Me Vs Council

[ianjb]

I build roads for a living, and I am also a driving instructor, as I stated before its legal and within regulations, bit like driving on a flooded road and hitting the gutter, if the road was flooded you should drive to the conditions, which in this case would be traveling at a slow enough speed that if you hit a obstacle you would be traveling slow enough to do minimal damage, i.e damage to front bar, but as you have done damage to the front and rear tyre they will say you were traveling to fast for the conditions, you have stated the road was flooded, so by rights you should have been negotiating the road at walking pace.

This is a big problem with licensing, they teach people to drive in good conditions, but what about floods, emergency stops, and other adverse conditions, you need to be able to read the road in all conditions, saying that you didn't see it doesn't cut the mustard.

Have you driven this road before ?

I'm not taking the piss, I have to investigate things like this for work, as would someone from the council.

yes i have. I lived on this street (20 years ago). But this addition seems to be more recent

Looks like I'm not gonna bother with the hassles TBH.

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Edited November 24, 2011 by ianjb

[badhairdave]

Treat it as a blessing in disguise, replace the Advantis with something good.

Try it on, you might get lucky.

I've seen it from both sides, got shafted both times....

1st time i damaged a shock due to a massive pothole on an on ramp onto the F5, complained to RTA, RTA said it was the M5 operators problem, M5 operators said it had nothing to do with their bit of road, RTA didn't care, i got nowhere. Funnily enough it was fixed within 24hr's.

2nd time doing a road widening as i work for a civil contractor, road was finished, line marked and last thing we had to put in a pedestrian island within the line marked island (i specifically left it until after the linemarking as i know drivers are idiots so wanted to make it pretty obvious). The night after we poured it but before we could get the signs on it it was hit by some idiot who destroyed a wheel and tyre. Note that they were over a metre outside the lane to hit it like they did. They claimed RTA was at fault, RTA fingered us as the contractor because there was no sign, we told her she was outside the lane so tough shit, she went back to RTA, RTA threatened to pull our accreditation, we got shafted...

From your second picture there it looks like there is a socket for a sign at the bottom end? I would imagine there should be one at the other end too but it's been hit so many times that the socket is gone, line marking obscured and it also crosses the edge of the 50. I disagree with mlr on this one. There's also plenty of evidence there that people are constantly hitting it yet nothing has been done about it.Council is technically negligent.

Threats of legal action go a long way. Make threats then lawyer up if needed but i suspect they would know they are boned if you took it further and pay for the damage.

[DVS JEZ]

According to RTA specs, it should be painted in White reflective paint, and have narrow keep left signs at each end facing oncoming traffic. Amber reflectors along the sides. And water reliefs every 3m from memory.

The centre lines should have lead on's and off's tapering from atleast 3m from the island.

But this all depends how long ago the medium strip was built.

And it may be a council road? Which council have different specs.

And u are correct, it would have been built to prevent people crossing the road to drive into and out of the childcare centre.

[RB25PWR]

That's on Excelsior ave in Castle Hill, right? So you turned right onto Excelsior from Old Northern rd? Man if you hit that then you were crossing over the double lines. No offence but unless you were being a dickhead or REALLY tired or something I just don't see why you would hit it. To be honest that's the first thing I see when I come around that corner... I drive on that road almost everyday.