Unswept road works

[Monsterbishi]

mmmmmmm...during the summer the tar was coming up through the roads around our place.....ina quiet country town 25kms south of blenheim....so they dumped enough 'dust'...and it is dust...like sand and slightly larger chips....all over the roads...it was about an inch thick. Even in the cage it was dangerous...the local boy racers found it and for weeks we could hear then doing laps around the block ripping it up. Its never been swept

Have you considered the concept of calling the local council and asking for it to be swept? During summer when it's flat-out busy it's easy to miss sweeping a site.

[Nade]

BBWWAHAHHHA your funny. The local council can't even provide water from the tap clean enough to drink. But yes...calls were made...several in fact by more than one resident.....and calls to the police about the boy racers....but being so far from town...by the time the cops get here they are gone. Everyting takes meetings and great lenghts of time in this district. Its a pain in the arse

[bully]

i guess they just dont think/care about bikes..
the standards of work are shit! in general.

[puddytat]

Its another example of "I dont give a fuck " syndrome that seems to be becoming more prevalent in this country...

[90s]

Having had loads of local rd resealed in my area recently they seem to leave it 2 weeks for cars to "do the sweeping", come back with a sweeper that piles the gravel at the sides of the rd, and then the linepainter comes and puts the lines back. I think its an actual system they have got going.
Its a real pain for a motor-sickle, and even more of a pain for my cycling because even 3 months after the woodland's park rd reseal the sides are still gravel traps that present a real hazzard to bicycles & even bikes if you run wide.

Last year when the wife was on pillion I hit one of these gravel traps on another rd when overtaking and really stepped out the rear. I was not happy.

[vifferman]

Have you considered the concept of calling the local council and asking for it to be swept? During summer when it's flat-out busy it's easy to miss sweeping a site.

Yeah.
Find out who's responsible (council, Fulton Hogan, Transit) and hassle 'em till it's cleaned up. It's their job - make 'em do it.