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Couldn't organise a pissup in a brewery.

Another Wellington resident, Jean Guthrie, said: "I just heard about it on the radio on the way up from Wellington. I was coming in here for a coffee anyway. It would be just easier if you could just drive through and then put the money in a funnel-like tin."

Raewyn Lum of Auckland said she knew a toll had to be paid but found alternatives to the cash kiosk "too hard". She added: "I don't know why we can't just have coin drops."

Anaru Te Maro of Auckland said he thought the road would have toll booths like the Auckland Harbour Bridge once had.

He wondered why people had only three days to pay, because other businesses gave clients 30 days.

What a steaming pile of shit this whole process is proving to be. All the highway has done is move the traffic jam further up the road but since fuck all cars will be getting off to go to Orewa and what ones there are will be replaced by more heading north with population growth and more people excited by the prospect of not having to drive through a town filled by wankers and old people. So essentially nothing has happened.

All they would need is a lane that pulls off to the side, motorists slow down drop off 2 bucks and carry on their merry way. All vehicles that use the road weekly can sort all the automatic payment crap out and drive straight on past.

This is what a real tollgate looks like in Korea.
We don't fuck around in these. Car barely stops, money flies everywhere and the foot goes back on the gas. A vehicle gets processed about every 5-10 seconds.

Labels: incompetence knows no bounds, northern toll road, traffic jams suck dogs balls