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Thread ID: 66587	2006-02-28 09:54:00	Road Tolling, Auckland.. whats your opinion?	Myth (110)	PC World Chat

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434575	2006-03-01 08:26:00	www.pressf1.co.nz	andrew93 (249)
434576	2006-03-01 08:55:00	Heh, Auckland is a little city that was built with so much stupidity that it has big city issues. Tragic. Strange that during the 2 years I spent in Sydney the traffic was worse, yet the people didn't cry about it and try and make the entire country care about their "issue" I think Aucklanders should be made to spend a year in a city that deserves the tag "big", and then a few months in a small provincial town, then perhaps there viewpoint would be enlightened and they could see Auckland for what it really is.	Metla (12)
434577	2006-03-01 09:33:00	for those who dont live in auckland, you really have no idea about traffic. so dont comment. Yes we do. About twice last year I had to wait behind a queue at traffic lights, where there wasn't enough time to clear all the cars waiting. And after a game at Carisbrook the traffic is bumper to bumper.... :D	gibler (49)
434578	2006-03-01 09:43:00	All Auckland needs is a decent ring road system with less junctions/intersections. The present southern motorway has far too many badly designed intersections. Lane filtering jams the place solid. All Auckland motorways are no-where near big enough. All the roadworks, I think, won't make any difference. Traffic lights, I've never seen a place with so many. I used to be able to get from one side of London to the other in the same time as it takes to cross Auckland. As someone said, public transport is a joke. Auckland is really only a tinpot town by international standards. It's been buggered up by greedy councils jamming as many houses as possible in so they can get their sticky fingers on more rates & still deliver no value for money. Now it's too late. I reckon they should pick on another area of NZ with greater land area, access from all sides & expand the place to city proportions. Alternatively, ban all 4wd (nissan patrol sized) from urban roads, they cause a lot of problems. They used to say Volvo drivers were morons.	Phil B (648)
434579	2006-03-01 10:06:00	Strange that during the 2 years I spent in Sydney the traffic was worse, yet the people didn't cry about it and try and make the entire country care about their "issue" Hang on a minute. This thread was raised by a non-Aucklander. The known Aucklanders have displayed their typical non-plussed attitude (as they do with everything else). The non-Aucklanders are bleating about disproportionate funding. And you say the Aucklanders are "crying" about it and making it a national "issue"? That's a bit rich. BTW, what's a national issue? :rolleyes: Pfft, as if we care! :D	andrew93 (249)
434580	2006-03-02 03:33:00	So improve the roads so people can get into Auckland quicker. So more of them will do it. So the roads will be congested. So they'll demand better roads. It's expensive stupidity. London traffic was becoming a disaster. Livingstone brought in a congestion tax, which, according to "everyone" would cause the end of known civilisation. It didn't. :D	Graham L (2)
434581	2006-03-02 04:42:00	Alternatively we could block the roads so that industry can grind to a halt. Brilliant mate!.	Cicero (40)
434582	2006-03-02 19:16:00	Stupid thing is that they could have kept working on the motorways from the 60-70s to today and the costs to repair would not have been so great. The short-sightedness of successive goverments (local and national) have stalled the work from the 80-90's, who only look to the next election. You can't build infrastructure with such short timeframes. Roads, waterworks, etc. have timeframes of many decades or more.	KiwiTT_NZ (233)
434583	2006-03-02 20:16:00	Slightly off topic but here goes anyway Question: Where do you get the best view of Auckland? Answer: In the rearview mirror as you head south over the Bombay Hills. Cheers, Jim	Hhel (8073)
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