e30ftw 396 Report post Posted February 24, 2016 Complain to the council. IIRC someone on here a while ago did when they broke their oil pan on a poorly repaired road and they paid in part to replace it. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raewyn22 149 Report post Posted February 26, 2016 Complain to the council. IIRC someone on here a while ago did when they broke their oil pan on a poorly repaired road and they paid in part to replace it.Yup, that was me. The road works company (Downer) covered my claim in full. Had happened to a few people apparently. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mynbmr 225 Report post Posted February 26, 2016 BRING BACK MINISTRY OF WORKS,,,,,,, I should start a campaign. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_ethrty-Andy_ 2122 Report post Posted February 26, 2016 BRING BACK MINISTRY OF WORKS,,,,,,, I should start a campaign. typically i favour privatisation over government doing everything, in theory private companies can do it cheaper while making a profit. The problem arises because there is no accountability between the job completion and the government, the the contractors do a half assed job, paid in full and then they are back there in a year. NZTA is a small organisation by comparison. The exception is the big projects, transmission gully, waikato expressway, rimutaka hill road, they are all completed to a high standard as they are big enough to have an NZTA rep assigned to them to oversee it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KwS 2376 Report post Posted February 26, 2016 in regards to my earlier comment, the new single yellow line dividing the lanes on SH2 northbound is a temporary line in place whilst they do some work. It is a no passing line. Sauce: NZTA Wellington Twitter f**k that, it makes no sense. Its a straight bit of road, both lanes going the same way, on a motorway. How will stopping people changing lanes keep workers safe? GTFO. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
e30ftw 396 Report post Posted February 26, 2016 I went over that a couple days ago, to me it looks like because they resurfaced one side it's either higher or lower than the right lane. I'd say it's to avoid people changing lanes at 100kmh over a lip in the road. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KwS 2376 Report post Posted February 27, 2016 im never in the LH lane through there so havent driven over it, but i cant imagine it would be that bad? Either way, its confusing. It also makes me wonder why they bothered to do just one lane in the first place. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_ethrty-Andy_ 2122 Report post Posted February 27, 2016 John is probably right, those of you that drive from the city to porirua would have seen it south bound between november and december last year. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M3AN 4015 Report post Posted February 27, 2016 in regards to my earlier comment, the new single yellow line dividing the lanes on SH2 northbound is a temporary line in place whilst they do some work. It is a no passing line. Sauce: NZTA Wellington Twitter f**k that, it makes no sense. Its a straight bit of road, both lanes going the same way, on a motorway. How will stopping people changing lanes keep workers safe? GTFO. That's an interesting application of a solid yellow line. And I'm not sure it's covered anywhere in the road code. A solid yellow line means "you can't cross this to pass". It doesn't mean, as far as I can tell "you can't cross this". There are many examples where you have to cross a solid yellow line (pulling in to some driveways is an example). If you're not passing anything then I'd like to see them enforce this "can't change lanes yellow line". And it also begs the question, if it can mean simply "don't cross", why the Victoria Park tunnel in Auckland isn't marked with solid yellow lines between lanes? There are (unenforceable) signs entering the tunnel saying "No Changing Lanes In Tunnel" so why only solid white lines (which are simply an advisory not to change lanes). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KwS 2376 Report post Posted February 27, 2016 Now that i know a single yellow line dividing lanes going in he same direction is a thing, i can think of plenty of places where it should be used (SH2 at Petone, northbound in the 80k zone where Priests Ave intersects. have had a few close calls there with people changing lanes wiithout indicating, into the gap that im taking off into). The road code says you cannot cross a yellow line to pass, but it say nothing about crossing it to change lanes. I went over this section of road earlier and yes there is a slight height difference between lanes, but they have smoothed it out and you would have to be trying hard to have an issue crossing it. Mind you, with the driving skills of 90% of the drivers here, i can see why they did it (not that the line matters, i still have people cross it to cut me off). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M3AN 4015 Report post Posted February 27, 2016 Now that i know a single yellow line dividing lanes going in he same direction is a thing... I don't think it is a thing, that's my point. They're just making it up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
e30ftw 396 Report post Posted February 28, 2016 Well there is signage "uneven surface", it's more for awareness than anything. I'm sure if they didn't some numpty would manage to have a crash changing lanes over it and blame them for no warning. Not like they can out a couple hundred meters of cones to divide the lanes. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_ethrty-Andy_ 2122 Report post Posted February 28, 2016 They have done even more reselling over night so it's even longer now Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KwS 2376 Report post Posted February 28, 2016 i dont get why they dont just do both lanes. Monday, do 100m left lane. Tuesday, do 100m right lane. Wednesday do another 100m left lane. So on and so forth. I understand they dont want to close the road completely and do both at once. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
polley 916 Report post Posted February 28, 2016 Yup, that was me. The road works company (Downer) covered my claim in full. Had happened to a few people apparently. How did you go about that, and was it much hassle? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
E30 325i Rag-Top 2915 Report post Posted February 28, 2016 Well there is signage "uneven surface", it's more for awareness than anything.Those uneven surface signs crack me up! Have they seen the state of the roads in NZ??Would be easier to put "even surface" on the bits that are smooth and flat. 7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_ethrty-Andy_ 2122 Report post Posted February 28, 2016 i dont get why they dont just do both lanes. Monday, do 100m left lane. Tuesday, do 100m right lane. Wednesday do another 100m left lane. So on and so forth. I understand they dont want to close the road completely and do both at once.You answered your own question. They cannot close the road. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gjm 3193 Report post Posted February 28, 2016 Drivers who move into the right hand lane of a dual-carriageway for no reason whatsoever! 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mynbmr 225 Report post Posted February 28, 2016 i dont get why they dont just do both lanes. Monday, do 100m left lane. Tuesday, do 100m right lane. Wednesday do another 100m left lane. So on and so forth. I understand they dont want to close the road completely and do both at once. You answered your own question. They cannot close the road. They can do both lanes without closing the road, its not like concrete you can drive on it straight away, they only have to move the cones. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_ethrty-Andy_ 2122 Report post Posted February 28, 2016 They can do both lanes without closing the road, its not like concrete you can drive on it straight away, they only have to move the cones. yeah wait for the trucks to pack it all in lol 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeffbebe 1559 Report post Posted March 4, 2016 When your water blaster pulls a chunk of paint off the bonnet and you realise the previous owner scrimped on the respray. F$@$$&@&&$$ck!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KwS 2376 Report post Posted March 4, 2016 oh sheeeit. time to go back to brilliantrot? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeffbebe 1559 Report post Posted March 4, 2016 Would love to but can't afford to. Full bonnet repaint will be $300-500 depending on how much work to create a surface the paint will stick to this time! Full repaint probably more like $10-12K to be done right. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kulgan 1042 Report post Posted March 4, 2016 Ah crap. At 10-12k for a repaint I'm guessing it is but at the same time hoping your not talking about the 850i... Jeez thats gotta suck. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeffbebe 1559 Report post Posted March 4, 2016 Yep, 'fraid so. It'll have to live with a bit of touch up paint for now as I can't really afford the bonnet repaint at the moment, let alone $10K+ to respray back to red!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
