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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
How you finding the NZ roads?
Genuine question.
Not so much the surfacing but the geometry?
The NZ domiciled Ferners will tell you the roads are full of potholes and falling apart, but my recollection of recentish trips is the random sharp bends with really reduced advisory speeds after travelling at 100kmph for some distance.
And the narrower road widths.
After travelling in Aus where they don't have real hills it came as a bit of a shock
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@booboo hadn't really thought about it, I'm used to South London and Kent overflowing and narrow, higgledy-piggledy, narrow roads and lanes anyway - either that or boring as fuck motorways.
I hate the stretch of road on the M25 from ours to Heathrow so much, we caught the train this time around and I lugged the heavy suitcases, it's probably quicker anyway.
Plus the roads genuinely seem in at least as good, if not better condition, no major thuds on the drive yesterday. I generally can't drive anywhere in the UK without hitting a road with defects that will demolish a wheel if you don't see them. My view in the UK might be slightly coloured though as my company is involved in government asset management...
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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
How you finding the NZ roads?
Genuine question.
Not so much the surfacing but the geometry?
The NZ domiciled Ferners will tell you the roads are full of potholes and falling apart, but my recollection of recentish trips is the random sharp bends with really reduced advisory speeds after travelling at 100kmph for some distance.
And the narrower road widths.
After travelling in Aus where they don't have real hills it came as a bit of a shock
Hah i can imagine NZ is quite different in this regards. We have lots of hills / mini mountains and at times a rather narrow bit of land to work with. Those reduced speed advisory's are there for a reason but you are normally all good for 10-15km over the signed amount.
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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
How you finding the NZ roads?
Genuine question.
Not so much the surfacing but the geometry?
The NZ domiciled Ferners will tell you the roads are full of potholes and falling apart, but my recollection of recentish trips is the random sharp bends with really reduced advisory speeds after travelling at 100kmph for some distance.
And the narrower road widths.
After travelling in Aus where they don't have real hills it came as a bit of a shock
Is it the grumpy old man in me kicking in or are there genuinely far more roadworks these days than in the past ?
I’m driving to Hawkes Bay on the 23rd and getting angry in advance.
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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
How you finding the NZ roads?
Genuine question.
Not so much the surfacing but the geometry?
The NZ domiciled Ferners will tell you the roads are full of potholes and falling apart, but my recollection of recentish trips is the random sharp bends with really reduced advisory speeds after travelling at 100kmph for some distance.
And the narrower road widths.
After travelling in Aus where they don't have real hills it came as a bit of a shock
As I live in NSW I always find the roads a breeze when I'm in NZ. Much less bumpy. TBF I feel the same way when crossing over the border into Queensland.
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@mariner4life said in Travel:
crossing over the border into Queensland
so, never driven the Bruce highway then. what a disgraceful piece of shit that is
Nope - actually I've driven Cairns to Townsville, but that was years ago.
I guess I just mean SEQ,
My point was NSW roads suck.
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Well Kaitaia to Cape Reinga and down to Waitangi via Ahipara today and it's been a fucking excellent and beautiful drive, superb roads and smiles on our faces the whole way. Really don't understand the issue, especially having come from London. Glorious driving weather too. Roadworks every so often, but fuck it's no bother.
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Well Kaitaia to Cape Reinga and down to Waitangi via Ahipara today and it's been a fucking excellent and beautiful drive, superb roads and smiles on our faces the whole way. Really don't understand the issue, especially having come from London. Glorious driving weather too. Roadworks every so often, but fuck it's no bother.
They can be an issue if there’s cold beer waiting at your destination and you’re stuck in one spot for a period of time but I get your point.
I’ll take a more positive outlook on my drive to the Bay in a few days.
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@MajorRage said in Travel:
Cape Reinga flights planned binned. Couldn’t get on!
Let me know (in advance) if you want to do something like that next time. I'm always looking for excuses to go flying up there (if I take a job that I have been offered, I'll have access to a variety of small commercial aircraft up to 10 seats as well as the usual ones available). You would of course have to put your faith in some bloke off the internet - you can pay in advance to my Nigerian bank account that I use to donate millions of dollars to random people that might want it (although we have met, and you do know who I worked for). Even from AKL it's only about 3 hrs return to the Cape in something slow, or 1:30 return from KK. You can pick up one of the beach trips or whatever from Kaitaia (without having to stay there) if you want to be on the ground as well.
