Coromandel Loop

[Blackbird]

Here's a photo taken today of the Kopu Hikuai road. It will be the long loop for the foreseeable future!
Cheers,
Geoff

[F5 Dave]

You might want to favour the outside line quite a bit.

[Blackbird]

You might want to favour the outside line quite a bit.

Maybe use your GasGas on any future visit 😂. We planned to use that road to get to a classic car event in 2 weeks. Guess it will be the longer way round now!

[Reckless]

Its got worse since then. This 18hrs ago.

We went through Thursday arvo to Pauanui its was closed by Saturday.
The day we chose to cut the weekend short and took the long loop home to Auckland.

[george formby]

Hate to say it but welcome to the club. Since the Mangamukas dissolved in a similar fashion it's been a PITA up here. SH10 is getting hammered and some poor folks commutes are horrendous.
Businesses are suffering massively, too.

They reckon it's gonna cost $100 million to fix.. Gonna be awhile before the Far North's favourite bit of hoonery reopens.

[Blackbird]

Hate to say it but welcome to the club. Since the Mangamukas dissolved in a similar fashion it's been a PITA up here. SH10 is getting hammered and some poor folks commutes are horrendous.
Businesses are suffering massively, too.

They reckon it's gonna cost $100 million to fix.. Gonna be awhile before the Far North's favourite bit of hoonery reopens.

East coast holiday home owners and extra travel times are at the bottom of the importance list. Permanent east coast residents needing to get to Thames for important appointments are going to be seriously inconvenienced. Like your experience up north, it's the commercial side which will really get hit and the roads will take a hammering. Not designed for HGV's or the increased volume come to that.

[pritch]

Here's a photo taken today of the Kopu Hikuai road. It will be the long loop for the foreseeable future!
Cheers,
Geoff

Bloody potholes!

[george formby]

it's the commercial side which will really get hit and the roads will take a hammering. Not designed for HGV's or the increased volume come to that.

A mate recently mentioned that some corners on SH10 are getting very sketchy for bikes due to trucks and traffic damaging the road and pushing up "waves" of tarmac. No doubt with the current monsoon potholes will be breaking out like a bad case of smallpox.

Went down to Whangas yesterday, twice, the cooncil had 3 trucks and 2 utes with warning signs literally cruising along SH1 filling up potholes as they appeared. They were using the high tech shovel, shovel, stomp, stomp hot mix patch.

Summit else to factor in on a ride.

[Reckless]

Karangahake Gorge one lane.
4.5 hours to Coromandel.
Not sure why they are saying you can't go up 25 at Kopu as I cant see any closures atm.
But they have you going the long way via Karangahake Gorge still.
NZTA has a trip planner

[Blackbird]

Karangahake Gorge one lane.
4.5 hours to Coromandel.
Not sure why they are saying you can't go up 25 at Kopu as I cant see any closures atm.
But they have you going the long way via Karangahake Gorge still.
NZTA has a trip planner

The situation is ever-changing at present and will continue to do so for several days even when the rain has stopped. The "official" websites can't keep up with the rate of slips. Our place is about 3km outside Coro village centre and this area has been cut off from all points of the compass multiple times in the last 48 hours. The road crews are doing a fantastic job but they're always in catch-up mode with slips and downed trees. The best site for updates is the "Coromandel Peninsula Road Status" page on Facebook. It has feedback from people on the road. The Coromandel CFM web page is another good 'un.

[MD]

Its got worse since then. This 18hrs ago.

That'll buff out.

[george formby]

That'll buff out.

Gonna need a few truck loads of bodge, though.

[Reckless]

here you go lads just popped up on facebook

Scott Simpson MP
2 h ·
First opportunity to visit the slip site on SH25A. It’s far bigger than it was yesterday and is still moving. The scale of repair job is going to be enormous. More to come…

Downloaded the Vid but KB wont allow me to upload the MP4

Here is the FB link
https://www.facebook.com/scottsimpso...06349774373273

[george formby]

Birchys next vid?

[neels]

That looks like Kaikoura earthquake level fucked, but built on clay not rocks, and also not SH1.

Hope it doesn't take as long to fix as the dodgy parts of SH65 and SH6 where the road just fell off, that have been making do with single lane and traffic lights.

The best hope is that there are enough rich jafas with holiday homes who'll get in the ears of those making decisions, that extra distance in a v8 range rover doesn't come cheap.