#roading — Public Fediverse posts
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"In the end of an era for New Zealand land transport, the last stretch of metal road in the country's State Highway network has been tarsealed."
#RobinMartin, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542867/tarsealing-of-tangarakau-gorge-marks-end-of-an-era
Reminds me of reading an article about the last 'party line' (shared copper phone line) in Aotearoa being replaced with household landlines;
25 years later they're in terminal decline;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/515424/time-running-out-for-nz-s-copper-phone-network
A sign of things to come?
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@airshipper
> we don’t have a big enough population to afford to maintain so many kms of safe state highwaysHighways that seem to need constant patching. Unlike well-built rails.
Highways made of bitumen. Which is a byproduct of oil refining. As we learned when there was that fuss about the bitumen from Marsden Point being better than the imported stuff.
So like fossil fuels, roads aren't actually sustainable. Something we need to transition away from.
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Winston First have been spreading a story that the poor state of our roads was caused by a change to importing road bitumen, instead of producing it locally at Marsden Point. All because of the last Labour government and those bloody greenies;
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/08/nz-firsts-doomed-deal-to-reopen-marsden-point-refinery/A few points on that.
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