I fall to pieces
Neil Holdom said the region's state highways were being run down.
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"Basically they've skimmed enough fuel taxes and road user charges from Taranaki drivers and businesses in the past 10 years to pay for half of Transmission Gully while our state highways are falling to pieces." New Plymouth mayor Neil Holdom said he knew what the problem was. "Where we are seeing pot holes fixed on a Friday come Monday the contents of that pot hole has washed out." "Something that's happened a number of years ago has got it to the point where it's finally breaking, where the maintenance that the crews do isn't enough to keep it up to scratch. It had been a wet winter, but Peach said something more fundamental was at play. You can't drive it on the wrong side of the road, so they have to go through them." They can't swerve to avoid a pot holes like a car can. "They don't have room in a heavy motor vehicle to avoid pot holes. "They're atrocious, they're atrocious and it's affecting, it's taking a toll on them physically and mentally driving on our roads. She was left with two flat tyres and a repair bill in the hundreds of dollars.ĭoug Peach of Symons Transport said the state of the roads was shocking and was affecting his drivers' well being. "So, I hit it and my left wheel went in and I felt my right side front come up and then when I went to carry on it just went bang because I went over the bump, over the last bit of it."
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Ngatai said it was a frightening experience. "So, there was three in a row actually, three pot holes in a row and I became like the fifth victim cause there was already four cars there." "And their lights were flashing and I was like why are they there? And I started slowing down but it was too late I'd already hit it. She was driving to the New Plymouth Airport on State Highway 3 recently when she saw a bunch of cars pulled up on the side of the road. Stratford mother Sandra Ngatai has first-hand experience of the perilous condition of Taranaki's roads. Waka Kotahi says that is a too simplistic view and the transport agency prioritises where it spends its money, by the greatest need. File image Photo: Suppliedĭocuments released to Neil Holdom under the Official Information Act show in 10 years, the region has contributed about $550 million to the roading agency's coffers which was spent elsewhere - primarily in the main centres. In 2004, "I Fall to Pieces" was placed at #238 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, listed at #107 on RIAA's list of Songs of the Century, and ranked at #7 on CMT's television special 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music.A Taranaki woman hit several potholes on State Highway 3 causing hundreds of dollars of damage to her car after it caused two flat tyres. Cline's invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry as a regular cast member can be partially attributed to this single's remarkable success. The hit had the slowest chart ascension and one of the slowest chart descensions ever. We knew we had magic in the can when, on the fourth take, every grown man in that studio was bawling like a baby and Bradley said `That's the one.'"Ĭline personally requested this song from Howard and Cochran, and the tune helped in her pop-country crossover. But the amazing thing was, once Patsy got into the groove, she just caressed those lyrics and that melody so tenderly that it was just like satin. So, it had to be the shuffle then, like it or not. We were trying all kinds of other (basic rhythm) combinations, but they all just laid there and bled all over the floor. "On the night of the session, we absolutely did NOT want to do the standard 4:4 shuffle that had by then been done to death.
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Howard assisted the recording process, quoted saying, Howard came over the next day to write it with Cochran, and the song became one of Cline's most recognizable singles. When Howard was in California, another writer, Hank Cochran, thought of the song title one night. Few can say they wrote for Patsy Cline, and even fewer can say they penned a country standard.