Auckland traffic

[danchop]

you make toilet paper?

Close.......i deliver shit

[Mike.Gayner]

Oh fuck. Up. Your inane shit is boring.

Mad Aucklander. Huge mortgage got you stressed?

[Berries]

If I may interject, on behalf of the south island, ha fucking ha.

People from Hamilton slagging off Auckland? Aren't they one and the same?

[Night Falcon]

spent last weekend in the jungle. Traffic has got much slower up there from even 5yrs ago. Lots of bikes lane splitting. Not being used to it I wouldn't do it, just a matter of time before some cager half asleep does something unpredictable. Couldn't wait to leave the place....although the meal on Friday night at the 360 restaurant up the sky tower was 1st class....I had the chicken

[nzspokes]

spent last weekend in the jungle. Traffic has got much slower up there from even 5yrs ago. Lots of bikes lane splitting. Not being used to it I wouldn't do it, just a matter of time before some cager half asleep does something unpredictable. Couldn't wait to leave the place....although the meal on Friday night at the 360 restaurant up the sky tower was 1st class....I had the chicken

Not that unusual to end up in a group filtering. 3 bikes at my work and about 8 up the street. 25 mins each way.

[eldog]

spent last weekend in the jungle. Traffic has got much slower up there from even 5yrs ago.I had the chicken

yes traffic is more and quality of driving worse.

much better when school and uni are off and betterer still when everyone is off on holiday.

you had the chicken with the self saucing red stuff?

[eldog]

Auckland traffic - think of it as a giant group ride, just everyone is going someplace else.

[jasonu]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=11766971

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[Moi]

What traffic?

Went from near Eden Park to Penrose / Mt Wellington early this afternoon. Nice easy drive, no issues, traffic flowed nicely along Urban Route 9 - Balmoral, Greenlane West - and Gt South Rd. Easy peasy... and then back through Onehunga...

So what are you all getting your knickers in a knot about?

This is traffic:

[Swoop]

I think I remember reading somewhere that Auckland Unis accounted for 20k vehicle trips per day in and out of the city...

Sounds about right. Notice the ease in traffic congestion when the holidays are on?

Cycling will NOT ever be the saviour of road congestion in Auckland or anywhere else in NZ.

Absolutely.
It is just one string in the bow, however, of fixes that are needed to get a solution.

[Voltaire]

Queenstown Traffic:

I was there for a couple of days on the way to the Burt Munro and its awful. Plus the locals are too ignorant to let anyone out of a side street. At least they are building a two lane bridge out of there to replace the rather quaint tarred wooden plank one.

Personally I can't see the attraction for the place. Been there twice in the last few years and its all tacky shops and tourists.

[Laava]

Queenstown Traffic:

I was there for a couple of days on the way to the Burt Munro and its awful. Plus the locals are too ignorant to let anyone out of a side street. At least they are building a two lane bridge out of there to replace the rather quaint tarred wooden plank one.

Personally I can't see the attraction for the place. Been there twice in the last few years and its all tacky shops and tourists.

It's like a big paihia without the predatory local streetlife.

[swbarnett]

Queenstown Traffic:

I was there for a couple of days on the way to the Burt Munro and its awful. Plus the locals are too ignorant to let anyone out of a side street. At least they are building a two lane bridge out of there to replace the rather quaint tarred wooden plank one.

Personally I can't see the attraction for the place. Been there twice in the last few years and its all tacky shops and tourists.

I totally agree. We were down there in March and, quite frankly, the only reason to go there was as a starting point to fly in to. The traffic was worse than Auckland. The only saving grace is that it's over a much smaller area.

[Moi]

... Notice the ease in traffic congestion when the holidays are on? ...

If you live near to a primary or intermediate school, before and after school the traffic is chaotic...

it would be so much better if kids walked to their local school rather than being driven.

[jafagsx250]

Would a congestion charge like London and a toll on using the motorways with biked exempted from the congestion charge of course help solve the crap traffic? Provided the money was used for upgrading the trains that would help. I haven't read anything about it so could be wrong.

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