Council blames speed yet again where road condition obviously at fault

[motorbyclist]

just to clear any confusion, this is not some back country road. Candia road sees over 5000 vehicles per day, ranging from work commutes, school runs, heavy traffic, and a fair amount of "recreational" users

ironically, i've seen more trucks crash on Candia than hoons (well those hoons with flash cars, and assuming the truck drivers weren't hoons )

heck, many years ago a flatbed truck rolled on sturges rd right before the intersection with candia - it was carrying a rather large digger.

Oh and one more thing (still venting) - why are the lights in the stairwell always on in the Waitakere Council building? !

don't even get me started on that new building they so desperately needed to build

Yep the poor woman that died was driving a Daihatsu Terios, they're 4x4 aren't they? - so just not built to deal with a slightly rutted road at all.

one of the first vehicles to hit the slippery spot and crash was infact a large 4x4. they all had the same pattern where they hit the inside of the corner and roll

[Dare]

just to clear any confusion, this is not some back country road. Candia road sees over 5000 vehicles per day, ranging from work commutes, school runs, heavy traffic, and a fair amount of "recreational" users

The sad thing is the money is being spent, a couple months ago I came home to find my road (off hadfield on the shore) being resealed... The thing is there was NOTHING WRONG WITH IT, the same job has been done a couple of times since I lived here and the road has been fine the entire time. Granted I did have a minor crash into a tree that is in the middle of the road but that was a problem that existed between my brain and my minis limits in the wet (and zero experience/knowledge of lift off oversteer, something gravel has taught well since). Yet the bottom of Onewa has some pretty severe ripples coming up to the lights that have been there for years. None of that is nearly as bad as what you are dealing with but there seems to be some very wierd bureaucracy going on here. Who is in charge? Where do they have coffee? Can we pay a 'visit'?

[Real_Wolf]

The sad thing is the money is being spent, a couple months ago I came home to find my road (off hadfield on the shore) being resealed... The thing is there was NOTHING WRONG WITH IT, the same job has been done a couple of times since I lived here and the road has been fine the entire time. Granted I did have a minor crash into a tree that is in the middle of the road but that was a problem that existed between my brain and my minis limits in the wet (and zero experience/knowledge of lift off oversteer, something gravel has taught well since). Yet the bottom of Onewa has some pretty severe ripples coming up to the lights that have been there for years. None of that is nearly as bad as what you are dealing with but there seems to be some very wierd bureaucracy going on here. Who is in charge? Where do they have coffee? Can we pay a 'visit'?

Necro much.

I'm curious if you've done anything bout this there motorbicyclist, and what sort of condition its in now.

But yeah, as Dare says, we get road construction over here on the shore quite often, but its not always in places that need it... Going along onewa, just before the lights and just after, its like riding over speed bumps, if you do it at a straight 60km/h you sometimse lift off your seat slightly, and when you stop at the lights in lefthand lane, right foot down, thats fine. Left foot down, straining, its about 10cm or more below your right

[Motu]

just to clear any confusion, this is not some back country road. Candia road sees over 5000 vehicles per day, ranging from work commutes, school runs, heavy traffic, and a fair amount of "recreational" users

But it was a back country road - I used to love Candia Rd in the '70's,up or down.Trouble is lot of these rural roads get run over with subdivisions and become a commuter route...also there are a lot more houses on the Candia Rd hill.It was never made or intended for that level of traffic....same as the Harbour Bridge.It was just a tarsealed gravel road - to make it anything else is going to take major reconstruction.

[The Pastor]

Yeah, the road work contractors do lots of that type of thing, just to make up money so they can claim more next year.

[Tink]

I live in Franklin and I can say the roads are not to shit hot out here, and often you see more than one worker doing nothing... but that road back in february is disgusting, and if it was a gravel road sealed, and the traffic load is high, and so many accidents.. surely the council HAVE TO fix it, and do it properly, not some half hearted crack at it... my road was recently resealed because of it being a school road... 100's of cars and 6 large busses, they literally dug quite a way down to get that seal done properly, and now I ride my bike on it and feel pretty good about the re-seal... that was 6 mths ago.

Like someone here quoted "put it to the press etc"

[ready4whatever]

I live on a little road called Braemar road and years ago half of it slipped into the river next to it. The road cones are still there and nothing is fixed yet FFS. Bloody council aye, they take our rates to repair stuff like this then dont

[motorbyclist]

I'm curious if you've done anything bout this there motorbicyclist, and what sort of condition its in now.

nothing, uni started and other things came up.

road improvements since then:

fresh paint.

red cats eyes on the "drive down a steep bank" side of the road.

mid-winter they put a patch of fresh chipseal on some sunken tar bleed.

within two days the fresh chip seal had bled out into a polished slick tar surface.

shortly thereafter it was re-repaired with tar that doesn't melt below 15 degrees.

they then put some hotmix in the cracks in simpson road. It's still a nightmare to navigate, even in a car, and we can expect the road to be back the way it was in 6 or so months.

all the "45" corner signs are now twice the size of standard signs, just in case people didn't notice them before.....

OH, and they put out those temporary orange "slippery when wet" signs on that lethal corner whenever the weather turns bad.