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Thread ID: 95827	2008-12-18 03:21:00	New Toll Road	Roscoe (6288)	PC World Chat

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730582	2008-12-19 12:50:00	yes/no. not bad if you know the shortcut through around the forest. however its a crap road, windy, rough and slow. off camber corners, big pot holes etc. its a backroad alright. you have to remember it lost its state highway status, then local council did a budget tarseal job on it which got the traffic numbers up which then put it back into transits hand and reinstated as a state highway. so basically transit fobbed off the tarseal job to the local council to pay for, so we end up with a highway with a quick and dirty seal job with all the bad corners etc. and now they try and divert large amounts of traffic down it. but then again while your stuck crawling its more scenic than sh1 which makes it more enjoyable ;) edit: that divert from silvadale/northshore etc is just a transit prank. SH16 is really good coming from northwestern motorway, not to bad if you coming from south of auckland, go down the northwestern, cut through to sh16, cruise down sh16, then all join the traffic jam at wellsford. Lol you must be joking. You claim to be from north and you reckon that SH 16 has a shoddy seal job? Where in the "winterless north" are you from? The north shore? SH 16 is a top notch road compared to most northland roads. Hell, the ****er's sealed for Christ's sake.	roddy_boy (4115)
730583	2008-12-21 01:11:00	We have had a Toll on the Auckland Harbour Bridge and also the Tauranga to Mt Maunganui bridge and despite initial complaints and moans it still got well used. I have driven on most Toll Roads all over Europe and they are great, there is an alternative rout to all and there will always be the stubborn few that use the Alternative, but the Toll roads generate enough money to keep them well maintained plus more.	Bantu (52)
730584	2008-12-21 04:49:00	I have driven on most Toll Roads all over Europe and they are great, there is an alternative rout to all and there will always be the stubborn few that use the Alternative, but the Toll roads generate enough money to keep them well maintained plus more. I suspect that the "plus more" is that this is the lining of the toll companies pockets for years to come, way beyound when the toll road is paid for..	paulw (1826)
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