Southbound off-ramp at Peka Peka will be CLOSED from 9am on Tuesday 15 November
Kia ora Kāpiti, our friends at Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency Wellington have let us know that the southbound off-ramp at Peka Peka will be CLOSED from 9am on Tuesday 15 November to late afternoon on Wednesday 16 November for Peka Peka to Ōtaki expressway tie-in works.
Southbound road users, please detour via the Waikanae interchange. These works are weather dependent and may be cancelled at short notice. Thank you for your patience while these works take place and please drive with care.
Driven On The Akatarawa Rd Lately?
If so, its good to know you are still alive and reading this.
We have a function to go to over Christmas up that way and having heard a few hairy stories about the road, I went up there on Thursday to check it out. The road's ok, narrow and winding, but not much worse than a Wellington hill suburb. What was pretty scary was the behavior of other drivers. Three vehicles heading the other way at speed would have crashed into me if I hadn't been pulled off the road. I had pulled in to check the address when a truck came flying past, taking up all of the narrow road at speed. There is no way the driver would have been able to stop had they come around the corner immediately in front of me. The other two drivers came hurtling past as I had turned in to turn around and come back down the hill. They were also driving at speed and taking up most of the road. Coming back down I passed another car coming up and estimate that the safe speed to pass another car was about 30-35 kms.p.h. So, now we're thinking, do we go to the function or not.? Feels a bit like we're taking our life in our hands going up there. Drivers appear to be overconfident, and they are courting serious injury.
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