NZTA: doing it wrong again

[caseye]

And they're at it again...

The agency tasked to look after the nation's roadways have been called on to explain a cycle lane trial that left motor vehicles on a collision course.

The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) created two sets of cycle lanes on Thursday and Friday last week on either side of Roto-o-rangi Rd near Leamington in Cambridge.

Roto-o-rangi Rd was reduced to the size of a single lane just three paces wide, leaving local councillors fuming.

The speed limit was reduced to 60kmh to allow for the cyclists and cars to share the road but by Saturday, the monitored trial was called off.

Finally! I hope the fucking dip shit local and national politicians who thought that 1.5metres clearance for a car passing a cyclist was a good idea, now get to see the actual size of the roadway left for cars to use safely. Perfect, well No it's not. But now the evidence that pandering to the lycra brigade is in fact dangerous folly is available in black and white.
This road used to be a dual motor car cariageway.
Now legally seperated into the separate components that the lyrca wearers want and hey presto it becomes clear. WE NEED BIGGER ROADS.
Well we do if we want to let fucking push bikes use them too.
Seriously? Did it really have to come down to painting the lines on the road to actually see what anyone ordinary car driver told them in the first place. Our roads are not wide enough to allow motor vehicles and push bikes to operate safely in unison with the most outlandish claim that we must give them 2/3rds of our own lane when passing them.

[Kickaha]

Now legally seperated into the separate components that the lyrca wearers want and hey presto it becomes clear. WE NEED BIGGER ROADS.
Well we do if we want to let fucking push bikes use them too.
Seriously? Did it really have to come down to painting the lines on the road to actually see what anyone ordinary car driver told them in the first place. Our roads are not wide enough to allow motor vehicles and push bikes to operate safely in unison with the most outlandish claim that we must give them 2/3rds of our own lane when passing them.

If motorists/cyclists weren't all such a pack of ignorant cunts it wouldn't matter what width the road was

[R650R]

Ohh this is pure freakin gold, I just realised another copuple of aspects after cases post....
How the F does one give 1.5 m clearance in the above scenario assuming cyclists are using both lanes.
Also we know the cyclists wont use those lanes as due to no cars driving on them they will be full of glass (well according to the cyclists anyway)....

[mashman]

You gotta wonder who uttered the phrase: "I don't care. Just paint the fuckin road."

[Voltaire]

You gotta wonder who uttered the phrase: "I don't care. Just paint the fuckin road."

I bet a lot of money went into meetings and consultants before that phase was uttered

[mashman]

I bet a lot of money went into meetings and consultants before that phase was uttered

heh... I bet there was lots of laughter as the guys went about their work at the coalface. Kinda surprising that the lines are straight

[TheDemonLord]

And people think that Government departments have the brain power to come up with Elaborate schemes.....

[Moi]

It no longer exists...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times...llision-course

and there's even a way to give feedback to NZTA...

[awa355]

I ride that road most weeks and apart from the occasional club ride, there are rarely more than a few individual cyclists at any one time.

[R650R]

And people think that Government departments have the brain power to come up with Elaborate schemes.....

Assasinations, remote hijackings and other conspiracies are carried out by special forces, fucking around with roads is carried out by 'academics' in NZTA... no comparison really ;p

[TheDemonLord]

Assasinations, remote hijackings and other conspiracies are carried out by special forces, fucking around with roads is carried out by 'academics' in NZTA... no comparison really ;p

The Special Forces, however are still instructed by the Government that is infested with those same 'academics'

[pritch]

And if the department was asked to come up with an explanation they would likely say it was a "systemic failure". Acually no, it was complete idiocy.

[caspernz]

Assasinations, remote hijackings and other conspiracies are carried out by special forces, fucking around with roads is carried out by 'academics' in NZTA... no comparison really ;p

Oh I dunno Mr Ray, the funniest oxymoron in my book is Military Intelligence, you don't need to spend long in a green uniform to understand it...

The Special Forces, however are still instructed by the Government that is infested with those same 'academics'

And the Health & Safety worshipping has clouded the big picture...

[TheDemonLord]

And if the department was asked to come up with an explanation they would likely say it was a "systemic failure". Acually no, it was complete idiocy.

Aren't they the Same thing

[Swoop]

The Special Forces, however are still instructed by the Government that is infested with those same 'academics'

The poor bastards are crippled with the OSHmonster. You should hear the frustrations emanating.