Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
I love the Kapiti expressway, such a stress free driving experience. Just set the cruise control, and sit at 100-ish up to Otaki.
The whole thing. Transmission Gully, Kāpiti bypass, Ōtaki bypass. “Soon” there will be a Levin bypass (if National don’t cancel it to pay for their new roads being funded from money already ringfenced for building and maintaining roads).
There’s a stretch of road between Sanson and Bulls that could do with being 4 lanes, or otherwise avoid having two major roads come together for a few km just to split off again, but other than that travelling from Wellington to New Plymouth is pretty smooth sailing now even at the busiest times of the year.
I have a hard time believing National would cancel a road, especially a project like that, it would go down like a lead balloon amongst their supporters.
We have a few sites in Foxton we service, this new road would mean I can get there in around two hours from Wellington.
I drove from Palmy to Wellington early yesterday morning. Put on cruise control at the start of two lanes north of Ōtaki and didn’t touch the pedals until heading down Ngaranga Gorge (minor adjustments to CC via control buttons).