Rimutaka Hill - fully double-yellow lined! %$#@n Pricks!

[FJRider]

It's not The Fuzz(TM) that I fear on this. It's the *555 cellphone brigade. Sigh.

Perhaps NZTA needs to come up with another colour for no passing lines that show it's OK for bikes but not for cars and larger vehicles...

How goods cell reception up there ???

[Fatjim]

Been over today and they have painted the bottom half of the Feathers side..so far. The top half has had the white lines burnt off ready for painting.

As expected, the slowest vehicle set the pace for the rest of us, bumper to bumber behind. I guess we now have more time to look at the scenery.

What I found mildly ammusing is how smudged the new line is, with on almost every corner, the yellow paint has been screen printed all over the road by the tyres of vehicles that have crossed the wet centre lines.

In one case, the yellow lines were copied a good 2 metres onto the wrong side of the road by a truck.

[riffer]

Of course, a little bit of civil disobedience in the form of a bloke with a paint brush and some yellow paint creating multiple yellow lines all over the road wouldn't go amiss either...

[StoneY]

Goin over again today so will see what state it is by the time I head home-

[peasea]

How goods cell reception up there ???

I've not been arrested up there so couldn't tell ya.

[James Deuce]

What I found mildly ammusing is how smudged the new line is, with on almost every corner, the yellow paint has been screen printed all over the road by the tyres of vehicles that have crossed the wet centre lines.

In one case, the yellow lines were copied a good 2 metres onto the wrong side of the road by a truck.

Trucks are allowed to do that because Tony Friedlander said it's OK and everyone knows that every NZ government of the last 20 years does everything the trucking lobby says because trucks are cool.

Bikes on the other hand....

[_STAIN_]

What I found mildly ammusing is how smudged the new line is, with on almost every corner, the yellow paint has been screen printed all over the road by the tyres of vehicles that have crossed the wet centre lines.

In one case, the yellow lines were copied a good 2 metres onto the wrong side of the road by a truck.

Exactly Jim, I could not believe how many black line there were over the fresh paint, 100's are blatantly cutting corners over the painted "safety barrier"
better start using spell check or Hutcher is goin to be on your arse

[MSTRS:Me]

What I found mildly amusing is how smudged the new line is, with on almost every corner, the yellow paint has been screen printed all over the road by the tyres of vehicles that have crossed the wet centre lines.

In one case, the yellow lines were copied a good 2 metres onto the wrong side of the road by a truck.

Jim...Jim...I'm surprised that you got that so wrong. Screenprinting is a totally different operation. What you meant to say was Letterpress, right?

In any case, I'm not so sure that painted lines mean much to the average driver. More just a guide that they are still on the road...

[sunhuntin]

car drivers bitching on tardme about the removal of passing lanes.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/M...eadid=38187594

[Shadows]

car drivers bitching on tardme about the removal of passing lanes.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/M...eadid=38187594

So they should.

Yellow lines or not I don't reckon it'll be long before head on crashes caused by driver frustration start happening.

[Hitcher]

The yellow stripers were flat out today on the Wellington side. They should have it all done in time for the weekend.

[FIDH]

To be honest, I'm not really surprised. I ride a fairly quick bike, love the 'Taka's and have ridden them on and off since I started riding 30 years ago. The thing I have been most pissed off with over the last few years, is the number of IDIOTS on big bikes that DO seem to ride like they are on a race track, to the detriment of other road users. I have had dickhead racer wannabes cut me off, dropping in on my front wheel exiting corners they thought they could pass me on, until they see the cage or truck coming the other way.

In all seriousness, I'm gonna hate this yellow line bullshit, but SOME OF YOU, and you will know who you are, ARE partly to blame. By treating the Hill as your own private race track, and the behaviour that goes with such arrogant road use, you have fucked it up for those who like to ride hard, but not at the expense and safety of other road users.

In closing, this is what the Hill should be remembered like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kNAj4LvNwA

[wilber]

Mr plod wont patrol the hill now he'll be waiting on the first straight on the either side of the hill to catch everbody ,you can almost hear the cash registor ringing already.

[carbonhed]

In closing, this is what the Hill should be remembered like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kNAj4LvNwA

If we all had to remember such a stupenously tedious blither over the Taka's as that... then for me they could bulldoze the whole damn thing.

I want that "x" minutes of my life back.

[Hailwood]

Sorry carbonhead but I have to agree with the previous poster...too many people have used that road like a racetrack without the thought of others..it was bound to happen. Like it or not, not all cagers marvel at the skill (used tongue in cheek) of the multicoloured leather clad rossi wannabes that howl up and down the hill on various sides of the road around blind corners, cutting off others including other bikers.

Its the same as being experienced on the back roads around the rapa now with the increase in police cars cruising around. Why? Because once again said rossi wannabes have been using the roads like a racetrack and the general population have had enough!!!!!

I am all for people being able to use their bikes to the maximum potential and I know that I could never ride a 1 litre sportsbike to anywhere near its potential (and I hasten to add that few owners can either) but ffs, if you want to act like and look like rossi, then go to a damn track day!!!!!!!! Otherwise all that will happen is that it is going to get harder to enjoy any roads anywhere...just my opinion