Goodbye Rimutakas as we know it now?

**Number One** · 15th February 2009, 17:56

Originally Posted by gammaguy

while we are at it,a nice little cafe and bar at the top?

AND SOME FRICKEN TOILETS THAT WORK!!!! It reeeks up there now with people pissing all over the place because the loos aren't in order

Originally Posted by Hawkeye

Just think of all of the crap that's going to be on the road during the 2 years + it will take them to complete. Roadworks everywhere. Gravel, mud, not to mention the number of machines going up and down the hill during construction.

I'm with Tudes 'Build a Tunnel'.

Me too - dammit I am just starting to enjoy that place!

**Hitcher** · 15th February 2009, 18:38

Originally Posted by Number One

AND SOME FRICKEN TOILETS THAT WORK!!!! It reeeks up there now with people pissing all over the place because the loos aren't in order

There are many places in the Greater Wellington Region that don't have public toilets, like almost every roadside rest area for instance, yet people don't drive for over half an hour from any direction to squat and shit in those.

The toilets at the top of the Takas are closed and will be demolished, together with the Cafe, in the fullness of time. Bowel-driven bikers and others need to better plan their journeys.

**Trudes** · 15th February 2009, 18:51

But my riding gives me the shits!!!

**Hitcher** · 15th February 2009, 18:56

Originally Posted by Trudes

But my riding gives me the shits!!!

Wear gaiters.

**Number One** · 15th February 2009, 19:11

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Bowel-driven bikers and others need to better plan their journeys.

Tell that to my Woolworths Signature Range bladder

**Rev DJ** · 24th August 2009, 10:07

The NZTA has confirmed that the

straightening

of the Rimutaka Hill Road will commence in the spring.

As alluded to in other threads, the road will increasingly be subject to speed restrictions, roadworks (for THREE years), heavy vehicles throwing gravel all over the road, mud and dust, and delays for those who commute over the hill.

I do understand the need for minor upgrades for safety reasons - but taking the character out of the road is certainly the death nell for one of the most interesting roads in the Wellington region. RIP Rimutaka Hill 2009.

Rev

P.S. next they will have a go at the Paekak Hill Road!!