Traffic flow rate AKL Southern Motorway

[Moi]

Unemployed master race reporting in.

My commute in the morning is from bedroom to kitchen.

You don't stop at the toilet first?

Obviously master race has superior bladder...

[Maha]

Yeah see, I over looked the obvious...for the first time ever.

[Moi]

Yeah see, I over looked the obvious...for the first time ever.

Gotta be a first in everyone's life... and you waited this long for it...

[rastuscat]

In Christchurch we have those boards at the main entries to the city that display the present travel time to various points.

They work by polling bluetooth devices that pass by one point, and measure the time they take to then pass the second point.

Bluetooth devices that are connected to something are excluded, but most passing disconnected phones with the bluetooth turned on are polled.

The data isn't stored, coz that's be unacceptable to Nikki Hagar.

[Maha]

In Christchurch we have those boards at the main entries to the city that display the present travel time to various points.

They work by polling bluetooth devices that pass by one point, and measure the time they take to then pass the second point.

Bluetooth devices that are connected to something are excluded, but most passing disconnected phones with the bluetooth turned on are polled.

The data isn't stored, coz that's be unacceptable to Nikki Hagar.

They have them in Auckland as well, 1 hour to travel 15 kms is .....acceptable it would seem.

[nzspokes]

They have them in Auckland as well, 1 hour to travel 15 kms is .....acceptable it would seem.

You should learn to ride a motorcycle then, travel times are not affected.

[gjm]

You should learn to ride a motorcycle then, travel times are not affected.

Used to be the case between Takanini and Alfriston, until the lanes were narrowed. Now if you get two trucks side-by-side, it'd be suicidal to try and squeeze through.

[Maha]

You should learn to ride a motorcycle then, travel times are not affected.

I should learn to ride a motorbike?
Have you suggested to your missus that an ART course would be of immense help after her very public fuck up on the road?

[nzspokes]

Used to be the case between Takanini and Alfriston, until the lanes were narrowed. Now if you get two trucks side-by-side, it'd be suicidal to try and squeeze through.

Really, I did so last Tuesday night. Didnt seem that bad at all.

[Moi]

In Christchurch we have those boards at the main entries to the city that display the present travel time to various points...

They have them in Auckland as well, 1 hour to travel 15 kms is .....acceptable it would seem.

I have been reliably informed that the times on the motorway travel time signs are "written up" as part of the creative writing course run by NZTA under the authority of NZQA, where as AT's ones for the Urban Routes are written up by the local kindie kids who are doing basic numeracy...

[Swoop]

First of all, expect worse travel times around D'Auckland for the next while (2-3yrs) as the mentally retarded Auckland Council fuckwits have decided to meddle with the roads and dig a big hole in Albert St.

The Western Motorway was closed (yes, completely SHUT) a few nights back so resurfacing can happen all-lanes-at-once style. A beautiful job is being done, but NOT putting pointsmen and conrtols on the detour route is a(nother) stupid move.

Bingo! Slightly off-topic but TPTB have been deliberately slowing traffic down and thickening the congestion in Auckland for years now IMHO (motorway on-ramp lights, traffic lights being installed wherever possible, no more discretionary right hand turns, glacial progress on installing red light cameras to keep intersections clear).

Ramp-lights mean nothing. Ignore them on 2-wheels or 4.
They only want you to "stop", which we do while waiting for the car ahead. So just GO! when you get your chance!

[gjm]

Really, I did so last Tuesday night. Didnt seem that bad at all.

In the newly restricted narrower lanes? Rather you than me.

(Hopefully the narrowing is just temporary.)

[nzspokes]

In the newly restricted narrower lanes? Rather you than me.

(Hopefully the narrowing is just temporary.)

Yerp, not that bad at all. A Harley was struggling a bit but he let me through.

[rambaldi]

You don't stop at the toilet first?

Didn't you read, he is unemployed! He can't afford a toilet and a sink.

[Maha]

Didn't you read, he is unemployed! He can't afford a toilet and a sink.

Topic related, I have witnessed a female taking a piss on the Newmarket fly over. Traffic was stopped, car in front of me, and she got out of the back seat, squatted in front of the drivers open door and took a piss. Traffic started to moved before she was finished...all I could do was laugh, she worded sorry as she got back in the car, cleanliness was in order though, she rinsed her hands with a pump bottle out the rear window.

When needs must ...etc.