Now lifestylers on our best roads

[Zookey]

Came home from the beach ta find my son in hospital with a smashed ankle,had been out on our favoured track when he hit the loose shingle on the inside of a tight fast bend.Some bloody townie has built a new house ,installed the Alapacas,but has the steep shingle drive exiting mid bend,which he spreads across the road every time he leaves,one less SUV in the garage would pay for tarseal; as luck would have it the Firestorm has only a broken blinker and the ugly plate bracket, but my chap has a 3 month stint in the lazy boy

[hXc]

Oh shit that sucks. Hope he heals up good an proper. PS2/X-box with dozens of motorbike games is it?

[WINJA]

ive had this a few times , the council should crack down on these fuckers , drives on bends should be sealed , and no drives should be allowed on blind corners , why dont the cops stop and have a chat to them , its hard to see the diference between putting that hazzard on the road or a boy racer putting diesel on the road, if you want i can take a dump at their letterbox one night

[Motu]

Strange - in a 100km radius of Auckland they put up 500mtrs of concrete drive,going...no where! Seems like you put in $5000 of drive before you start building....like,you wouldn't want the X5 getting dirty would you?

[Sniper]

Bugger to hear mate, hope your boy heals quick. I know what you maean though, Farkin idiots dropping shit all over our roads

[Karma]

I'd send them a letter demanding compensation... they might not pay up, but at least they'll do something about the shit on the road.

[Mental Trousers]

I'd send them a letter demanding compensation... they might not pay up, but at least they'll do something about the shit on the road.

Mate, they drive SUV's. You'll be lucky if you can convince them they don't actually own the road between their place and the closest private school.

[Gremlin]

Mate, they drive SUV's. You'll be lucky if you can convince them they don't actually own the road between their place and the closest private school.

If they don't play ball, dig a big ditch across their driveway, called it a "gravel trap" to stop gravel going onto the road... and since its an suv, it should get across the 0.5m deep, 0.5m wide ditch fine

[Unit:Me]

Check with the local council who issued the permit. With every permit application the access to the property has to be shown, and this should be part of the approval process. If they have put it in the wrong place, they will have to rectify the matter at their own expense. With building consents these days the councils are getting very fussy, so you may have some weight on your side if it's in the wrong place. Otherwise just bring the matter to the attention of the council, and make a fuss, they hate any complaints and if the completion certificate hasnt been issued yet then they will hold that up if there is a problem with any of the works done. I'm assuming this is a new building that has recently gone in. Keep us posted if you have any developments

[sunhuntin]

theyve sealed for no good reason part of the hill going into or out of turakina [think its before] going south from wangas theyve coned off part of the passing lane, with very little warning if youre barrelling around the bottom corner. when they finally finish, itll be loose stones for months.

since theyve finished the santoft passing lane, they are finding other things to disrupt traffic flow, including miles of 30km heading into marton from the turakina turnoff.


why is it they dont clear up the stones??

[Pixie]

If the road is a state highway,under Transit's control,there are regulations covering access.
Apparently even concrete drives between the property line and the road are not acceptable.The drive must be tarseal.
My neighbour had to seal his access and the plans for concrete pavement were rejected.

[Beemer]

Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Would it have made any difference if it had been gravel that had been spread on the road by a car going wide on a corner? Sorry if he is hurt and the bike is damaged but if he hit loose shingle on the inside of a "tight, fast bend" then perhaps he was going too fast for the conditions.

If it's your "favoured track" then you both obviously ride it regularly. Did the house, alpacas, steep shingle driveway, etc. appear suddenly overnight? No, I bet you have been aware of them for bloody months. So stop whinging and get used to something called urban sprawl.

Country roads ALL have their hazards and shingle spread from driveways is just one of them. Ride to the conditions and you won't have a problem.

You must be really pissed off that someone sold off part of your private race track to a damned lifestyler. Did you ever stop to think that perhaps he's pissed off with you guys using it as a race track and deliberately lets his shingle spread onto that corner?

[Holy Roller]

I find diesel spills worse, After coming to grief a few times I'm a bit more careful now. Never too pleasant when one comes off though, always a learning curve whoever is at fault. Hope the young fella heals fast.

[Lou Girardin]

Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Would it have made any difference if it had been gravel that had been spread on the road by a car going wide on a corner? Sorry if he is hurt and the bike is damaged but if he hit loose shingle on the inside of a "tight, fast bend" then perhaps he was going too fast for the conditions.

The difference is that the former is a random event, what is being discussed here is an ongoing problem.
There is actually a law covering the dropping of offensive matter on a road, but I doubt it includes gravel.
Perhaps a group of people with slingshots could redistribute the owners gravel back onto his property, preferably with glass breaking velocity.

[Ixion]

Tch. Disgusting. I blame the track marshals, m'self. Why didn't they put out flags to warn the riders about gravel on the track ?