Road Planning, or lack thereof

Ride a tricycle in that case, less strain on the rear bearings. That will get you past those traffic. Plus after riding on the roadway lane for a bit you can switch to a nice bit of scenic multi-purpose (i.e. cyc/ped) track

anno17, the poit is that a planned city shouldn’t have the same planning issues that say Sydney and Melbourne have. Roads and other infrastructure should and for some reason haven’t been designed to cope. Maybe the planners need to play with simcity for a while.

But we used to live in a city 5 years ago too, and yet the roads worked well.

Canberra is expanding and the roads are not keeping up, and nothing much is being done about it. How congested do things have to get before we can complain? NRMA have already said parts of the GDE are as bad as Sydney. Yet Canberra is about a tenth the size of Sydney.

I think it’s pretty ridiculous listening to you Canberrans complaining about your roads. Okay, they may not make sense at times and you have some traffic, but coming from a small country city in NSW, your roads are perfect. You take your roads for granted and from what I’ve heard you’re nothing more than whingers. It took me 15 mins to drive from the outer suburbs into the city where I used to live (with a population of around one fifth of Canberra’s). It takes me (with good traffic) around 20 mins to get from outer Belconnen into Civic. Go figure. With bad traffic? Well, I accept the fact that I chose to drive and sit patiently in the queue at the lights. I sometimes let people in too, which apparently you Canberrans don’t know how to do. And, also, I look an awful lot when driving. Obviously not in the ACT Road User’s Handbook. Get over yourselves. You live in a city!!! Traffic congestion and silly planning is normal!!! Get over it.

haha yeah that one looks like it might be interesting.

I drove into a good one in Spain once cant remember which city though. And it was 6 3 or 4 lane roads coming in but in the last 10m or so the lane markings end so the 4 lane traffic all bunch up into 7 or 8 cars wide. I was driving a huge Ford Galaxy van left hand drive with no mirrors. And to make matters worse my girl friend in the passenger seat was crying her eyes out. lol

To really test you.

http://home.san.rr.com/roundabout/english.htm

It could be worse. Our local planners could discover this monstrosity and apply it to the GDE/Belco Way intersection.

First time I drove through that intersection I thought it was all going to be temporary and fixed as soon as they started to build the fly overs. But no they took the cheap option and built one of Australia’s biggest Intersections.

To the OP, try going up Belco Way from Civic and turn left up Bindubi St towards Jammo and then either rat-run through Hawker or follow Bindubi down to Parkes Way(?) (Kingsford Smith Extension) and then Kingsford Smith Drive or depending what area of Holt you live maybe Drake Brockman Dr.

I’m still trying to work out the logic of building a hugely expensive overpass then putting in traffic lights. It sums up ACTRoads’ admin capabilities nicely.

Yes, it is a cock-up. Building an artery for Gungahlin and bisecting both belco arteries (Belco Way and Gindy Drive) at the same time. Retarded. With the other sets of traffic lights that have appeared on Belco Way over the last few years it is now useless for going any further than bunnings.

As for the GDE intersection, yes, it would have made sense to extend the off ramps and negate the need for traffic lights.

Just stick with the bike riding for at least 2 months, by then you will see some positives and it won’t be so tiring.