14 April 2005

Shoot the Surveyors

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Dissing Canberra roads is in and I got a stretch that could do with a few roundabouts.

William Hovell drive. You know what I’m talking about. On the way to Civic, where you get stuck on the way behind some 60 kay mother f*cker in a 82 model Laser who miraculously speeds up to 110 when he hits the overtaking lane before the Coppins Crossing turn off. You know what amazes me is if I was to drag him out of his car at the lights and smash his head against the bonnet of his car throw him into the light poles a few times and maybe drag his ravaged bleeding flesh through the gravel then take him into the paddock and stash his fading carcass up a cows rear end, I’d be the one getting arrested for Road Rage! Is there no Justice?

*breath*

But I digress.

The situation is, the overtaking lane merges into single lane to make room for the Coppins Crossing turnoff then back to double lane for the lights then back to single lane for the mergers from Hawker then back to double lane.

Who designed this debacle? They couldn’t afford the extra 50 meteres of paddock it would take to make it dual lane all the way? They couldn’t even extend the road back down the hill in the opposite direction to prevent another dual to single to double fiasco. Not to mention the gits who pull out of Coppins Crossing and go ‘just’ fast enough to make the change to single lane but not so fast that you don’t have to slam the brakes back down to 60.

This stretch could use a roundabout. Right on the junction into Coppins Crossing, blocking it off entirely. Problem fucking fixed, give the actual traffic back to the lanes it needs.

But it’s not going to happen, so I’ll just have to send in Davey to lay out some ownage on these inconsiderate drivers. So until you get some driving lessons, be warned:

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Random,
Never underestimate the breadth of stupidity in Government planning….

@Random, you made my day.

@Bassman, thanks for widening the base of stupidity underneath these planning decisions. My condolences to your bank account.

Frikking pollies.

Perhaps we could have a scheme where Known Good Drivers can be issued with cars that have at least 300kW so overtaking slowpokes and getting away from idiots can be done with considerable pace, leaving the bad drivers to slug it out amongst themselves 🙂

We’ve already got something similar, it’s called a motorcycle licence.

There’s a process of continuous assessment, if you drive badly you die.

dunno random, I suspect the git has forgotten more hasselhof than you can remember.

Hehe, loving the Hasselhoff pictures! You really have to post this one at some point. This calendar might come in handy too…

Random,
“Who designed this debacle? They couldn’t afford the extra 50 meteres of paddock it would take to make it dual lane all the way?”
As a member of one of the familys that owns some of the paddocks, I can tell you that the government doesn’t pay anything to the farmers. They just reclaim the land as they please.

jazz, thats why threeze was venting, not actually performing said actions.

Threeze,

Not too many police officers would disagree with me that a cause of accidents is also agressive drivers. nothing at all to do with ramming the stupid bitch off the road causing her korean shitbox to explode and cook her alive

Jazz,

My comments informing a driver how to overtake are why we have car accidents? I thought accidents were caused because of inattention, tiredness, lack of thought, lack of action and a bad attitude.

I think my attitude is healthy, I got my rant off my chest, I got to calm down about it and I because of that I didn’t ram the stupid bitch off the road causing her korean shitbox to explode and cook her alive.

Evictor – Have you considered that some of those drivers you were ‘cutting off’ were going to o’connor anyway?

on the other hand, the exemplary behaviour extolled by the 14 posters before me is why people end up in a- car accidents and b- court facing charges for road rage.

Evictor, I love you.

Re: Bad drivers.
Especially love the pricks who, on Barry Drive heading to Belconnen in peak hour after work, decide to overtake everyone from the LEFT hand lane then, just as they panic and realise that the lane actually takes them to O’Connor, cut into traffic without looking, jamming on the breaks to avoid ramming Nanna McGee in her volvo.
As soon as I see one of these dudes take off to accelarate round, I take great pleasure in varying my speed so these fuckers get stuck and can’t get back into the Belconnen bound lanes. I’ve got three into O’Connor this week. Brings me no end of cheer on an otherwise dull drive home.

The Evictor

im not even going to start on things people do on the road that piss me off.

mainly because I’m equally guilty of doing most of them.

Except the whole “driving below the speed limit” one, or the “driving AT or below the speed limit in the right hand lane”.. I don’t care if you want to turn right 500Metres down the road. STAY FUCKEN LEFT so I can speed if I so choose, with somewhat less life-endangering.
its NOT your right or responsibility to make me drive at the speed limit.

Marco, I would prefer known good drivers to be given tanks to blow 300kw cars and their incessant techno blaring off the road. And anyone whos hair is in those annoying multi-bleached mohawks things, dickheads.

No Marco. You see the problem people have in canberra is that they dont like being overtaken. Believe me, I ride a motorbike and at least once a day some git wants to play stupid games merely because Ive overtaken them.
I have no idea how it affects them that I whiz past and go on my merry way, but somehow it DOES affect them and they feel the need to hunt me down and chastise/abuse/run-me-off-the-road for it.

Perhaps we could have a scheme where Known Good Drivers can be issued with cars that have at least 300kW so overtaking slowpokes and getting away from idiots can be done with considerable pace, leaving the bad drivers to slug it out amongst themselves 🙂

@Threeze, right on!

i maintain that all road laws should be repealed.

let mayhem reign for awhile. as chairman mao says – from chaos comes order.

i drive down that road every morning as well. i have no issue with the 60k driving goons, i just wish they would learn to MERGE and not fight to be first over the LANE marker.

Also, to ms green festiva driver this morning, if you are going to pull out in front of me to overtake the car in front of you, please do the following:
1. indicate
2. look behind you
3. not be going 10kms slower than me
4. accelerate
5. actually overtake the camry

thanks.

a) Ah yes, I got one of those last night as well.

b) I think it is an ‘anti-comment-spamming’ feature of WordPress

b) I resent the implication that I am not a faceless goon!

Mr git, some screen popped up when I putting in my comment. That question was aimed at Che, JB or one of the faceless goons at this fine site.

Yep, drive that way every morning and night. Oh for the one lane to be turned into two.

I’ve found leaving at 0715 every morning ensures that you don’t get stuck behind a car doing 60 clicks and then suddenly zipping up to 110 clicks when it hits the double lane.

Then again, the government can’t even build a new road so what hope for another lane? I would suggest absolutely none whatsoever….

cheers

I’ll answer your question with a question.

What the hell are you talking about?

Whats this ‘slow down cowboy’ wank boys?

I too drive along this road, and I find it perplexing, but I have a sneaky feeling that the cost to expand the part of the orad you are talking about is prohibitive. My suggestion would be to take it easy and eat a piece of fruit while stuck behind the inept folks from Charnwood who cant drive or afford a car that can travel at appropriate speeds.

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