WARNING hawksbury council roads!!

[twowheeldan]

TAKE CARE ON RICHMOND ROADS THAT HAVE BEEN RESURFACED!!!!

Hi guys i live in richmond and just thought i should let everyone know

Hawksbury Council is in the process of re-taring some of richmonds roads however it is using the most useless method possible

they put the tar base down then simply pour the gravel/blue metal over the top, push it down and done..........

BUT, your are left with about 3-4mm of gravel all over the road which they don't clean up.
they did my street and after calling them to query how safe it was for bikes i was told it was safe for cars and it was my choice to ride a motorcycle!! when i asked for his personal name and contact so i could send any repair bill his way he agreed to get a street sweeper to come by. but thats it!!!

they have now done more streets and its as slippery as all hell so please be careful guys and if you've got a spare 5mins give hawksbury council a call and let them know how you feel.

cheers daniel

Hawksbury council (02) 4560 4444
just the general number so you have to get tranfserred to the right person.

richmond streets affected:

gibson street
dight street
Bourke street
West market street

and they are just the ones i know but i haven't been right around richmond

anyone else who knows some post up!!!

[jasonbw]

good on you for calling them (and telling us), they did the same in Wollongong. It sucks, dangerous!

What a response.. "your choice to ride a mc" !!!

[Heidi1]

HANG ON A SEC!! That's just been done to the road near my house and I figured they were only half finished!!! GTFOOH!!

If that is what they are doing, they can get lost! I have to slow down to crawl speed to get around the corner because of all the loose gravel.

Time for a stern note methinks!

What if this is the new way of fixing roads and it is all over NSW and ACT? There will be nowhere safe to ride because you don't know you are going to hit this stuff until you are half-way through a corner. Keep an eye out, let's see how wide-spread it is.

[twowheeldan]

HANG ON A SEC!! That's just been done to the road near my house and I figured they were only half finished!!! GTFOOH!!


nope can assure you my street has been like this for couple of months now!!

we need people to flood the council with complaints, after seeing another street done today i'll be calling them again tomorrow!!!:storm::storm:

[Mrs Mozz]

HANG ON A SEC!!
What if this is the new way of fixing roads and it is all over NSW and ACT? There will be nowhere safe to ride because you don't know you are going to hit this stuff until you are half-way through a corner. Keep an eye out, let's see how wide-spread it is.

Thats exactly what happened to me about six months ago on the oxley, right hander coverd in half an inch of gravel:cursing::cursing:nice slide broke my bike:( but not myself:ayyy:

[POLA]

List the Phone number and a few streets and then we can all give them the message that there are a F**ken lot of People that choose to ride motorcycles

[1down5up]

no get acurrent affair on to it nothing get done faster than when the tv gets involved ....
it use to be. that a street sweeper cleans the extra stones. a few days after its done .
also it only lasts a few years before ya get car wheel tracks . like a dirt road and they gotta do it again... the stuff is crap

[Birdman45]

They won't give a flying fuk. The ONLY reason they do it is to spend the money they are given each year. Councils work on a budget and if they don't spend their allocation for a given year, they don't get the same amount next year....... how the fuk that works is beyond me, makes for senseless waste of shit like this. After 6 months or so depending on how busy the street is, it'll pack down to "rideable" and so they couldn't give a toss. If they actually wanted to repair the road they'd do it properly, but they don't, they're just spending money. When you combine that with the post above, they need to do it again later, spending more money, hence why in a street nobody generally cares about, they don't either coz it's just setting themselves up for future spending.

[dilbee]

i say call these bastrads and have the call recorded. Go give that to a current affair shows and see what might happen then.

[twowheeldan]

Hawksbury council (02) 4560 4444
just the general number so you have to get tranfserred to the right person.

richmond streets affected:

gibson street
dight street
Bourke street
West market street

and they are just the ones i know but i haven't been right around richmond

anyone else who knows some post up!!!:ayyy:

[dilbee]

you know what shits me with councils when they do roads too. Here in Penrith they do some quiet street that dont get much traffic and these streets seem to fine b4 and now have a even better surface. But yet on the main roads that are shocking and yet nothing is done.:cursing:
I found out something today with loads that we have comaped to the US. The US have a load of 18tonne while our trucks carry between 24 - 26 tonne.
Our govts are just fucked in the head...:cursing::cursing::cursing:

[Ed_GSXR]

they did my street and after calling them to query how safe it was for bikes i was told it was safe for cars and it was my choice to ride a motorcycle!!

What sort of fucktard way of thinking is that? :cursing::cursing:

[twowheeldan]

yeah i was tempted to go a cement a big barrier infront of his car but leave a 1 foot gaps and say "well a bike will fit through??? you choose to drive a car!!"

[Johnny]

Old rd was done in the same fashion 4 odd yrs ago. It caused many accidents, some fatalities even, but they fixed it, they dropped the speed limit to 60, that didnt work either, but made them enough money to start fixing sections of it properly, years later ofcourse :lmao:

[Birdman45]

yeah i was tempted to go a cement a big barrier infront of his car but leave a 1 foot gaps and say "well a bike will fit through??? you choose to drive a car!!"

That is gold, DO IT. To anyone, when you get complaints made, then quote that.... hahaha I love it

[Turtle]

Ooohhhhh....diesel in the rain = BAD....

[Wombat]

i bet none of the bastarts in the council ride bikes,

[rats666]

its the same down here in the Shoalhaven, council 'patch repairs' corners and leaves sh$t everywhere. Love putting the 4 million signs up and the 40kph signs then sit around ontheir fat f*&king ass' whilst holding up traffic. Cant wait for the ICAC to go through em like a dose of salts... sack the F*^kn lot em. :storm:

[spanky158]

The road coming up out of wisemans was done like that before Christmas. One week I ride through there and it is dirt, with short notice. The next week, the dirt rd sign is gone, and there is loose gravel everywhere. My missus drove through there on the way to the rats xmas party, and some guy in a car had just had a massive prang cause he lost control on the loose stuff, doesn't just affect bikes....

Same council too...

[muzz]

hmmmmmmm
thats how they do the roads in new zealand
i tell you its no good when your bike picks up a big clump of tar and rocks and proceeds to tear you rear hugger off

[twowheeldan]

yeah and the worst part is it isn't just patches on the road.......

its the WHOLE road!!! full length!!!

those idiots....

[SLAC]

hmmmmmmm
thats how they do the roads in new zealand
i tell you its no good when your bike picks up a big clump of tar and rocks and proceeds to tear you rear hugger off

Thats ok though, its in NZ:lmao: