crossing the double yellow center lines. Well .. no more. The remedy has been found and installed.

Below is a few recent pics of the corner in question. The skid marks on the road tell a few stories ....

The yellow posts go for 200 meters total.

A few posts missing (already) and tyre marks on most ...

[Berries]

Imagine a campervan coming round that corner and just clipping a post enough to send it flying in to the path of a rider going the other way. Clearly if some are missing they are getting hit. That'll be a nice surprise as you set up for the corner at night.

In one direction (your 4th photo) you can see clearly that there are no vehicles coming and thus is is not unsafe to cut the corner. Fuck, it was a decent overtaking opportunity until the double yellows got painted. If there were a shed load of crashes caused by people crossing the centre line here then I could understand it, but there aren't any. So all that has happened is an unnecessary hazard has been introduced for all road users but one that could be particularly bad for motorcyclists. And only a week or two before MSAC come down here and tell us about all the good work they are doing making the roads safer for motorbike riders.

Bollocks.

[AllanB]

Road to Queenstown?

Interesting solution - writing tickets does not work.

[Madness]

Bollocks.

Someone should start a partition!

[ellipsis]

Someone should start a partition!

...putting a wall there would be a little extreme...

[unstuck]

Had lots of scary moments through there in the spray truck, I think the addition of those things would make it worse.

[haydes55]

I like how the sticks are painted to blend into the center line

[caspernz]

Yippee! A solution... What was the problem though?

Bit like the Rimutaka Hill...it just had to have that solid double yellow all the way across

[ellipsis]

Statistically campervan drivers are bad for keeping left anyway. They look a lot safer for a bike to hit than the Cheese Cutter barriers though and maybe they will install them if these don't work. Some of you will just have to slow down a bit more on that road eh?

...fuck off twat...

[Akzle]

Statistically campervan drivers are bad for keeping left anyway. They look a lot safer for a bike to hit than the Cheese Cutter barriers though and maybe they will install them if these don't work. Some of you will just have to slow down a bit more on that road eh?

or they could have stood a stack of dogs in a line down the middle... but they'd probably still get collected by fuckwits claiming they're moving 'too fast"

[Akzle]

@op.

SLALOM BABY!

[Banditbandit]

[FJRider]

In one direction (your 4th photo) you can see clearly that there are no vehicles coming and thus is is not unsafe to cut the corner.

To be fair ... I took the pic standing off the road on the hard right hand side of the road. 50 meters to the cliff face as the road veers to the right and then left up the hill.

Had I taken it more to the left ... you would lose sight of the uphill bit very soon after that point.

Interestingly ... visitors to the area have less issue with this corner than the locals ... go figure ...

[FJRider]

Road to Queenstown?

Interesting solution - writing tickets does not work.

[Berries]

Statistically campervan drivers are bad for keeping left anyway. They look a lot safer for a bike to hit than the Cheese Cutter barriers though and maybe they will install them if these don't work. Some of you will just have to slow down a bit more on that road eh?

If anyone was going to pick up the wrong end of the stick it was you. Statistically campervans are wider than cars and therefore much more likely to hit these posts. As are trucks, and buses, as witnessed by the fact that at least three of them were down at the weekend, just waiting to be flicked back in to the lane by a passing vehicle. My concern is with a post being knocked out and flung towards someone riding past, the type of incident that is almost impossible to avoid regardless of what speed you are riding.