Yep, it'll be chock-a-block in no time
High miles, engine knock, rusty chrome, worn pegs...
Brakes as new
Maybe. It's much further than SH1, plus who knows how clogged the 2-lane parts of the southwestern will become now the tunnel is open.
If you are travelling from outside Auckland, don't assume it will be quicker and check Google maps before you reach the junctions.
We just did a half hour round trip from home (Onehunga) to the Patiki Rd junction. The tunnel was fine, but there are new 80 km/h zones which no doubt will raise lots if revenue in the next few weeks.
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The irony is that by the time these 'new improvements' are made to ease congestion and make driving in Auckland a better experience, there is need for more 'new improvements' to ease congestion and make driving in Auckland a better experience.
''driving in Auckland a better experience''
The 80Kph thing has been raising revenue, around there, for a long time now. Cars clogging up the tunnel will mean that they are not clogging up SH1. Lots of options for the tunnel. Upper Harbour Drive to SH16, means you avoid the harbour bridge. I suspect and hope that there will be lots of benefits for all motorway users. Time will tell though. WOT NO TOLL
They now have an 80 limit from the south end of the tunnels to somewhere around Onehunga. I expect most of them will go back to 100 in time, but watch the variable limits in the tunnels.
One plus for me is it will be much quicker to get out west for a ride at the weekends.
That's the truth of it. The suburb I grew up in in CHCH had plans for a northern route - several times - this I remember over 40 years back. Houses were even purchased a couple blocks away at one stage. I believe there is now money budgeted for it in a few years - massive amounts of money (and that won;t be enough).
If that shit was pushed through 40 years ago ...
Aucklands fucked - expansion with no concern for the future.
Wellington - where the F is that Transmission Gully route? Just do it before they have a Kaikoura like rumble that totally isolates the capital of NZ.
Nah, cars is the reason. Why any able-bodied person would willingly commute regularly in an otherwise empty four-wheeled prison is beyond me.
I say stop any and all arterial road development and let Auckland clog to the point where the ONLY way to get anywhere is by motorcycle or bicycle. Only then will we see large numbers of drivers finding the alternative they should have before billions of our dollars were wasted simply delaying the inevitable.
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The majority of joe public is never going to motorcycle or cycle much, just not practical for them. And AT are doing their level best to clog up Auckland with unnecessarily overzealous traffic management already, who knows maybe to force Wellington into doing something.
Instead they keep building roads... probably because public transport will have to be even more heavily subsidised than it already is now to work, which doesn't fit with the neo-liberal ethos.
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