Ruapuna noise complaints

**TygerTung** · 31st August 2006, 12:48

Yeah it gives me the shits how they do it outside ruapuna, they should go back to bloody mcleans island where they arn't bothering the residants outside the racetrack and giving the racetrack a bad name.

And how about the plane noise? There are planes going across all the time and making lots of noise, are they gonna complaign about that too?

**Buddha#81:Me** · 1st September 2006, 23:00

Originally Posted by TygerTung

Yeah it gives me the shits how they do it outside ruapuna, they should go back to bloody mcleans island where they arn't bothering the residants outside the racetrack and giving the racetrack a bad name.

And how about the plane noise? There are planes going across all the time and making lots of noise, are they gonna complaign about that too?

You were probally there with ya looser mates

and if you did ya job properly the planes would be nice and quiet.

**far queue** · 22nd November 2006, 14:53

Here's another report on this in todays press ...

**Deano** · 22nd November 2006, 15:02

Shouldn't she have measured the levels at or in the houses before spouting off that the level at the track is too high ?

Where the evidence ?

**Sketchy_Racer** · 22nd November 2006, 16:31

Thats fucken redicoulos.

I wonder what the dumb shits are thinking when they buy a house near by racetrack!

I would be intersted to see what the SI guys think about this. are the people in the homes just being anal bastards, Or do they have a fair point?

**cooneyr** · 23rd November 2006, 07:30

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

I maintain the same line of argument as I did with Western Springs...

You are entitled to complain if (and only if) you lived there BEFORE the raceway was proposed.

Otherwise you knew what you were buying into and can therefore get stuffed.

Here here. I completely agree but Deano (below) also has a good point.

Originally Posted by Deano

Well basically as soon as the scale and intensity of the activity increases, (especially that significantly) the track loses it's 'existing use rights'.

I can see the residents point. (if this is the case)

In this case there needs to be consultation with the residence before the hours/days/noise are increased. I dont think you loose existing track rights you are just in a weak position if somebody does start whineing. The point of the RMA is that you minimise your impacts. If the raceway wants to extend hours/days/noise then do something to lessen the impact on the neighbours i.e. as Brian d'marge said (below). Transit etc are required to do it with new motorways (now didnt use to have to) and have performace standards to meet.

Originally Posted by Brian d'marge

You can cut the sound levels quite a lot , with careful planting of a shrubbery ( said the Knights thaat goe Ni) and inside this hedging is Sound proofing stuff . polystyrene I think ? Saw it done once ,,cant remember where m but I remember thinking , that was a good idea ,,, I think they used shade cloth to wrap the syrene , so that it couldnt get out ...
They use design to stop sound of motorways reaching residential areas here in Japan ,,,and its very effective

and as for the rubbish , I am sure that some of those ,,,dropkicks who cause it would be on community service ...get the buggers out there to pick the stuff up ,,,, and not over 2000000000 weekends, no make the little S$%^&* work 2 km per day cleared and spick and span including grass cutting etc ...

Stephen

As for the little fu@{er boy racers I'd love to be at the wheel of the artic with a snow blade on the front. Seriously though - I agree if they litter make the shit heads pick it up. Stop wasting time and money on the youth court/family conferance (or whatever it is called) system and slap them with community service. Same applies to the damage they do to the roads - make them pay for it cause it aint cheap to repair.

R

**Tim 39** · 23rd November 2006, 18:36

Originally Posted by RG100!!

Thats fucken redicoulos.

I wonder what the dumb shits are thinking when they buy a house near by racetrack!

I would be intersted to see what the SI guys think about this. are the people in the homes just being anal bastards, Or do they have a fair point?

I second that
this annoys me somewhat, it depends if they were informed about opening up the track. If they had no say and it just happened they may have a point, but still its like building a house in the antarctic and complaining that its cold!!!!

and for the people that have moved there since the track usage was opened up, and are complaigning they (in my opinion) have no grounds for complaint, as they knew what was hapening but moved there anyway

**Fat Tony** · 23rd November 2006, 20:47

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

how many race tracks are there in NZ and why do whinging lefty greeny bitches choose to live next door to them?

If it makes you feel any better, the UKs going the same way. More and more trackdays are now running quiet days so as not to upset the people who bought a house nearby knowing full well that there was a race track next door. "DOH! We didn't think it'd be noisy..."

**TonyB** · 23rd November 2006, 21:18

As has been said waaay above in this thread, many of the residents have a valid point. The track usage increased dramaticaly without consultation. Hopefully the new track in the quarry will go ahead and this will all be a moot point. I wonder though whether some members of the Car Club are ignoring the guide lines/ rules for track usage... read on

At a race meeting a month or two ago, the track was booked until 5pm. There is a sign saying "No entry to the track before 9am", and I believe there are rules about track usage after 5pm. The racing finished up at about 4:30, and the next thing two openwheel racecars start heading out onto the track. Somebody quite rightly stopped them and told them "we hired the track till 5pm- do you think a bunch of bikes would be allowed free track access after a car meeting?!?!" Meanwhile the second car ran up the back of the first car and coolant started spilling everywhere.... was quite amusing- we should have let the silly bugger go out and cook his engine, as it was he wouldn't give up trying to go out until about 5 people started shouting and pointing. So they pushed the thing back into a building, and sometime after 5 both cars went out and started doing laps. No doubt Motorcycling Canterbury would have taken the blame if it was infact against the rules to be on the track after 5pm.

**scumdog** · 23rd November 2006, 22:01

Originally Posted by RG100!!

Thats fucken redicoulos.

I wonder what the dumb shits are thinking when they buy a house near by racetrack!

I would be intersted to see what the SI guys think about this. are the people in the homes just being anal bastards, Or do they have a fair point?

They have a point for some of the easily controlled points (see the post by Tony B above)

But mostly they are the same type of twats that would buy a house by a riverbank because of the nice view - then moan to 'somebody' when the river flooded them out.

**Sketchy_Racer** · 24th November 2006, 08:09

Originally Posted by Tony B

and sometime after 5 both cars went out and started doing laps. No doubt Motorcycling Canterbury would have taken the blame if it was infact against the rules to be on the track after 5pm.

That sucks If The Canterbury MC club had to take the blame for that.

Maybe someone need to police the race track, or invest in some gates with locks to stop such retards gonig out like they own the show.

Could they acctually be done for tresspassing? As they did not hire the track, So had no right being out there?

**TonyB** · 24th November 2006, 16:32

Erm- they would be members of the Canterbury Car Club who own the track. The point I was trying to make is that if there is actually a ban on use of the track after 5pm then they are not obeying this rule.

**Ben_Cro** · 23rd January 2007, 17:36

I have been monitoring this for some time, and its come to the point where i have started a blog site against these wowsers. As i'm a former solo bike pilot, its become very speedway orientated (sorry to all you Road Racers), but you are all entitled to voice your opinion here. The site is www.saveruapuna.blogspot.com. The more Louder, the Prouder

**SDU** · 23rd January 2007, 19:09

Welcome to KB Ben_Cro.
All users & spectators need to be aware & have there say.

Hey I had trouble loading your site, not sure if its my end or the site.