Auckland traffic

[Moi]

which doesn't minimise the fact that it's a stinking shit hole and if your life is worth so liitle you'll donante 3 hours a day to shitting in your own back yard, polluting the fuck out of shit, then you likely suffer some kind of retardation.

One of your more erudite comments...

[Maha]

So all I'm hearing on these posts is non-Aucklanders moaning about Auckland traffic.

I travel albany to Papakura 5 days a week. great fun on the bike. Can't see why more don't bike. Oh yeah that's right most people think motorbiking is too dangerous.... those poor people.

For more humour...read this.

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...nding-Auckland

[Motu]

I lived in Auckland for 40 years, it's not the place I knew. Was a time I would do the Ton (160kph) commuting to work, and not on the motorway. Can't even get up to 100kph on the motorway now.

[nzspokes]

Has a motorcycle, then complains about travelling in a car.

[Voltaire]

I'd rather spend a hour or so stuck in traffic than all day working for peanuts in the provinces.

[Jeff Sichoe]

I'd rather pay 50% tax and set the immigration criteria such that we would struggle to fulfill our quota than sell our country short.

[Motu]

I'd rather spend a hour or so stuck in traffic than all day working for peanuts in the provinces.

Been there done that - take the peanuts every time.

[Big Dog]

Been there done that - take the peanuts every time.

Perhaps at the end of a forty year career when my children are old and educated enough that I have the luxury of that choice it will be mine too. Until then I have 6 mouths to feed, 3 to educate and a mortgage to pay.

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[Voltaire]

Been there done that - take the peanuts every time.

I did two years of that in Nelson in the mid 90's..... Stopped at the old house on SH 6 for a photo, traffic there has got worse too.

[buggerit]

A newspaper article from July 1962

[Gremlin]

Has a motorcycle, then complains about travelling in a car.

Well he also complained about all the other cars, probably responsible for holding up his car

Yeah, traffic is bad, but I've also sat in Chch and Wlg traffic. Big difference is the length of time it's bad though. Over the last decade Auckland's "rush hour" has mostly been replaced by "all day shite". If there is a major accident on the motorway during morning rush or mid morning, then it will probably be screwed until evening rush.

Funny you post this, considering today I had to go Ellerslie > Bucklands Beach this evening at 1730... instead of 20min outside busy periods it took 45min in middle of crawling traffic. Stuck in the van of course. Typically however, I try to adjust my schedule to stay off roads at the critical points, be at a client, office etc. Being in IT I also work from home, and don't commute on regular hours. While stuck in the traffic I was certainly musing about how people can do that every day and why can't flexible hours or shifted hours be used more...

Now, remember Christmas is coming up so traffic is worse than normal... it's also going to continue getting worse for 1-2 weeks. Little after Christmas it's actually really good, as all the Aucklanders are now clogging up Tauranga, Coromandel etc

[rastuscat]

I used to live in Sunnynook. And work in Glen Innes. I thank my stars my wife and I separated and I left Auckland behind in 2003.

Each time I visit I wonder why I stayed so long.

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[haydes55]

Has a motorcycle, then complains about travelling in a car.

It's frustrating, but after having her hip cut into 4 pieces and screwed back together, my Mrs can't ride pillion back home to kihikihi.

I just always assumed that at least 1000 people would choose to ride a motorbike through traffic instead of crawling. You'd be lucky to count 100 motorbikes ride past you if you sat by a motorway for 3 hours at rush hour(s).

We've all seen the research that if 1 in 10 drivers switched to a motorbike, rush hour would almost entirely disappear. It looks like less than 1 in 1000 people have some sanity.

[danchop]

unfortunately i have a job wheres theres only 2 employed for the sector in new zealand and both positions are based in auckland....i really have no option

[oldiebutagoody]

You'd be lucky to count 100 motorbikes ride past you if you sat by a motorway for 3 hours at rush hour(s).

We've all seen the research that if 1 in 10 drivers switched to a motorbike, rush hour would almost entirely disappear. It looks like less than 1 in 1000 people have some sanity.

I commute daily.

My commute is a light traffic route, Massey in the west to Albany, about 15 mins, on probably the last congestion free part of the motorway network.

I take one of the bikes when the mood takes me, other days depends how I feel. It is actually not any faster on the bike than in my van, and no opportunity for splitting/filtering will gain any time along the way. Risks vs reward means 2 mins maximum gain played off against a huge increase in risk of encountering inattentive drivers or non signalling lane changers or hyper speeding weavers. At the end of the day bike or car the whole network relies on everyone knowing where they are going and how to get there intelligently.

I have been passed often by WRX cage types who believe they are in a rush hour race, bikes weaving in a serpentine manner through the gaps in 100 kph traffic (steel caps, shorts and hoodie type), and for a 2-3 min gain until they are caught up and have to sit at the lights next to me.

I am back in Auckland currently for career, with a shift back down lower north island in about a month. I spent 20 years in the lower north Island, and it was very very good to me and the family. Auckland has the jobs, but little else you can either afford time or money to participate in.

Traffic is much much worse than it used to be. Commuting is commuting and you arrange your life around it accordingly, but the bottleneck if you are coming into and just trying to get through Auckland and out the other side is now something to be done at night time only.

There are a lot less motorbikes commuting than there were many years ago. Is it the increased risks from worse driving, better cars/less developed driving skills? Heavier volumes and fewer gaps to shoot through? less etiquette on the roads? There was a definite effort to get as many off motorbikes as possible through the last couple of decades by ACC and LTSA, it was never considered a solution to traffic congestion in comparison to forcing us onto buses and trains etc.

I support the concept of bus/motorbike lanes only on all arterial routes into AK, but then I am biased. Soon it won't be a problem anymore for me. I'll try not to let the door hit my ass on the way out.