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#171019 2-Apr-2015 09:00

The craziness starts today, to those driving this weekend, take care keep left. Slow down and get there sooner.

Have a great Easter folks.

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#1275865 2-Apr-2015 09:01

The craziness never stops...!

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#1275871 2-Apr-2015 09:04

Geektastic: The craziness never stops...!

good point

maybe should read the 'insane craziness'

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#1275875 2-Apr-2015 09:09

Im not driving anywhere. Probably not even down the road for food. Filling the fridge tonight with BBQ goods and topping up the booze supplies and thats me for the weekend ;)

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#1275882 2-Apr-2015 09:25

Geez lucky I read this, I woke up this morning and thought, Easter, Happy Birthday Jesus, and then decided I would have a few beers and drive over the Rimutakas, in a careless manner, on the right hand side of the road faster than is safe, but now, I am conflicted.

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#1275883 2-Apr-2015 09:27

kiwitrc: Geez lucky I read this, I woke up this morning and thought Happy Birthday Jesus for Easter, and then decided I would have a few beers and drive over the Rimutakas, in a careless manner, on the right hand side of the road faster than is safe, but now, I am conflicted.

I am sorry I conflicted you

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#1275887 2-Apr-2015 09:31

xpd: Im not driving anywhere. Probably not even down the road for food. Filling the fridge tonight with BBQ goods and topping up the booze supplies and thats me for the weekend ;)

We try and avoid road travel at Easter, if we go away we let AirNZ do the work.

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#1275890 2-Apr-2015 09:41

Here's why I am not homesick ............ a headline from one of the UK Dailies

"Easter Travel Chaos as 16 Million Cars set to plough through the rain". Many Kiwis do not know how well off we are over here. Regardless, I tend to stay off the roads at holiday times .......... too many people getting frustrated with the 80 - 90 kph brigade.

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#1275894 2-Apr-2015 09:46

DaveB: Here's why I am not homesick ............ a headline from one of the UK Dailies

"Easter Travel Chaos as 16 Million Cars set to plough through the rain". Many Kiwis do not know how well off we are over here. Regardless, I tend to stay off the roads at holiday times .......... too many people getting frustrated with the 80 - 90 kph brigade.

With the traffic density over that time 80-90 is good going.

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#1275895 2-Apr-2015 09:46

DaveB: too many people getting frustrated with the 80 - 90 kph brigade.

And too many of the 80-90 kph brigade.

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#1275932 2-Apr-2015 09:58

I ain't going nowhere this Easter. Keep safe all those who are however. I hope that the road toll won't be too high.

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#1275937 2-Apr-2015 10:14

xpd: Im not driving anywhere. Probably not even down the road for food. Filling the fridge tonight with BBQ goods and topping up the booze supplies and thats me for the weekend ;)

We won't go further than the village for food if we need it and to the market at TK on Sunday if the weather is good (one of the rare opportunities to take our dogs amongst people so they can be fussed over by lots of strangers!).

We were away last weekend house hunting so no desire to do more than stay home.

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#1275966 2-Apr-2015 11:04

the problem with Easter driving is there is the same volumes of traffic as Christmas but it is condensed into a short time frame and with everyone rushing to their destinations to try and maximise their stay then leaving at the last minute to get back, the roads are dangerous and full of crazy people driving crazy.

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#1275973 2-Apr-2015 11:13

DaveB: Here's why I am not homesick ............ a headline from one of the UK Dailies

"Easter Travel Chaos as 16 Million Cars set to plough through the rain". Many Kiwis do not know how well off we are over here. Regardless, I tend to stay off the roads at holiday times .......... too many people getting frustrated with the 80 - 90 kph brigade.

It will be interesting to compare the accident rates though...!

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#1275975 2-Apr-2015 11:15

KiwiNZ: the problem with Easter driving is there is the same volumes of traffic as Christmas but it is condensed into a short time frame and with everyone rushing to their destinations to try and maximise their stay then leaving at the last minute to get back, the roads are dangerous and full of crazy people driving crazy.

Growing up, we never went away at Easter so for me, it is never a time when I 'expect' to be going anywhere in any case. My father was self-employed and did not observe bank holidays or even weekends if he had work to do, so it just never arose.

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#1275979 2-Apr-2015 11:23

Geektastic:
KiwiNZ: the problem with Easter driving is there is the same volumes of traffic as Christmas but it is condensed into a short time frame and with everyone rushing to their destinations to try and maximise their stay then leaving at the last minute to get back, the roads are dangerous and full of crazy people driving crazy.

Growing up, we never went away at Easter so for me, it is never a time when I 'expect' to be going anywhere in any case. My father was self-employed and did not observe bank holidays or even weekends if he had work to do, so it just never arose.

My wife has been away all week so she will spend the weekend catching up on paper work and emails etc etc etc

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