NZ roads - do they need better signposts?

[NordieBoy]

It's all well and good for you fellas to sit behind your PCs and tell 'dumb foreigners' to ride/drive to the conditions - how many of you swear under your breath at 'dumb foreigners' holding you up by driving 30km/h below the speed limit on the same open roads wondering why they have to plod along so 'bloody slowly' and wishing that they'd get a grip and speed up. Maybe they're just taking it slowly because they don't know their way around and don't want to go flying into an unmarked tight corner.

Um....

We're on motorbikes...

We just pass them...

[Posh Tourer :P]

not on the best tight twisty roads we dont..... Until we can see a little way ahead...

[Motu]

Don't worry - when I'm in my Pajero it's payback time!!

[DEATH_INC.]

I think I know of one corner just out of clevedon that could do with the sign moving to where you can see it before you are actually half way around it and in the poo......

[vifferman]

I do slow down if there are other vehicles around but they put all this grit/gravel down and someone has to take the responsability to sweep it off the road.
In 16cm wide strips

The sad thing is, part of the reason that they leave the gravel there for so long has to do with utilising traffic to roller it into the tar, rather than doing it with their multi-wheeled roller thingos.

Tarsnakes - let's start another sub-thread about those vicious slippery tarsnakes. I'm almost getting used to the way the tyres slip about on those in the wet. And dry.

[El Dopa]

Ask any tourist about Auckland road signs in particular, totally incomprehensible to anyone who doesn't live here.
Now that Transfund has merged with the Land Transport SAFETY Authority, will we see an improvement in SAFETY practices on our roading network?

I actually found most of the roading round town to be pretty good here when I first arrived. There's decent wide roads because you don't have to follow a medieval street layout, which means cars can park and people can still get by, plus there are a lot of dedicated 'right turn' filters, so people turning right don't hold up those behind going straight on.

The signs here were mostly fine, once I worked out that the motorway exits were named and not numbered (which was very handy in the UK).

I can't say as its been an issue unless I'm right out in the wops somewhere, where the signs at intersections direct me between two places I've never heard of.....

[bikerboy]

The problem with road signage here, is there are too many strange things to sign.

Several needed signs on my last ride would have been:

Caution idiots yaking in utes in middle of road after blind unbanked severe corner.

Constant cow/sheep shit all over road after tight corners and steep hills.

Road works abandoned after starting.

Cheap ass road repairs to dangerous curves.

Large section of road removed for lane widening to be completed early 2010 or not.

Caution 30km limit due to badly designed and maintained road built in 1910 for horse and buggy.

Temporary 30kph limit on perfectly sealed straight section of ten lane motorway because we can't be bothered to remove the twenty year old signs.

[wari]

The problem with road signage here, is there are too many strange things to sign.

Several needed signs on my last ride would have been:

Caution idiots yaking in utes in middle of road after blind unbanked severe corner.

Constant cow/sheep shit all over road after tight corners and steep hills.

Road works abandoned after starting.

Cheap ass road repairs to dangerous curves.

Large section of road removed for lane widening to be completed early 2010 or not.

Caution 30km limit due to badly designed and maintained road built in 1910 for horse and buggy.

Temporary 30kph limit on perfectly sealed straight section of ten lane motorway because we can't be bothered to remove the twenty year old signs.

THose signs are TOo wordy ...

tRy con densin Them a bit ...

I prefer summerys to long versoins anyhow :spudbooge

GOod effot tho ... eh little fella , he did alright ...

[moko]

I didnt have any trouble finding my way about when I was in N.Z,no better or worse than here I`d say.A bit down the road from me you approach a little place called Newton Ferrers and there`s a sign to Noss Mayo showing it`s down the right fork,and another one below it showing to go down the left!!Both are right,just that one goes through Newton,the other around it but god knows what the tourists make of it.What I did find odd was under signs in some of the smaller towns were signs saying what the local Freemason`s lodge was called,er it`s supposed to be a "secret society",here at least.