Rodney District Speed Limit Changes from 1 July

**Pixie** · 23rd June 2006, 14:52

Originally Posted by swanny

I have followed in his foot-steps and capatalise on the Testaricardo's and Arse Bandit's in different areas of business.

What use are they,other than targets for exploitation?

**Edbear** · 23rd June 2006, 16:45

Originally Posted by outlawtorn

I thought Rodney district was supposed to be filled with old people (Orewa) and rich snots (Gulf Harbour)?

Hey! Who you callin' old?!

**Maha** · 23rd June 2006, 17:56

Originally Posted by swanny

Because people get frustrated in that section of road as it is hilly and twisty. When a passing lane finally comes up everyone in the slow lane speeds up and other drivers try to over take in the passing lane.

One gets passed, then another, then another, then theres no passing lane left, so they continue on crossing the line and usually end up having a head on.

We can't blame speed and we can't blame the Government, we can only blame ourselves.

What you say about the passing lanes happens at all passing lanes. The accidents that i spoke about happened on a corner at the northern end where most of the smashes happen, two killed when they crossed the center line, the other happened on a straight, van and a truck. Some dick suggested the cause of accidents in the dome are due to lack of radio coverage, people retuning thier radio's?......go figure

**SwanTiger** · 23rd June 2006, 18:00

Haha maybe, I'm not an expert or knowledgable individual so consider what I say to be bullshit.

Radio's? Fuck you are showing your age... its Cell phone coverage!

Originally Posted by maha man

What you say about the passing lanes happens at all passing lanes. The accidents that i spoke about happened on a corner at the northern end where most of the smashes happen, two killed when they crossed the center line, the other happened on a straight, van and a truck. Some dick suggested the cause of accidents in the dome are due to lack of radio coverage, people retuning thier radio's?......go figure

**Maha** · 23rd June 2006, 18:05

Originally Posted by swanny

Haha maybe, I'm not an expert or knowledgable individual so consider what I say to be bullshit.

Radio's? Fuck you are showing your age... its Cell phone coverage!

Not me you cock........

The guy who said that was about 800 yrs old.....he remembers the wireless...

Come to think of it........so do i ........

You're right.....i am old.....40 something next month....

**SwanTiger** · 23rd June 2006, 18:13

Your 800 year old friend has a point there.

I've established the "passing" opinion based on the vehicles I've driven through there. If I'm in the FTO then people back off, if I'm in the Van people sit on my arse and try to overtake, even though its a 3000cc Turbo Deisel that will cruise at 140 - 150.

"Big, looks slow, must overtake!"

Originally Posted by maha man

Not me you cock........

The guy who said that was about 800 yrs old.....he remembers the wireless...

Come to think of it........so do i ........

You're right.....i am old.....40 something next month....

**Ixion** · 23rd June 2006, 18:17

Originally Posted by maha man

Not me you cock........

The guy who said that was about 800 yrs old.....he remembers the wireless...

Come to think of it........so do i ........

You're right.....i am old.....40 something next month....

Wireless. Hell, I remember crystal sets!

**oldrider** · 23rd June 2006, 19:53

Hey guy's that was fun! lol lol lol.
You made my day, I have just come home from a days business in Timaru and for some unknown reason I was feeling really shitty.
All your posts about Rodney have cheered me up and they were informative as well, thank you all.
You don't have to be Jaffas to behave like that on the passing lanes though!
This morning going to Timaru we caught up to a wee truck doing about 95kph so sat behind and waited for the passing lane just up the road.
As we approached the passing bay, speed of wee truck increases (automatic reaction down here) so we eventually pass him at 130kph and at the end of the passing bay he goes back down to his 95kph??? ( we were the only two vehicles on the road too)
He is not alone, they all do that down here, all the time, you don't have to be a Jaffa to act like a half wit, just an ordinary average kiwi it seems.
Thanks again for cheering me up and telling me where Rodney is.

Cheers John.

**Ixion** · 23rd June 2006, 22:15

But , do you remember crystal sets and tickling the whisker? All else is irrelevant

**James Deuce** · 23rd June 2006, 22:16

I had a crystal set once. My Grandad helped me make it and then kept it the miserable bastard.

**Ixion** · 23rd June 2006, 22:19

Uh, we're not related are we? And your grandfather, he's been dead a good while? Just wnat to be sure here.

**James Deuce** · 23rd June 2006, 22:30

Very dead. Quite a long time. His dad raced speedway, and the only photo I've seen of them together, they looked like Steptoe and Son.

**Motu** · 23rd June 2006, 22:40

My crystal set was in a yellow soap dish.You could often hear morse code too - that was the spies talking to each other,I would of liked to listen in to what was going down,but it was just so complicated.....

**Skyryder** · 23rd June 2006, 23:21

Originally Posted by oldrider

I just have to ask, where in the hell is Rodney? I have been racking my brains and trying to locate the area on the road map.
Is it a Borough, electorate or what.

Cheers John.

He's been kicked off dancing with the stars and now he's back in Parliment blaming the Minister of Energy for all the power failures. Doesn't he know that Meridian has a CEO who gets paid for doing what the Minister use to do i.e. take responsibility.

Just couldn't resist that one Oldrider............now where's my spade for digging the trench.

Skyryder

**Maha** · 24th June 2006, 08:57

Originally Posted by oldrider

Hey guy's that was fun! lol lol lol.
You made my day, I have just come home from a days business in Timaru and for some unknown reason I was feeling really shitty.
All your posts about Rodney have cheered me up and they were informative as well, thank you all.
You don't have to be Jaffas to behave like that on the passing lanes though!
This morning going to Timaru we caught up to a wee truck doing about 95kph so sat behind and waited for the passing lane just up the road.
As we approached the passing bay, speed of wee truck increases (automatic reaction down here) so we eventually pass him at 130kph and at the end of the passing bay he goes back down to his 95kph??? ( we were the only two vehicles on the road too)
He is not alone, they all do that down here, all the time, you don't have to be a Jaffa to act like a half wit, just an ordinary average kiwi it seems.
Thanks again for cheering me up and telling me where Rodney is.

Cheers John.

Ya know John, Jafa has morphed into SOAP's for us up here in Rodney, we get alot of the SOAP's up here during long weekends and even normal weekends. Some of the driving skill's they bring up from AKL are quite comical, you can always pick em'....'' thats gotta be a SOAP''....

BTW .....SOAP = Stressed Out Auckland Pricks.......

ps: does not include bike riders .........