Median barier for Kapiti coast

[NordieBoy]

How many accidents do they have there?

Here in Nelson we have the Appleby Straight...

"The crash rate for the Appleby straight was 37.4 reported injury accidents per 100 million kilometres (the standard for measuring crashes), compared with 13.1 for Paekakariki, 12.2 for the State Highway 2 Upper Hutt bypass, and 21.9 for State Highway 58 Haywards Hill.

Mr Barclay said the different figures reflected a tendency for risk to drop with higher volumes of traffic. About 8000 vehicles a day use the Appleby road, where about 21,000 use the Paekakariki highway."

So do you know what they are going to do about it?

Not a hell of a lot.

Talk mainly.

[jimbo600]

I've just read (On Telecom wap news) that Transit are going to install a wire rope barrier on the section of highway up the Kapiti coast where everyone keeps having head on's.

Transit admit that if an accident occurs it "could add to traffic delays and create more problems than it solves but they will go ahead with the barrier".

If an accident occurs it will bring traffic to a standstill for hours, ambulances won't be able to get to the crash site until traffic in the opposite direction is stopped and the road cleared so that ambulances can travel up the wrong side of the road.

It will be total chaos and bring the kapiti coast to it's knees as there will be no way round it.

What happens if you cross the centre line before the demo wire barrier and therefore can't get back to your own side?

Crazy. You bet.

[sedge]

How many accidents do they have there?

Here in Nelson we have the Appleby Straight...

"The crash rate for the Appleby straight was 37.4 reported injury accidents per 100 million kilometres (the standard for measuring crashes), compared with 13.1 for Paekakariki, 12.2 for the State Highway 2 Upper Hutt bypass, and 21.9 for State Highway 58 Haywards Hill.

Talk mainly.

I think there are two issues here, not just about the number of accidents per km, but the common issue of accidents blocking the road stopping the commercial traffic and 21000 angry people getting home at night.

Sedge.

[scumdog]

Why the eff can't people just drive/ride properly? one of lifes unsolved mysteries, that people KNOW the consequence of bad driving - and still drive badly

[Lou Girardin]

There's been 18 posts on this so far. How many emails have been sent to the various Ministers/opposition spokespeople about the danger of these barriers?
Venting is good folks, but let the morons in charge know of your displeasure. Threaten them with legal action for criminal nuisance in the event of injury/deaths caused to us by these barriers. They've had plenty of warnings that they've ignored.
If you can post here you can send an email too.