Thread: Bugger the rain

Originally Posted by gonetropo

all those "quality" cold asphalt patches used around christchurch have floated off, its like driving thru craters now..................just hope those bloody cycle lanes got the same treatment

Having begun my working life on a MOW roading gang, I despair at what I see passing for pothole repairs all over NZ. My supervisors would be turning in their graves. I yarned with an older dude breast feeding his shovel on the side of one set of road repairs on Poihipi road, and he commiserated. He said all the old guys who knew what they were doing have retired long ago, and its just the flash harry road construction bosses fixated on minimal costs and maximum profit that rule the roost now. A month ago a Taupo Facebook page warned people heading North to look out for potholes: there was a line of 8 cars, all pulled over changing tyres over a 2km stretch. Low profile tyres make this a very common occurence nowadays