Northern Motorway in chaos.

[Usarka]

btw, having ridden for the first time, isnt that northbound onramp from barrys point road mint when your tyres are nice and warm

[vifferman]

Apparently, the bridge was scheduled for demolition in two months anyway, so they just brought the demolition forward a bit.
The work on the new interchanges is bollix. They've got two lanes going all the way down Onewa Road now, but instead of extending the Transit lane all the way to the motorway, it's for buses only. Waste of time and OUR money, as it does almost nothing to reduce congestion. All for a few buses...

[slopster]

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Yes.
Having been involved with 500lbs going "up in smoke" on Kaipara, I in fact do.

Unfortunately the increased faggotry and PC namby-pambyness in NZ would have a serious amount of involvement in this bloated bureaucratic process nowadays. If a simple and expedient solution like this was even suggested to the retards in power, they would have a coronary.

Forget the OSH poofters and (grossly over-estimated) safety distances.
Forget the CIVU morons who will close a motorway for 5hrs to take a few photo's and measurements.

"Simple and efficient" in NZ has been killed off years ago.

kiapara is a little more suited then auckland city for that sort of carrry on. safety distance is 1000m radius for military pers in the open and that comes from the army not osh

[Swoop]

kiapara is a little more suited then auckland city for that sort of carrry on. safety distance is 1000m radius for military pers in the open and that comes from the army not osh

Precisely the point. I would have called 1200m as the safety radius which would have been the easiest option to stop traffic. The residents would have been another problem, but been easy to move out.
Steel cutting would have been a non-option as simple concrete shear would have sufficed. Let the span drop and then cut the reinforcing steel afterwards.
Done and dusted in minimal time.

[lb99]

Forget the OSH poofters ......

check out the dude using a concrete saw overhead without ear or eye protection at about 21 sec

http://www.3news.co.nz/News/National...4/Default.aspx

[madbikeboy]

Whereabouts are you on Parnell Rd? I work in a restaurant where it starts to flatten out, and even on freezing cold nights, there's still young student girls wandering around in diddley squat.

I like Parnell Rd, always a delightful, ever-changing view

I'm on near Nori and Mint. Mmm, student babes... Seriously, great place to work. You're not the guy at Movenpick?

[xwhatsit]

I'm on near Nori and Mint. Mmm, student babes... Seriously, great place to work. You're not the guy at Movenpick?

Nup -- that would be Roman, the guy with the black ZXR250? Nice guy.

My bike's between the Strawberry Alarmclock and Shahi. Work nights.

Even the waitresses at Nori aren't too bad

[madbikeboy]

Nup -- that would be Roman, the guy with the black ZXR250? Nice guy.

My bike's between the Strawberry Alarmclock and Shahi. Work nights.

Even the waitresses at Nori aren't too bad

Ahah! you work at the Italian place, right!?! Just across from Subway. Good food there. Shall we form a club - the Parnell Badass Club. Hmm, just doesn't sound cool or streetwise does it...?

[Horse]

Fuggoff, you could fit a bloody Electra Glide through there.

But perhaps not a Kawasaki Concours, which according to reliable instrumentation [1] is wider than an Electra Glide.

[1] A tape measure. Wielded by the Concours owner.