Prepare to be grumpy - Auckland toll plan

[R650R]

Correct. All of those "ramp lights" were installed to keep some retard's promise to free-up the motorways. This simply shifted the traffic off of the Transit owned motorway and onto the Council owned side roads.

I know people don't like those but they work overseas and they work in NZ. I used to use Tamaki rd on ramp and that mway section itself often and it made things heaps better.
Until we have a major evolution shift in the human brain they are the best way to ensure a reasonable merging of onramp traffic and mway traffic.

[R650R]

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" if I don't listen to them..what else have they got .....internet forums"

LOL I'd love to hear one of the multi quoters from here try and do a talkback call....

[swbarnett]

I know people don't like those but they work overseas and they work in NZ.

I've lost track of the number of times I've seen a continuous line of traffic past those lights. The light goes green and noone moves because they can't.

Even more often I have seen them on when the motorway is almost empty. They may work in a small number of isolated cases or certain on-ramps but on the whole they only shift the problem. Yet another case of Transit caring nothing for roads that they don't manage.

[Gremlin]

They may work in a small number of isolated cases or certain on-ramps but on the whole they only shift the problem. Yet another case of Transit caring nothing for roads that they don't manage.

Typical terrible Attitude.

"Hey, the ramp lights are working brilliantly, the motorway is flowing much better!"
"Sure, but have you seen the mess it's making of the roads next to the on ramp?"
"Oh, those roads aren't our problem..."

[Big Dave]

Yep. Over here they have poured billions into the SEQ motorways system. All it succeeds in doing is relocating the gridlock.

North, South and West of Brisbane the flow is similar to Auckland peak.

Today's concessions - lane splitting legalised again - and a raft of incredibly stupid laws regarding riding have been repealed - may offer some hope.

Maybe they are just be starting to realise what we all know. That motorcycles and scooters are part of a solution to urban congestion.

[Swoop]

Today's concessions - lane splitting legalised again - and a raft of incredibly stupid laws regarding riding have been repealed - may offer some hope.

Maybe they are just be starting to realise what we all know. That motorcycles and scooters are part of a solution to urban congestion.

That sound's quite interesting Dave. Could you summarise what changes have been made for us please?

[Big Dave]

That sound's quite interesting Dave. Could you summarise what changes have been made for us please?

Currently in Queensland you can be fined for:

ANY Lane splitting. Even stationary traffic.

Taking foot off the pegs for any reason - including backing into a parking spot or stretching due to tiredness.

Standing on the pegs while riding

Turning head to check traffic

Taking both hands off the handlebars - even while stationary.



Some of this utter stupidity will be repealed in February. Also Helmet standards reqiuirements.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/quee...30-11el72.html

[Swoop]

Currently in Queensland you can be fined for:

Taking foot off the pegs for any reason - including backing into a parking spot or stretching due to tiredness.

Turning head to check traffic

Taking both hands off the handlebars - even while stationary.

Good grief.

[Gremlin]

Turning head to check traffic

Ok, there was a lot in your post that made me all

But seriously? A law that actually made you significantly less safe?

... wow...

[Big Dave]

The more people there are - the more people there are making up stupid rules.

[unstuck]

Aussies are stupid to start with, and then they let them make some rules.

[Big Dave]

Aussies are stupid to start with, and then they let them make some rules.

Says the guy who took 3 minutes to type that line.

[unstuck]

Says the guy who took 3 minutes to type that line.

Took me that long to find the right emoticon.

[Big Dave]

'And Square Dancing in a Round House.' - Sam, Yosemite - circa 1955.

[Moi]

Who collected the tolls from the harbour bridge back in the good old days? That was the only toll bridge in the world to stop charging tolls once the building costs of the bridge was paid for, so I am lead to believe.

The bridge was the responsibility of the Auckland Harbour Bridge Authority - who used Austin Gypsy vehicles as recovery vehicles at one time. At first tolls were charged both ways - 2/6 [25c] for a car which was a slightly more impressive sum of money in the early 1960s than 25c is today.[Some economist do the inflation bit and tell us what it would be today.] In later years tolls were charged only north bound and then abolished by Muldoon as an election bribe. Was it about the same time they did away with the tolls on the Lyttelton tunnel?

I liked travelling the vehicular ferries - the wait to board was tedious whereas the 'voyage' was wonderful, especially from Beaumont Street to Northcote as you passed under the bridge construction...