A 27-year-old Yass man has died at Calvary Hospital after falling off his bike on Gungahlin Drive this morning (Tuesday, August 14).
At 6.25am, ACT Policing received reports from ACT Ambulance Service that a cyclist was injured on Gungahlin Drive.
The man was taken to the Calvary Hospital where he died.
ACT Policing’s Collision, Investigation and Reconstruction team [...]

Just saw this guy driving down Gungahlin Drive.
That’s right on the phone and eating a pie.
I will give him credit for doing the speed limit when most people speed there.
Note: I was a passenger when I took the photo.
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They’re digging it up! Again! Near Sandford Street. Again!
In honesty, they’ve made pretty good progress today. There was no action this morning and by this afternoon a goodish size chunk was removed.
Less comforting is the knowledge that while road removal is a smooth operation here in our nation’s capital, road laying seems to be somewhat [...]

After a review that apparently lasted 5 months, the A.C.T Government decided to raise the speed limit on the Gungahlin Drive Extension from 80 km/h to 90 km/h.  The implementation was carried out over the weekend of the 10th and 11th of March 2012.  After the implementation of the higher speed limit, the following issues [...]

This is on the side of Gungahlin Drive heading South towards the city (between Palmerston and Barton hwy turnoff).
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A 59-year-old man from Berridale in NSW will face court this morning after he was arrested twice by police for traffic-related offences within 12 hours yesterday (Friday, December 30).
Around 8.10am, a Gungahlin Patrol stopped a white Holden Acclaim on the Federal Highway in Lyneham as it did not display a current registration label. Police spoke [...]

I’ve written up another article re the GDE speed limit, with a table comparing road characteristics of the GDE, with others around the territory. Read on if interested:
I have not heard much on the GDE speed limit front. Last time I drove the road, the speed limit continued to be 80 km/h. Travelling at [...]

Simon Corbell has announced the official opening of the Gungahlin Drive Extension after many false dawns.
“The nine kilometre, four-lane GDE will significantly reduce north-south traffic congestion during peak periods. It will play a crucial role in reducing journey times for trips to and from Gungahlin. It will also help to relieve congestion on other arterial [...]

One of our @gungahlincc tweeps (Mel from Curves Gungahlin) has reported that both northbound lanes of the GDE are open and they are in the process of opening both southbound lanes right now. Slick trip home tonight for you all!
And next week people will be able to try out using Gungahlin Drive (yes can we please [...]

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Ellenborough Street is one of the major exits from Kaleen. Before the Barton Highway upgrade we used to be able to turn right from the slip lane from Ellenborough St onto the Barton Hwy but, since that right turn disappeared, if we want to head north on the Federal Hwy, [...]

The Liberals’ Alistair Coe is having some fun comparing the construction time of the soon to be completed Gungahlin Drive Extension with other major construction projects.
“Of the ten years since ACT Labor came to power, approximately seven years have been spent with the road under construction.
“This is in contrast to the span of the Sydney [...]

Territory And Municipal Services are warning that the much needed conclusion of the Gungahlin Drive Extension will mean road closures:
The ACT Government wishes to advise motorists and other road users that the Lady Denman Drive off-ramp and Glenloch Interchange on the Tuggeranong Parkway (both directions) will be temporarily closed from 10 pm to 5 am [...]

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Territory And Municipal Services advise that they’re closing the William Hovell Drive southbound on ramp to the Glenloch interchange from 8pm Tuesday 21 June to 5am Wednesday 22 June as part of the Gungahlin Drive Extension.
Well you did ask them to get on with it.

Well, the bridge has been finished for ages. The scaffolding gone, and nothing has fallen down.
Why then does it take so long to clear up the leftover rubbish, put in a kerb or two and open up the two lanes on the highway?
It looks to me like a one day job to me. I for [...]

Richard has sent in a cracking series of photos from the Gungahlin Drive Extension works, but we couldn’t resist this re-working of a stop sign.
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ACT Policing is calling for two women who may have witnessed an assault in a car travelling along Gungahlin Drive yesterday morning (Thursday, 19 May) to contact police.
Around 11.40am the women were driving a blue sedan south on Gungahlin Drive when they may have seen a woman assaulted by her male passenger while driving a [...]

