Waioeka Gorge reduced to 80km

[kiwifruit]

Pah. Only halfway to redline in first!!

BLOODY HOON!

[clint640]

The gorge isn't the first road to have dropped to 80kph recently, and nor will it be the last.

Yeah, but most places dropped to 80 lately have been areas with high traffic volumes &/or lots of intersections & driveways. The Waioeka gorge certainly doesn't fit under those criteria.

If Joe Noddy & co are falling off the road trying to do 70km/h round a corner marked as a 35 in the gorge an 80km/h limit ain't gunna save them.

Cheers
Clint

[Big Dave]

Mmmm. This not good thing. One of our best roads reduced to a choice between boredom or loss of licence. I have seen pleecemens on that road but fortunately while halfway round a corner and under the speed limit.
What's that saying? "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". This is too important for men to manage. Surely there are some women up that way who can stop it happening.

Radar detector time. Get your wife to buy it.

[TygerTung]

The people who are crashing are probably not obaying the speed limit anyway.

It's not the straights which you usually crash anyway, only the corners, so maybe they should put some recomended speed signs up?

[Matt Bleck]

Sounds like the local councillors are on to it!

http://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/arti...iid=409&sud=27

edit; It's the farkin Jaffas!

[fergie]

the place is so isolated im sure the coppers will put it on low priorty to police.

[Morcs]

Beautiful stretch of road. Shame the gorge section is less than 30km on the run - then the rest is boring through lowlands all the way to gizzy.

Remember doing that road at new years, at 9am, sun, clear sky with the odd clouds around the hills, and a stretch of road so damn good I wish I lived in opotiki.

[Matt Bleck]

Beautiful stretch of road. Shame the gorge section is less than 30km on the run - then the rest is boring through lowlands all the way to gizzy.

Remember doing that road at new years, at 9am, sun, clear sky with the odd clouds around the hills, and a stretch of road so damn good I wish I lived in opotiki.

From the end of the Opotiki straight to the top of Tarffids Hill is about 58k's I think or are you talking about where it really tightens up at the Matawai end? I don't mind the drive from Matawai on to Gizzy, nice flowing turns, not excatley straight.

[clint640]

It's not the straights which you usually crash anyway, only the corners, so maybe they should put some recomended speed signs up?

The Waioeka Gorge is an absolute forest of recommended speed signs of all shapes & sizes on virtually all the corners. The only thing another sign with an actual limit on it would achieve is to make revenue gathering more lucrative on the few short straights that are the motorist's only opportunity to avoid following a smoky logging truck for 50km.

Cheers
Clint

[Stirts]

Sounds like the local councillors are on to it!

http://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/arti...iid=409&sud=27

I agree with Hemi, I have been through there countless times (in car) and the "dawdlers" are the ones that cause problems, should the police not take this into consideration and put SOME focus on "dawdlers" and not just the speeders....oh wait sorry, silly me, we are talking about the police here.

"they needed to set a limit that catered to a range of drivers, depending on their experience and how well they knew the road"
WTF......Yeah let's set the rules for the lowest common denominator YET AGAIN!

Surely if they can increase the number of passing lanes and slow vehicle bays ...problem solved...or that too simple????

[Kflasher]

For those who have ridden, or plan to go riding through the Waioeka gorge, transit is planning to reduce the speed limit to 80km.

The Waioeka gorge is State Highway 2 between Opotiki and Gisborne. Worth the ride and to double back again just to make sure.

Those who live in gisborne there is an open public meeting at Lawson field building on Monday the 16th July 4 pm to 7pm(?) where the public can have their say.
Transit say it'l add only 3.5 mins to the average punters trip, bah!

A few tintops go too fast around some of the corners and drop off.

Wifey said what about the children in the cars of these dodgy drivers, maybe it'll help save them. Think of the children.

I say thats just Darwinism.

Thats just farken wrong, i played in that gorge whist living in the G-Town.
Great ride on any bike, i would say to anyone to go and have a play.

[limbimtimwim]

It's cheaper to slap up some 80km/h signs than add some passing lanes.

[Clivoris]

Radar detector time. Get your wife to buy it.

Now that's what I call helpful advice. I will tell her that "Big Dave" said it was necessary. If only she stopped spending money on feeding our blardy kids I could get one immediately.

[SPman]

Perhaps some of the dozy twonks should start reading stuff like this

http://www.safespeed.org.uk/speedlimits.html

Speed limits do little to modify the speed of traffic, and should never be used to attempt to modify the speed of traffic. The idea of lowering a speed limit and enforcing it by camera which is so common these days is a case of falling into the "speed limit trap". It's a dangerous mistake because it shifts vital responsibility away from drivers. (click here)

I like the "unrealistically slow" comment about advisory signs - aint that the truth! I think they are all set by what a 1954 Austin A40 can comfortably lurch around ......

[xwhatsit]

Perhaps some of the dozy twonks should start reading stuff like this

http://www.safespeed.org.uk/speedlimits.html


I like the "unrealistically slow" comment about advisory signs - aint that the truth! I think they are all set by what a 1954 Austin A40 can comfortably lurch around ......

As long as they're consistent. That quote from whoever the boss of such-and-such was good -- they need to be set for such a wide variety of vehicles, all you can use them as like a `score' -- the lower the score, the slower you have to go. As long as score 25 corners are consistently marked 25 it's not a problem. You get into trouble when a 50 corner turns out to be actually a 25 corner.