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| Thread ID: 116936 | 2011-03-26 05:59:00 | Bet this would never happen in NZ.. | paulw (1826) | PC World Chat |
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| 1189573 | 2011-03-26 05:59:00 | From the NZ Herald yesterday. The Japanese don't mess around.. www.nzherald.co.nz I bet in CHCH it would take about 3 months to do a basic repair and it would have road cones and a 30K speed limit and at the end of 8 months it may get sealed and still have road cones all around it and at 12 months it may be open to full speed traffic. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1189574 | 2011-03-26 06:10:00 | for us, state of emergency has been extended for the foreseeable future :D and we are gonna cut kiwisaver, wff, everything is on the table |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1189575 | 2011-03-26 06:11:00 | Actually you would be wrong I took a Walk down the badly damaged Anzac Drive (busy main arterial kind of road) in CHCH 3 days after the September quake. The council already had a large grader removing the surface and filling holes. Within 7 days (from memory) it was fully resealed and cars driving down it as far as breezes RD. I was somewhat amazed. No Camera crew or media, no fuss. Went back and copied this out of another forum exactly the same article posted and how long in NZ. One response to the latests quake... ""Hills road in Christchurch was owned quite badly. It was closed, ripped apart, re-shingled, re-sealed and re-opened within 4 days"" |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 1189576 | 2011-03-26 06:27:00 | Have to agree with you Battleneter2, they have made very rapid progress in some parts of Christchurch. They wasted no time in removing 99% of the sand and mud. In some places though, nothing has been done other than put up cones, I know of several holes in the road that are protected by cones, some drunk will remove the cone and a poor cyclist or motor cycle will bury themselves in it. A few shovel loads of shingle would solve the problem. But credit where credit is deserved.........they have moved very fast this time compared to Sept in getting things on the move, hopefully they will keep up the steady work. |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 1189577 | 2011-03-26 08:31:00 | The japs probaly dont have the Resource Management Act and can just fix the road | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1189578 | 2011-03-26 10:29:00 | Amount of posts I have read on various forums about this road rebuild and comparing it to Christchurch the underlying theme seems to be a negative kiwi attitude of not bothering to look at what has be done. Something the media is just as guilty for not reporting. Quite overlooked the fact that the Japs have not been able to put a lid on the nuclear reactor yet. That section of road was not Tsunami affected or like Christchurch floating on porridge. An easy fix even a New Zealand contractor would be capable of. |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1189579 | 2011-03-26 19:53:00 | Amount of posts I have read on various forums about this road rebuild and comparing it to Christchurch the underlying theme seems to be a negative kiwi attitude of not bothering to look at what has be done. Something the media is just as guilty for not reporting. Its one of the things I have noticed about Kiwis, we like to put ourselves down, even when we do stuff really well. To add its astonishing how quickly power and water have been restored to most, I had believed a few more months to get to this point. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 1189580 | 2011-03-27 02:48:00 | From the NZ Herald yesterday. The Japanese don't mess around.. www.nzherald.co.nz I bet in CHCH it would take about 3 months to do a basic repair and it would have road cones and a 30K speed limit and at the end of 8 months it may get sealed and still have road cones all around it and at 12 months it may be open to full speed traffic. Cheeky bast**d, do the maths. for starters 127mil over 4mil. then look at the area of land on shore. We can't move move for repair people. Don't forget Christchurch was built on a swamp and how the h e l l the Environment Court allowed the go ahead in Bexley to be built on, we will never know, probably $$$$$$$ in somebodies pocket. ECAN had squashed it initially, but they have been disbanded and run by a Commissioner now, lol. Lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1189581 | 2011-03-27 03:30:00 | ... and we are gonna cut kiwisaver, wff, everything is on the table Yes, everything except politicians' pay & allowances packet. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1189582 | 2011-03-27 06:29:00 | It's good to see that CHCH's roading is getting repaired so fast. Now shall we take bets on how long to rebuild the city center?? | paulw (1826) | ||
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