Territory and Municipal Services bring word that they’re shutting down Gungahlin Drive (south bound lanes), from Wells Station Road to Barton Highway, from 7.30pm to 6am Monday 2 May 2011 to Friday 10 June 2011.
This is to rehabilitate the pavement.

Territory And Municipal Services advises there will be more closures of the Barton Highway as the Gungahlin Drive Extension Duplication goes ever on.
The ACT Government wishes to advise motorists and other road users that Barton Highway will be temporarily closed at its intersection with Gungahlin Drive from 8 pm to 6 am Wednesday 13 April [...]

Territory And Municipal Services informs us that the off ramp from Gungahlin Drive to Ginninderra Drive is “now closed until further notice”.
Apparently it didn’t like the rain.

A few of you have sent this in but Shane was the first.
Apparently he can be found beside the city bound side of Gungahlin Drive between Palmerston and Mitchell.
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Territory And Municipal Services have put out a note warning they’re closing the Barton Highway at the Gungahlin Drive intersection from 8pm to 6 in the morning from 7 February to 20 February.
This is for the bridge work.
Good luck finding another way around.

The Canberra Times informs us that, failure being an orphan, Reynders Constructions are shouting loud and long that they built the collapsed bridge formwork over the GDE exactly the way it was on the plans.
As the spider’s web of contractors and consultants point fingers the culpability of Roads ACT becomes clearer.
– Roads ACT presided over [...]

The Department of Territory and Municipal Services (TAMS) has released the report into the GDE bridge collapse.
It appears that our commenters on the original story were on the ball:
This report concludes that the main girders supporting the formwork were not braced to prevent lateral movement of the girders when subjected to the loads imposed by [...]

Thanks to Troll-sniffer for sending this in.
If you’ve got more on the great bridge collapse be sure to share: john@the-riotact.com
UPDATE: And on the subject of jokes the Canberra Times has this from the builders responsible specifically Mick Boyle of Abergeldie:
He had even ordered the concrete pour that was under way when the collapse [...]

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The Canberra Times brings word of a new and sorry twist in the tail of the Gungahlin Drive Extension with a major collapse of the new work over the Barton Highway:
Firefighters have freed a man trapped under a section of the Gungahlin Drive extension that collapsed this afternoon. Stage [...]

1. I wonder what part of Reid he lives?
A 21-year-old Reid man will face the ACT Magistrates Court today (Monday, June 7) on six traffic charges and a breach of bail after he was apprehended by police driving in the inner Canberra area around noon yesterday.
Police activated warning lights and siren and attempted a traffic [...]

1. RAPID Results:
Eight unregistered cars, two unlicensed drivers and three suspended drivers were among those detected by ACT Policing’s RAPID automated number plate recognition system during a two-hour operation in Belconnen this morning.
ACTP Traffic Operations conducted the RAPID (Recognition and Analysis of Plates IDentified) operation in cooperation with the ACT Roads and Traffic Authority [...]

Chief Minister and Minister for All Things Important, Jon Stanhope announced the imminent commencement of GDE stage 2. It will start in 2 weeks, but don’t hold your breath, as the first part won’t be completed until mid 2011, with the remainder due around 2012. There goes the land and house prices in Gungahlin again!
With [...]

I used the GDE every day and put up with the slow moving traffic just like everyone else has to. What really gets me is when I see a silver Mitsubishi Mirage (Unknown rego) driving in the bike lane.
I’ve have seen this on many different occasions during peak hour, with it happening again today. This twat [...]

Gungahlin Drive Extension has received a lot of scrutiny since its opening, and rightly so, particularly as we now witness the farce of roadworks beginning again. However, I would like to shine a spotlight on the deplorable state of the “original” Gungahlin Drive, between Barton Highway and Kosciuszko Avenue.
When driving towards Gungahlin on this so [...]

The world media is agog that the Halliburton owned consultancy KBR has managed to electrocute 14 US soldiers in shower facilities they built in Iraq.
Those with long memories will remember the same KBR were heavily involved in the design and construction of the Gungahlin Drive Extension.
Makes you wonder no?