Sudden increase in tar snakes

[disenfranchised]

Has anyone else noticed a large increase in the number of tar snakes on the road in the last couple of weeks.

It might just where I travel, but along Gt North Rd, at the sections through the Avondale shops, and from western springs up to the Grey Lynn shops there's a whole lot of new tar lines all over the road.

When they were first laid, they were kinda yellow coloured...I guess they had sand over the top of them or something.
It also seemed like you could see a really obvious groove carved in the road under where they were...as if they'd gouged the road and filled it in...not sure why they'd do that, I don't recall there being any large cracks there before.

There's one that almost took me out too....on the sweeping downhill left bend as you leave the Grey Lynn shops. It's right in the middle of the lane
Yesterday evening, as I rode home....perfectly fine weather, but hitting the tar made everything go horribly sideways..I guess it was warm and soft

[dino3310]

they certainly give you a fright when they catch you unawares

[davebullet]

Isn't it odd how Transit and the authorities do more and more to make things safe for car drivers, but forget about 2 wheeled vehicles?

They wonder why there is a sudden increase in motorcyclist deaths and serious injuries and I presume they attribute it to reckless riding and the increase in motorcyclists on the road....

I'd love to see a paper from the authorities listing the things to change to make motorcycling safer on the roads... until one of them or their beloved happens to be a motorcyclist and maimed, then I doubt we'll see change.

PS: I'll post a photo of my local corner that is tar snake hell. It deserves road joke of the year award.

[Hitcher]

I have ridden on roads in the USA where there were more tar snakes than road. Where the tar snakes were a sad excuse for patching a crack slightly wider than one's front wheel. Where the snakes had softened in the heat making them, well, extremely slippery. Tar snakes in New Zealand are not even on the same planet as their North American counterparts.

[AllanB]

Tar snakes - are they like coloured bed-snakes?

[JohnR]

I have ridden on roads in the USA where there were more tar snakes than road. Where the tar snakes were a sad excuse for patching a crack slightly wider than one's front wheel. Where the snakes had softened in the heat making them, well, extremely slippery. Tar snakes in New Zealand are not even on the same planet as their North American counterparts.

Everyone knows that in America everything is bigger, faster better etc...

[Squiggles]

as if they'd gouged the road and filled it in...not sure why they'd do that, I don't recall there being any large cracks there before.

I think you're seeing their new technique, where they widen the crack before filling.

Is there any real reason they cant chuck some grit in the tar?

[Marmoot]

they certainly give you a fright when they catch you unawares

Only the poisonous ones. Watch the head shape, the ones with poison are generally triangular.

It's hot now, snakes come out to sunbathe since they're coldblooded.

[TLDV8]

Has anyone else noticed a large increase in the number of tar snakes on the road in the last couple of weeks.

[vifferman]

Has anyone else noticed a large increase in the number of tar snakes on the road in the last couple of weeks.

It's the warmer weather - they're starting to breed. And like Marmoot said - they like to lie on the warm roads and sunbathe.

[Skyryder]

Tar snakes are gravity fed.


Skyryder

[prettybillie]

Tar snakes - are they like coloured bed-snakes?

Or trouser snakes?

[vifferman]

Or trouser snakes?

You're naughty, prettybillie!

[prettybillie]

You're naughty, prettybillie!

It was just a question mwahahahahahaha

[slofox]

It was just a question mwahahahahahaha

Hmmmmm...you like spanking too huh.......ht. ht. ht.