Brakes Locking Up

**F5 Dave** · 31st August 2019, 18:38

That's because road crews have cried Wolf so many times people dont believe it

**FJRider** · 31st August 2019, 19:05

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

That's because road crews have cried Wolf so many times people dont believe it

If "People" can't SEE an issue ... they ignore the warning (signs). They crash and "It wasn't MY fault, they didn't say what the problem was" ...

The road crews have their rules. VERY strict guidelines they have to follow. Ignore those warnings at your peril.

BUT ... don't do the "I didn't know/see what the issue was".

**F5 Dave** · 31st August 2019, 20:24

Ahh Fuck Off!

Up my winedy street they always put work signs on the worst corners so you have to steer around them into incoming traffic. Its fucking dangerous for no reason. I wish they would all go to hell.

With jesus. Who likes it there.

**Stylo** · 31st August 2019, 20:40

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Ahh Fuck Off!

Up my winedy street they always put work signs on the worst corners so you have to steer around them into incoming traffic. Its fucking dangerous for no reason. I wish they would all go to hell.

With jesus. Who likes it there.

The path you take up the winedy street is best taken one step at a time , I guess.

Thanks for that. Jesus loves you F5.

**FJRider** · 31st August 2019, 20:53

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

... Up my winedy street they always put work signs on the worst corners so you have to steer around them into incoming traffic. Its fucking dangerous for no reason. I wish they would all go to hell.

I once had a woman drive into the front of my car in a roadworks area ... because HER side of the road was blocked. Wait until the traffic goes past. Much safer ...

**pritch** · 1st September 2019, 11:14

Originally Posted by Blackbird

You have to read it several times in places to get what he's driving at

I'm glad you thought that. 'Cause I definitely had to.

**Scuba_Steve** · 1st September 2019, 18:28

Originally Posted by Autech

I would love to know if the money we are putting in to our roads is being spent efficiently and the people putting it down are actually skilled enough to do so. Far too many roads end up worse off after a crew has been through "fixing" it.
Be interesting to see what a German engineer would make of our efforts

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I can help with that

Q.I would love to know if the money we are putting in to our roads is being spent efficiently
A. No! Double so when the NZTA is involved

Q. the people putting it down are actually skilled enough to do so
A. No (well depending on whose metric of "skilled" you use)

**Autech** · 2nd September 2019, 08:19

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

I can help with that

Q.I would love to know if the money we are putting in to our roads is being spent efficiently
A. No! Double so when the NZTA is involved

Q. the people putting it down are actually skilled enough to do so
A. No (well depending on whose metric of "skilled" you use)

Time to rise up against the gummant I think.
Too many taxes being spent poorly.

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**jellywrestler** · 2nd September 2019, 09:58

Originally Posted by rastuscat

It's not possible, with the current funding model, to keep all roads at a coefficient of friction at 0.7 or greater all the time.

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so they've only got a 70% target rate at the best of times, that's a bit behind the eight ball is it not?

**jellywrestler** · 2nd September 2019, 10:02

Originally Posted by Subike

Oh the bikes didn't go down, the stones flew up and chipped the paintwork. Loose gravel on the road is not something that will stay put on the road, it likes to fly from tyres into the air, Have you never lost a windscreen or had a stone flung up at you when following a car? It so happened that this section of unswept road was outside a club rooms. Stone chips are not nice, especially when because, somebody did not get the Massy Ferguson with a mechanical broom off the work truck and do their contracted job.

and all these people got paid out, I call absolute bullshit, how did they prove it was that gravel and that gravel alone, the councils insurance would have laughed at them, and laughed fucking loudly too.

**rastuscat** · 2nd September 2019, 12:06

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

so they've only got a 70% target rate at the best of times, that's a bit behind the eight ball is it not?

I'm talking a coefficient of friction. If the coefficient of friction is too high we'd be on here bitching about excessive tyre wear. 0.7 is actually quite good.

**eldog** · 2nd September 2019, 14:22

Originally Posted by FJRider

I once had a woman drive into the front of my car in a roadworks area ... because HER side of the road was blocked. Wait until the traffic goes past. Much safer ...

Your sure it wasn't Cas♤♡◇☆ ¿

It wasn't outside a school crossing?

Couldn't resist the temptation.

**Autech** · 2nd September 2019, 14:28

Originally Posted by eldog

Your sure it wasn't Cas♤♡◇☆ ¿

It wasn't outside a school crossing?

Couldn't resist the temptation.

No doubt under pressure to keep up with the other cars going through the road works

**pritch** · 2nd September 2019, 16:01

Originally Posted by Autech

No doubt under pressure to keep up with the other cars going through the road works

Chortle. You do see that all the time though, the idea that if their side of the road is blocked they stop until the way is clear just doesn't occur to them. If their lane is blocked they use yours.