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No surprises, Tauranga is after all the most car-brained town in the entire country, yes even over Auckland.
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:"Back at Friday’s Tauranga meeting, another audience member suggested traffic workers should work 24 hours a day, seven days a week." soon: "why are roads 4x more expensive"
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I try not to read too much about it as I get real mad, but they've been wanting to get SH2 fixed, improved whatever for years. Now they're doing it and everyone is bitching about the traffic, I dunno what they expect. Roads to magically build themselves? Just selfish stupid shitsheads. The same people who complain about potholes then moan about traffic when they get fixed.
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Project M.A.M.I.L. posted:I try not to read too much about it as I get real mad, but they've been wanting to get SH2 fixed, improved whatever for years. Now they're doing it and everyone is bitching about the traffic, I dunno what they expect. Roads to magically build themselves? Just selfish stupid shitsheads. The same people who complain about potholes then moan about traffic when they get fixed. No you see all roadworks should be done between 10pm and 6am, and all the cones/signs removed every morning so boomers can drive at 120kph. Forcing people to drive at 30-50kph actually increases the risk of crashes because it's sooo tiring to drive slower
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Did you read that argument someone made that was earnestly trying to say that? It was a while ago maybe in Southland, some lady tried to say that if speed limits are lower, she'll be too busy looking at her speedo trying not to speed instead of looking at the road. I wish we treated cars like guns and if you use them in a threatening or dangerous manner in public they get taken away and you can't have another one for a long time.
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It was Judith Collins. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/po...nd-distractions
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Whoa didn't know that. The lady I read about might have been referring to that though, it was at a hearing about proposed speed limit changes somewhere. It wouldn't surprise me if they just cribbed it from Collins, they don't usually have arguments of their own, the people who are against nice things.
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The argument that lower speed limits increase driver fatigue is incredibly common in this dumb country, the number of local government submissions opposing reducing 50km/h zones to 30km/h that use the driver fatigue argument is hilarious
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They did Wanaka to 40, and the first 10 minutes driving around it loving sucked then I forgot about it and got on with life and then I found myself thinking 50 was too fast. People are loving idiots (myself included) and im not so sure people should be able to make decisions on the speed limit unless your the speed limit master.
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The dril tweet about drunk driving
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El Pollo Blanco posted:The argument that lower speed limits increase driver fatigue is incredibly common in this dumb country, the number of local government submissions opposing reducing 50km/h zones to 30km/h that use the driver fatigue argument is hilarious Also lol people will watch their Speedo more. Most people hardly look at it now and end up speeding. The same people who say roadworkers should work 24/7 also probably complain that roadworkers aren't actively doing something on a worksite when they drive past. Also, some roadwork you literally cannot do in wet or cold weather (which is why so much gets done over summer)
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I remember caring about this stuff before starting cycling Now I just tell people I'm fit and great, they're fat and lazy, share the road
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Didn't know there was a straight line in all of New Zealand, we put Lancre to shame.
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WarpedNaba posted:Didn't know there was a straight line in all of New Zealand, we put Lancre to shame. The car addled would literally see nothing wrong with blasting an 800km, 12 lane hole through every hill and forest if it meant not having to wait for a passing lane.
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Tourists flock the world over to witness the magnificent beauty of our roads.
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That one blooper in Fellowship where a car drove past enriched our tourism industry for decades to come.
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The Wellington to Auckland straight line but it's actually high speed rail
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Spyderizer posted:The car addled would literally see nothing wrong with blasting an 800km, 12 lane hole through every hill and forest if it meant not having to wait for a passing lane. Until they see the cost estimate and construction time phasing, choose to disbelieve both, and then act surprised they can't find a contractor who will do it
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Road workers already routinely work illegal hours.
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Beartaco posted:That one blooper in Fellowship where a car drove past enriched our tourism industry for decades to come. When was that, I've still never noticed it
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It's in the "if I take one more step it'll be the furthest from home" scene
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:When was that, I've still never noticed it I remember the helicopter, but not the car
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i remember a stray twix wrapper man i haven't had a twix in ages
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bike tory posted:It's in the "if I take one more step it'll be the furthest from home" scene It's only in the theatrical release, was fixed for the DVD, except it appears in one of the special features.
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Meanwhile, what actual 14 lane highways look like https://twitter.com/g_meslin/status/1003653864330092544
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did you guys know that james cameron actually goes by "jim"?
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Beartaco posted:did you guys know that james cameron actually goes by "jim"? hosed if true
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Progressive JPEG posted:the mines of moria act was all filmed in a partially completed city link station The Balrog is wayne-o charging in with budget cuts That's why the lovely bridge collapsed
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WarpedNaba posted:I remember the helicopter, but not the car Wait what helicopter
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Wait what helicopter that's the "bird" that took the hobbits to mordor
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Even with the latest poll, National appears to be coasting on it's lack of costed policy, so I've been curious how they plan to campaign this year. Luxon isn't popular and lacks the charisma to turn that around. The economy makes balancing tax cuts with any other promises difficult. Obviously they can (and will) lie, but that has limits. Looking at this RNZ article, I think I can see an inkling of a plan. In it, they propose to solve the housing crisis by removing regulations and gesticulating wildly at councils. If the media narrative buys into this, they will say it will pay for itself via investors etc.
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What's the signage like? Key used to be on almost everything because he was popular, are they trying that with Luxon?
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bike tory posted:Limits on advertising spending don't start until the 14th July so they're throwing probably literally millions at it until then. Goddamn thats cynical. I presume all parties do it but that's just hosed
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