The road between Farlie and the Lindis Pass is some of the best driving road in New Zealand.
I admit I haven't driven it for at least two years but it is flat(ish), has plenty of width, great open vision, just enough minor features to keep you awake and fantastic scenery.
The only real hazard are half-wit tourists who need to stop in the middle of the road to gawk and take photographs.
Simply put, it's a road that is a pleasure to drive. Parts of it, if you are in a convertible or on a motorcycle, almost demand speed. Around the lakes I have regularly been passed by motorcycles doing approx 100mph.
I have ridden the road on a m/c and empathise.
There was a prang on it the other day (two vehicles and a m/c) and some people died.
At least two were foreigners, students, probably exploring the area for the first time, gawking at the scenery. I don't know how it happened but I can guess.
Two days later the inevitable headline appears in a slime publication calling for "safety improvements".
I didn't read the story but I could have written it.
The accident will be blamed, by the ghoulish bastard writer, on the fact that the road has no motorist-murderer fence and not even a single speed-bump, stop sign or set of traffic lights.
In other words motorists on this road are free from the complete control of the utter scum who demand to tell everyone what to do all of the time.
People like the last NZ Government and socialists.
My sympathy goes to those injured and the families of those killed but, if you've got to go, what a great place to do it in!
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