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martyyn

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#3013845 25-Dec-2022 10:18

I can't even begin to tell you how incredible it is to even consider driving around Ōtaki let alone actually go somewhere.

We've just put the car in the garage every holiday period for the last 6/7 years and refused to go anywhere, even somewhere local.

But yesterday in what would've seen a two hour journey in previous years was a 15 minute joy ride in the new road.

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#3014296 27-Dec-2022 13:42

Spoke too soon.

Clearly the entire Wellington population decided today was the day they would go on holiday.

If you're still in Wellington, stay there. If you're already in the road, turn around.

Traffic is pretty much at a standstill from south of the Ōtaki turn off on the new road right through to Levin.

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#3014302 27-Dec-2022 14:42

martyyn: Spoke too soon.

Clearly the entire Wellington population decided today was the day they would go on holiday.

If you're still in Wellington, stay there. If you're already in the road, turn around.

Traffic is pretty much at a standstill from south of the Ōtaki turn off on the new road right through to Levin.

Fun fun fun

Whens the next section due to be built?

Drove it yesterday was pretty good.

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#3014317 27-Dec-2022 15:38

Why people decide to leave during the day just baffles me.

Yes it's easier to wake up at a leisurely time and hit the road around midday, but holy hecka you pay for it by being part of the traffic problem!

Getting up and hitting the road at a sparrow's fart, or waiting until the evening to travel is so much more relaxing.

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#3014419 27-Dec-2022 18:57

martyyn: Spoke too soon.

Clearly the entire Wellington population decided today was the day they would go on holiday.

If you're still in Wellington, stay there. If you're already in the road, turn around.

Traffic is pretty much at a standstill from south of the Ōtaki turn off on the new road right through to Levin.

Actually according to various posts on the "Traffic Updates - Horowhenua Kapiti Wellington" Facebook group, it was like that all the way up to Bulls...

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#3014469 28-Dec-2022 09:41

Auckland was the same yesterday.

We drove Napier to Auckland from 9am yesterday - road was fine going our way - there was a bit of a slowdown going into Tirau.

The other direction, however, was a different story. Queue into Tirau from Cambridge was about 3-4km, the queues on the passing lanes just before the turnoff from SH1 to SH29 (Piarere) to Tauranga were about 1km long and the queue geting OFF the waikato expressway where it ends at Cambridge went all the way back to to the SH1B interchange (about 5km). The Auckland Motorway was jjust as bad between Manukau and Drury going south.

Seems everyone left their departures until the same time.

I think we're due in Paraparaumu for an event at the end of January, I'm looking forward to driving that road (so long as the seal is still attached to the surface ;))

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#3020409 12-Jan-2023 12:11

martyyn: Spoke too soon.

Clearly the entire Wellington population decided today was the day they would go on holiday.

If you're still in Wellington, stay there. If you're already in the road, turn around.

Traffic is pretty much at a standstill from south of the Ōtaki turn off on the new road right through to Levin.

Went on this day and sounded like we left early enough that we just missed this. We live in Wellington and Mother-in-law lives in Waikanae so usual routine is to do Xmas at Waikanae then drive north to see my parents (Waikato) on 27th. Did that this time and breezed through the new road, though it did slow down a bit when it went back to one lane further up but nothing like previous years when it could take 90+ minutes just to get from Waikanae to Otaki. Saw on the Facebook updates that the big hold up happened a bit later after we were through. The bit between Sanson and Bulls was a bit slow as usual but otherwise only really bad bit on the trip that day was for some reason the last 10km into Taihape took 45 minutes. Otherwise pretty smooth the whole way.

Coming back it was a joy to drive straight through rather than the usual standstill through Otaki.

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#3020453 12-Jan-2023 13:55

invisibleman18:

For some reason the last 10km into Taihape took 45 minutes. Otherwise pretty smooth the whole way.

Thats unusual I've been through Taihape countless times and never seen congestion. I wonder what happened.

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#3020473 12-Jan-2023 14:40

Yeah never had an issue there any other time. Didn't seem to be any accident or anything, was just crawling until you got through the main street.

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