Melting tar

[DonaldH]

Out today up by Coatesville and foumd the roads just too covered in molten tar to be safe.

I (and a bunch of cars) were diverted around Coatesville by the police and coming back that way later on found the main road through Coatesville to be just a tar slick.

Is it just cheap road-making or just too much sun....

[dangermouse_1974]

Interesting. I was coming along the same road myself (around noon-ish from memory) and the police told me that traffic was being diverted as a bike had gone down.

No idea about the tar though. I'm originally from Queensland (in Aucks at the moment) and the temps were way hotter and I never experienced the kind of tar issues that happen all too often over here.

I agree with you though on the condition of the Coatesville - Riverhead road..it was like riding in a bloody minefield especially on the long right-hander just out of Riverhead heading towards Coatesville.

It's a shame to be glad to get home when the weather was so nice

[Brett]

a common summer issue. In NZ we use 2nd grade tar in our roads cause it is cheaper. It has a much lower melting point, hence in warm weather our roads turn to shit in no time at all. That tar melt is slippery shit.

[sAsLEX]

Is it just cheap road-making

Short sighted bureaucrats making their yearly budgets look good.

Fucktards.

[zadok]

I noticed this phenomenon when I was up the Coromandal a few years ago. We get +40 over here in summer and the roads seem to be ok.

[Forest]

Short sighted bureaucrats making their yearly budgets look good.

Fucktards.

The contractors and sub-contractors have more responsibility then the government does.

[Mystic13]

The level of melt seems to be relatively new. You can ride a section of older road and it's fine and then the new section is not only melting but it's had two sections where the tyres go re-laid.

Someone posted on another forum that the product produced out of Marsden has changed and the stuff that is meant to evaporate out after laying isn't and hence it melts.

Someone..... needs to get a campaign going on this. Thank goodness it is now becoming hazardous to cars. Because this makes it dangerous to a whole wider audience.

Can someone who knows about the Coatesville thing contact the media from a driver perspective?

[Trumpess]

Its not just Coatesvillle .... its a phenonomin that happens countrywide.
I agree whole heartidly, and tend to think a motorcyclists saftey is the furtherest from a burocrates mind.

[slofox]

but it's had two sections where the tyres go re-laid.

Yes...and those two relaid strips are higher than the surrounding road which makes it "interesting" if you cross onto or off them.....

[sAsLEX]

The contractors and sub-contractors have more responsibility then the government does.

Who pays the contractors and passes their work as acceptable ?

[hayd3n]

Who pays the contractors and passes their work as acceptable ?

id like to think that they got school cert or equivalent

[sinfull]

Who pays the contractors and passes their work as acceptable ?

The accountant who contracts the contracts to the subcontractors, but then he's covered by a release in his contract !

Hey i guess it's like anything these days, the temps are rising but the mix aint been reajusted to counter the melt factor ! Like Zadok said, don't have that problem in the coromandel, so does that mean they use a higher quality where the higher temps will cause melt ?

[saul]

The accountant who contracts the contracts to the subcontractors, but then he's covered by a release in his contract !

Hey i guess it's like anything these days, the temps are rising but the mix aint been reajusted to counter the melt factor ! Like Zadok said, don't have that problem in the coromandel, so does that mean they use a higher quality where the higher temps will cause melt ?

He's in Aussie bro.

[sinfull]

He's in Aussie bro.

Bwahahahah more fool him then, ok didn't read it proper !

[MSTRS:Me]

If the Aussies can lay chip roads that stay 'perfect' up to and over 45 degrees, then it can be done here. I believe that the tar mix used is the same stuff (bitumen) except they use an additive that raises the melting point. Not sure of that tho. ut whatever, it is obviously more economical to have roads that turn to crap quickly and need relaying (after enough problems) than it is to do properly in the first place.