Only in New Zealand: Building roads 1km a year!
I’ve lived in this house for 4 years now – and since them, or road has being a semi-constant construction site as the road crews “improve” the road. It’s 3 km long, and with very little traffic on it – it being a dead end. (It ends in a river as it happens).
And when I say semi-constant – it goes like this:
- Trucks turn up and rip up the road or the sides of the road for about 300 yards..
- Trucks go away.
- Months go by.
- Trucks come back and dump a load of gravel on the road which we then have to navigate for month without skidding off into the fields.
- Trucks go away.
- Months go by.
- Trucks come back and seal the road.
- Calm descends till the next time.
So it was with some amusement – but unfortunately not great surprise to read in the local rag a few weeks ago that the mayor of south Wairarapa says:
with around 300 kilometres of gravel roads in the district, there has been an ongoing programme of trying to seal around a kilometre a year.
I kid you not – 300 years to seal all the gravel roads in the Wairarapa!
I wouldn’t mind – but there’s actually nothing wrong with our road – it’s not a gravel road – so why are they “improving” it (actually making a right bloody mess of it in fact).
The mind boggles.
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