Thread: Component shortage

Originally Posted by TeRei

Can remember the old Sika Show. Rock up and buy heaps of components. Needed arms like a gorilla to walk out with your purchases but is surely made the journey to Taupo worth while. But bad news Land Transport are mandating a 80km speed limit for the whole of Taupo road.It took them over 40 years to rectify their moronic decision to change the give way rule in 1974. You wonder what those clowns are on and do all day. FITH.

I don't get why they are making it 80kph.
The road from Tokoroa to Turangi is an excellent road, had heaps of work done to it over the years.
Other than the very narrow section after Taupo there is no reason for that road not to be 100kph.

This country is going to shit slowly but surely.

Originally Posted by Beetroot

I don't get why they are making it 80kph.
The road from Tokoroa to Turangi is an excellent road, had heaps of work done to it over the years.
Other than the very narrow section after Taupo there is no reason for that road not to be 100kph.

This country is going to shit slowly but surely.

Money and the saving of it, very few of these reduced speed limits that are coming in all around the place are about safety. It's about the lack of investment in our roads which is making them unsafe. They don't have the money to maintain the roads at the current speed limit so its cheaper and easier to just reduce it.

Originally Posted by Beetroot

I don't get why they are making it 80kph.
The road from Tokoroa to Turangi is an excellent road, had heaps of work done to it over the years.
Other than the very narrow section after Taupo there is no reason for that road not to be 100kph.

This country is going to shit slowly but surely.

The cambers and road layout between SH1 you mention might be correct, but the surface is far substandard and thats coming as a truckie doing up to 40 runs a week on that section of road
SH3 down to the Naki is the same its rattle shake bang and roll.
the pressure waves are the worst, potholes filled with hot or cold mix so they blend in the dark/shadows and when hit they will just heave a 50ton unit over the road.
some of the are so bad we P1 message them