My youngest daughter and I just watched this whole video because we both miss Wellington. We even got excited at seeing Countdown Tawa (we live in the US and she was born in Wellington when we spent a few years back in NZ). Thank you!
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks, it is a nice way to drive into the city, through the hills.
@PP-vv6zn
2 жыл бұрын
Yes me too - been away for too long and was amazing to see. No other landscape like it!
@alhemmings8554
2 жыл бұрын
Missing the Kapiti coast here from the UK as well. I remember taking the beautiful coast road through Pukerua Bay the very first day my family arrived in NZ and driving it many a time. I never thought I'd see TG finished in my lifetime!
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
@@alhemmings8554 It will be a bit of a nicer drive with less traffic. A friend lives in one of the costal villages, he said that the traffic noise has changed, and does not wake him up in the morning now.
@Itzhelmy
2 жыл бұрын
Took our first ride on the highway today as I live in Porirua and all I have to say is this highway is amazing, no more traffic or traffic lights just a smooth consistent drive. The amount of time it took us to get to Paraparaumu was incredible, the accessibility and connections between regions is amazing and makes things so much more convenient. I do have to say that I feel sorry for many businesses along the old state highway as there just isn’t as much traffic for customers, some even prompting to sell. Anyways amazing video, there always very well informative and interesting.👍
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I like to talk about the technical details that I had explained to me by the people working on the project.
@lesmccarthy6914
2 жыл бұрын
Loved this video. A Paraparaumu resident, I drive the Transmission Gully both ways 2 or more times a week. I think the drive is wonderfully scenic and stressless, and in sunny weather truly stunning. Your video captures its charm perfectly. You picked the best weather and your camera wide angle felt inclusive without loss of distant detail. I enjoyed your commentary. Informative and very easy on the ear. Never knew about the radar pods. Sometimes I play the video in a loop silently as background scenery while I'm working at my table. Hope one day you get to video South-North direction. View north from Waitangirua rise overlooking Pauatahanui interchange and beyond is breath taking on a clear day. Cheers.
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, yes, I ought to make a video driving the opposite direction. Thanks for your comments and for watching.
@DaleKiwi
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love the commentary!!! Very informative… as a Kiwi and Wellingtonian whose been living in Perth for the last 26 years, I’m looking forward to my trip back home in October and checking out Transmission Gully out for myself. Thanks for the vid…
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, motorway all the way out to Waikanae now, and the next segment to Otaki, is meant to open in November.
@D0NTREPLY
2 жыл бұрын
this is the coolest looking motorway in the country. looks so peaceful and serene.
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
It's a pretty drive. While driving north, the view through the cutting when you get tot he coast is amazing.
@allyfrasernz
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for this, was just what I was looking for. The commentary was an unexpected and engaging.
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful! I was worried that the commentary might be a bit dry.
@spadgm
2 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to cruising on it when i finally get back for a visit to Wellington after 3 years!
@JohanndeBoer
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Darryl! Great to see the new motorway has opened.
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Yeah, it took a while. It's mostly pretty good, there are a few loose stone chips. I heard one guy got a broken window. The Kapiti Expressway had problems like that too. The Otaki expressway is coming along well, so one day there will be 105 km of separated highway all the way to the north side of Levin.
@ashman167
2 жыл бұрын
Very good. when I come home I will take a drive. Kia ora
@marioneldby1039
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much ..loved it..not likely to do it but would have been great. Thanks again from 2 oldies....
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
@SebastianC701
2 жыл бұрын
We have various speed limits on our roads, ranging from 10 to 110 km/h. There are tow main default speed limits, one for urban areas and one for rural areas. The speed limit on urban roads in towns and cities is 50, where on open roads in rural areas or on the countryside, it's 100. The Waikato Expressway and the Tauranga Eastern Link toll road have the speed limit set to 110 km/h, which is the new speed limit for motorways. Eventually they'll change the speed limit on the motorways in Wellington to 110. Although, they may increase speed limits in NZ up to 130 km/h, because most parts of Europe have roads going at 130. There are a few roads that go at 130 in Australia, but they may increase the speed limit to 160 km/h for some roads in Australia.
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
You are very optimistic about the speed limits. The "they" want to keep working toward "zero" road toll. So while some highways may support 110km speed limits. Most of the Wellington urban motorways will not, because they are two narrow and windy. It is possible that AI regulated driving will allow people to drive faster than their capability and ability safely. But that will be a while yet, but the future often arrives sooner than people expect. Those fast European motorway are in places where drivers are disciplined and have good cars. If the energy (fuel) situation keeps getting worse, they will drop the speed limits to 90, that will save about 20% of fuel loss in acceleration, which helps in hilly and windy places.
