Everytime I get to raumati straight i look at the end of those barriers and think "no wind, noooo wind".... big steel starting scary things!
Nothing. You can't blame the road.
The speed limit should be reduced to 80kmh.
Warning signs should be more prominent.
A braided wire median barrier is a good idea.
A median barrier is a good idea but not braided wire.
More fixed speed cameras should be installed.
Build Transmission Gully -- urgently!
Better public transport from the Coast to the City would help.
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Everytime I get to raumati straight i look at the end of those barriers and think "no wind, noooo wind".... big steel starting scary things!
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There was some concern when they started using the "cheese cutter" fencing on the Southern Motorway that it wouldn't stop trucks going through it, just take out their front wheel axles!
I don't know about any official studies into it, but I recall that a truck did test the cheese cutter fencing fairly early on in the piece, and it did the job, but the bit of motorway that it's on has a 3-4 metre wide grass strip between the opposing traffic flows with the fence in the middle. It's going to be an entirely different story on SH1 north of Wellington though.
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there have been a number of cases were cars and other light vehicles have gone over into the opposing lanes, both on the northern and southern parts of the motorway that are "protected" with wire rope(chesse cutter fence)
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The FEMA report I posted the link to previously mentions that although the wire rope is the most lethal to motorcyclists, it is the CHEAPEST method of barrier.
No prizes for guessing why Transit will go with that one, is there?
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
Loud and Uncouth
Still got me stumped why the word 'dangerous' and 'killer' is applied to this section of road, it's no different to a lot of SH1 around here, it's just you guys have more people using that section of road, ergo more people that are shit drivers, ergo more crashes.
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You got it right there SD. It's not dangerous at all. This is a media concoction. Usual sensationalism.Originally Posted by scumdog
Still got me stumped why the word 'dangerous' and 'killer' is applied to this section of road, it's no different to a lot of SH1 around here, it's just you guys have more people using that section of road, ergo more people that are shit drivers, ergo more crashes.
Yes, the road requires more than your average amount of attention. But as the main road out of Welly it does have a lot of traffic.
We just need better drivers.
Or maybe some fake HP cars parked every 3 kilometres at each breakdown stop, like scarecrows. That might wake some of these dozy buggers up.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
Easy Biker
The other thing to ponder is that at least the road was built for the 1940 centenary. Imagine the same hopeless clowns that can't stay on their side of the road all having to drive over Paekak hill as was once the case.
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That bit of road always attracts my attention on the news, as two mates were killed on a motorcycle by Pukerua Bay about 15-20 years ago now, two up on a GPZ750, crashed on gravel and run over by a vehicle heading the other way.
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A Motor Torpedo Boat !I've riden a MTB from Porirua to Pukerua Bay and back as well as driving over that stretch and except for the narrow bit at Pukerua the road seemed fine to me, obviously the drivers that caused the crashes in that area weren't fine though!
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Well it would be a bit narrow at Pukerua!
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