Re: ‘Letting every car in grinds my gears' (The Weekend Sun, April 8).
As I'm also a user of State Highway 2 heading into town each morning I get to watch how many cars are continuously let in at Te Puna Station Rd.
They seem to assume that they have a right to merge after each vehicle. Some mornings it takes me 45 minutes from Te Puna to Cameron Rd. A normal off-peak trip takes 10 minutes max.
This morning I witnessed a truck letting in six off Te Puna Station Rd – get real we don't live in Auckland. But we now have a lot more users of that road that come from Auckland because of urban sprawl so our road usage has increased dramatically.
I have two solutions to solve the problem of the morning congestion.
1. Adopt a system that only allows one vehicle to merge after the eighth vehicle
2. Put in an amber/green light like on the motor ways in Auckland that allows merging traffic.
N Moloney, Te Puna
Posted: 09:40am Fri 15 Apr, 2016
Why not try merging after eight
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Rat Runners
Posted on 15-04-2016 11:56 | By Steves
Living on Snodgrass Road you see every morning cars that have turned off the highway heading to Station Rd to be let in , avoiding the queue and slowing the traffic. These are RAT RUNNERS dont let them in!!
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