@juliaforsyth8332
2 жыл бұрын
Is there still meatworks operating at Ngauranga? That could be where the truck is going.
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
I think you could be right.
@Viagra_risk_PERMANENT_insomnia
2 жыл бұрын
When you add a dwang into a wall, you create a thermal bridge that lets more heat escape. You get no significant improvement to the structural performance of the wall. The acoustics are worse.
@Viagra_risk_PERMANENT_insomnia
2 жыл бұрын
NZS 3604:2011 Timber-framed buildings has never prescribed use of full-depth dwangs. The 1978, 1981, 1984 and 1990 editions of NZS 3604 stipulated minimum dimensions of 50 × 50 mm or 75 × 40 mm.
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
That statement is conditional on whether the air in the cavity has worse radiative or conductive loss. I was in a house one cold night and looked at the ceiling and saw condensation on the ceiling. I realised that the condensation had a pattern. The pattern was the timber that the gib board was fixed to. Where the timber backed the ceiling there was no condensation. The timber was a better insulator than the open cavity with no insulation. It was an old 1960s house. Wood is generally a good insulator, a closed cavity of air is a fair insulator. On that cold night the steel roof and sheet of paper up there did not do much, there was a lot of radiative and conductive loss on the top side of the gib. A solid wood ceiling four inches thick, would be a fine insulator. That is why log cabins work, the walls have a fairly low conductive nature, but also reasonable thermal mass.
@Viagra_risk_PERMANENT_insomnia
2 жыл бұрын
@@DarrylTalks Yes very true, my comment is more for a timber framed wall with pink batts. But of more concern is the money being wasted on over sized dwangs that are not needed.
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
I am sure there is some way to work out optimal configurations, if you are creating the strongest thing per volume then a geodesic design, but it it's hard to fit furniture in domes and they look weird. I think that it would be cheaper to build a large greenhouse and then build houses in the greenhouses in cold and temperate climates. I alway find it weird how long people spend on finishing houses when they are built. I don't know why people are so pedantic on having apparently seamless walls, all that plastering and painting. It's almost is if 20 or 30% of the build of a house goes into "finishings" I would rather have a maintainable house with removable panes to get at wires and plumbing, than a sterile white cube interior and complex cladding on the outside that look amazing for the five hours most people look at them per year. I see a house as a machine that people live in, I used to live in a ship. People cannot easily imagine living in anything other than a cartoon of an ideal house.
@clydesimpson1462
2 жыл бұрын
I prefer to use nogs
@johnzmuzic
2 жыл бұрын
55 mph is about 88 kph , 100 kph about 62 mph .
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, my maths needed a check in that one.
@clydesimpson1462
2 жыл бұрын
The Ardern led government should show respect to the traditional owners of the land and give this freeway a beautiful Maori name.
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
That's really a very good idea, "transmission gully" is not good in any way at all.
@Itzhelmy
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed, they really should have named it as soon as they started building it before people starting getting attached to the name of “transmission gully” I heard they will be renaming it to a beautiful Maori name and adding some local iwi carvings along the highway which will be amazing.
@2nguyen19
2 жыл бұрын
Does the Ardern led government have to do it for them? Can't they do it themselves? Are they stupid?
@daddybob6096
2 жыл бұрын
@clyde simpson. Really, Why, No one owns the land, we are all immigrants, Maori too. God made this planet for all of us.
@daddybob6096
2 жыл бұрын
@@Itzhelmy Amazing for who, Wilhelm? I'm not Maori, and 74% of the citizens in this country are of my ethnicity. Maori were immigrants here too, just like when the Poms came here later in the 1800's. Maori didn't design this magnificent highway, they might have worked on it, but we all know it was designed by New Zealand engineers, don't we? So whats wrong with an English name?
@westburnworld
2 жыл бұрын
100kph is actually 62mph not 57mph
@DarrylTalks
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the correction. I will see if I can add correction pop up card.
@westburnworld
2 жыл бұрын
@@DarrylTalks your welcome
@tonymckeage1028
Жыл бұрын
Great Video, I agree North to south is Brainless! you call it efficient! i call it brainless! 100 km is fast enough! the " road mgmt system can see you if you are speeding"
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