Whangarata Road - Not fit for purpose

Allan J Neighbourly Lead from Tuakau

I think I have mentioned this before. Contractors working on behalf of who - Auckland Transport or Waikato Council or Auckland council spend ratepayers money in stalling capital services to and from the Pokeno suburb and the Powered Milk factory HAVE NOT reinstate Whangarata Road in a manner referred to in contracting Industry as acceptable and or Fit for Purpose.
We have been told the heavy transport vehicles are causing the damage. The is completely untrue and the majority of heavy vehicles have been running on 'air bags' for quite some time now.
It is where Contractors dig up sections of the road to thump their services through, they have damaged the substructure of the road at these dig intervals and the subsequent reinstatement is just rocks with overnight compaction thereby leaving the substructure well under par and with a very thin layer of hot bitumen on top which breaks up very quickly allowing rain water to enter the subsoil generating a subsoil failure.
No matter how many layers of hot or coal bitumen on top of the failed area, it will continue to fail AND SPREAD costing additional money for each repair on top of other repairs.
Vehicles drivers are aware of these road failures and dodge them putting themselves all risk of head on collisions.
This is not to mention residence adjacent to Whangarata road being woken up several times during the night hours with empty trucks with trailers bouncing over these road failures with costly botched repairs time and time again.
There is a guy driving around in a Waikato branded vehicle with a spray can of white paint marking the corners of these damaged road areas to be 'FIXED' by generally, the white paint is worn off before it can be fixed.
Rate payers are paying for road works to be carried out in a manner fit for purpose - BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE.
Maybe others would like to join me in this drive. I know the truck owner/drivers are screaming about the road conditions causing damage to the vehicles.