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#2957493 22-Aug-2022 08:12

This is how it is going to be going forward unless we are prepared to quadruple the roading spend and associated taxes. These weather extreme events are going to get worse and more frequent. Roads cut through hills are at risk and we have a lot of hills in Aotearoa.

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#2957532 22-Aug-2022 09:53

DjShadow:
One of those "Thank God for Transmission Gully" Days, SH59 closed till further notice because of this

It looks as if the slope further up the road has come down previously. This should have been no surprise.

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#2957859 22-Aug-2022 15:22

Unless it's been fixed recently Paekakariki Hill Road has had a slip which has reduced the road down to one lane for months now, maybe close to a year. It causes carnage if there is any kind of volume over the summer because, although there are signs indicating who gets to go when, people get fed up waiting, ignore them, and well....you can guess the rest.

Akatarawa Hill Road - Anyone who suggests this has clearly never been anywhere near it. It's single lane for large parts, speeds are regularly walking pace, and when we last did it the flow of traffic southbound was longer than one of the single lane sections so with a couple of cars coming north it quickly become gridlocked. It took over two hours of people walking up and down the road trying to get cars to inch forward/backwards to create enough of a gap for a car to get cleared.

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#3008804 12-Dec-2022 08:59

Looks like the end is in sight for TG mobile blackspots!

I noticed two new sites on gis.geek.nz were registered by RCG at the start of this month. One at Wainui Saddle, co-located with a new Police repeater and old repeater/GPS gear for the road builders. The other is in Whitby, co-located with some water reservoirs, between the SH58 interchange and Whitby/Waitangirua interchange.

Both sites are fairly close the the road, and appear to have relatively good line of sight for long stretches of the road.

Hopefully calls can seamlessly transfer between the RCG sites and VF/2D/Spark so I can have uninterrupted phone calls on the drive home.

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#3008805 12-Dec-2022 09:11

Also note the road will be closed during the holidays for surface work...

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#3008823 12-Dec-2022 09:49

freitasm:

Also note the road will be closed during the holidays for surface work...

I think you mean "lane closures" not road closures, :)

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#3008946 12-Dec-2022 13:07

Once PP2O is open and bedded in, hopefully they will revisit the speed limit for the Wellington Northern Corridor and raise it to 110km/h. They spent extra over the initial plans to raise the design speed to 110km/h for Transmission Gully but then opened with it only 100km/h. Having these issues with the current speed limit doesn't bode well though.

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#3008948 12-Dec-2022 13:08

nickb800:

Both sites are fairly close the the road, and appear to have relatively good line of sight for long stretches of the road.

You can actually see the Wainui Saddle site build now - it is indeed close to the road in a blackspot area. Excellent news though!

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#3008953 12-Dec-2022 13:16

dolsen:
Once PP2O is open and bedded in, hopefully they will revisit the speed limit for the Wellington Northern Corridor and raise it to 110km/h. They spent extra over the initial plans to raise the design speed to 110km/h for Transmission Gully but then opened with it only 100km/h. Having these issues with the current speed limit doesn't bode well though.

Tell that to the Ute drivers already doing 130kph.

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#3009011 12-Dec-2022 14:31

michaelmurfy:

nickb800:

Both sites are fairly close the the road, and appear to have relatively good line of sight for long stretches of the road.

You can actually see the Wainui Saddle site build now - it is indeed close to the road in a blackspot area. Excellent news though!

Interestingly, although the RCG site at that spot is called 'Wainui Saddle Police' (presumably based on the Police Repeater), the Vodafone microwave link (presumably for Police) calls it 'COW Wainui Saddle'. I wonder if that means VF is deploying a CoW to that spot as an interim solution?

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#3009016 12-Dec-2022 14:57

dolsen:

Once PP2O is open and bedded in, hopefully they will revisit the speed limit for the Wellington Northern Corridor and raise it to 110km/h. They spent extra over the initial plans to raise the design speed to 110km/h for Transmission Gully but then opened with it only 100km/h. Having these issues with the current speed limit doesn't bode well though.

We can but hope....

But they should extend the "Motorway" designation all the way to Otaki, so that cyclists are forced to either use the former SH!, or the shared path built especially...

Having 110km/h and Lycra on the same road (like it is in the Waikato) is just nuts...

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#3009070 12-Dec-2022 15:41

wellygary:

dolsen:

Once PP2O is open and bedded in, hopefully they will revisit the speed limit for the Wellington Northern Corridor and raise it to 110km/h.

We can but hope....

There is speed limit consultation that closes at 5PM today (12/12/2022). It is mainly on the PP2O section (proposed speed limit is 100 km/h), but, you could give some feedback about the connected motorway / expressways having the speed limit upgraded to 110km/h.

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/safety/what-waka-kotahi-is-doing/interim-state-highway-speed-management-plan/wellington/

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#3009083 12-Dec-2022 16:21

dolsen:

There is speed limit consultation that closes at 5PM today (12/12/2022). It is mainly on the PP2O section (proposed speed limit is 100 km/h), but, you could give some feedback about the connected motorway / expressways having the speed limit upgraded to 110km/h.

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/safety/what-waka-kotahi-is-doing/interim-state-highway-speed-management-plan/wellington/

Not to mention the proposal to drop the speed limit at the Ngauranga interchanges from 80km/h to 50. Smart motorway with traffic dependant signage anyone?

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#3009109 12-Dec-2022 18:18

allan:

dolsen:

There is speed limit consultation that closes at 5PM today (12/12/2022). It is mainly on the PP2O section (proposed speed limit is 100 km/h), but, you could give some feedback about the connected motorway / expressways having the speed limit upgraded to 110km/h.

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/safety/what-waka-kotahi-is-doing/interim-state-highway-speed-management-plan/wellington/

Not to mention the proposal to drop the speed limit at the Ngauranga interchanges from 80km/h to 50. Smart motorway with traffic dependant signage anyone?

I had a nosey, the Ngauranga decrease is for the off/on ramp areas - not the motorway section itself.

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#3022727 17-Jan-2023 13:44

About time and good news....

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/482579/transmission-gully-long-term-solution-takes-shape-for-cellphone-black-spots

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