Kiwithrottlejockey
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« Reply #25 on: August 19, 2011, 04:15:12 pm » |
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Meanwhile, the Pahiatua Track will get hammered to bits again by State Highway traffic.
Tararua District Council have been trying for years to persuade New Zealand Land Transport Agency to take over the road and designate it a State Highway, but NZLTA refuse to do so. Which means that every time NZLTA are unable to keep SH3 through the Manawatu Gorge open, both the Pahiatua Track and the Saddle Road get hammered by heavy vehicles and as NZLTA only pay a partial subsidy, Tararua District Council ratepayers are left with a huge percentage of the cost of repairing the damage.
I reckon Tararua District Council should put severe weight restrictions on both the Pahiatua Track and the Saddle Road, effectively blocking heavy vehicles from using them. This would result in two things....those roads would no longer be hammered to bits by heavy trucks every time SH5 through the Manawatu Gorge closes; and the resultant “squealing like stuck pigs” from the truckies would force NZLTA's hands, because things would start to become extremely political.
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