Auckland NW motorway maaadnessss

[aff-man]

Does anyone know exactly what happened i missed the news yesterday and before that the information was sketchy at best???

[Blakamin]

Does anyone know exactly what happened i missed the news yesterday and before that the information was sketchy at best???

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3087617a10,00.html
fuckin sad

[Posh Tourer :P]

Two crosses were up already yesterday - who does that? is it government or a private thing....what's your thoughts on them.

Strange idea really......Dont seem to make sense any more, as there are so many of them, and so many from a long time ago. Perhaps at first they had an impact on drivers, but not any more...

[Hitcher]

Roadside crosses!!! [Hobbyhorse rears and strains at its leash]

Don't get me started! It's not pretty...

[Jess]

i think roadside crosses, if put there as memorials by the families/friends, are appropriate. it marks a very heavily weighted place, emotionally, for them. remembering where it happened may help some people to remember the person who died (anyone who was there that day will not forget exactly where it happened now, will they) and also perhaps wear the fact into their lives, each time they pass the crosses, and thus help them come to terms with it.


thats my opinion anyhow.

[Hitcher]

[Hobbyhorse breaks leash]

Roadside crosses are one of those recent societal indulgences that fall into the same category as cellphones, personalised plates, diesel-belching SUVs, and "baby on board" stickers. They're just self-indulgent twaddle on the part of surviving relatives.

Imagine if it was customary to erect a cross at the site anybody died for any reason. Aunt Ethel croaks in the La-z-boy recliner in your lounge. Next thing you can't use it anymore because it's got a cross in it. Hospitals would have to build whole new wings because of the crosses littering beds and operating theatres. Bugger being an ambulance company! Golf courses and bowling greens would have a whole new crop of hazards in the form of white crosses erected in memory of members who popped their clogs mid match.

Roadside crosses also assume that everybody who dies on roads is a Christian... Or is a white cross now merely a symbol of death?

Aren't there enough distractions to drivers anyway without more visual clutter? And why on the side of the road? And why erect a cross at the site of the accident if a person dies in the ambulance or in hospital?

And who puts them up? Is there some sort of nationwide franchise called "Crosses R Us"?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

[Madmax]

mabey we should burn them then
sounds like good sick fun

[magnum]

Yeah Its terrible Ruth...

whos this ruth character????

[Madmax]

and if we do burn the crosses
the bloody big one on Mt Roskill
is mine
bloody crosses get them all

[Madmax]

Ban on motorway white crosses provokes anger

11.11.2004
1.00pm
A row is brewing over Transit New Zealand's decision to take down white crosses on motorway fatality sites around the country.

Transit New Zealand said today it was not safe for people to stop on the side of motorways to erect or maintain crosses, but Victim Support said the families of people killed on the motorways were being "revictimised".

burn them all