Park and Ride should move from EPiC to Well Station Road

Keijidosha said :

My confusion seems to have stemmed from people referring to Well(s) Station Road when they actually mean Well Station Drive. I had assumed you were talking about what is now Old Well Station Road (which runs along the back of EPIC).

Anyway, I get it now and agree that a Park and Ride facility at the intersection of Gungahlin Drive and Wells Station Drive sounds like a good idea – but it doesn’t solve the issue of the Northbourne Avenue morning carpark, which must be a pretty big deterrent to potential bus users.

such a Civic obsession. try the 757 Gungahlin to Russell and avoid the Interchange. Guaranteed a seat. Transfer to Barton on one of the 700’s. Don’t pay for parking. Come on team, join me — or they will axe the 757 for under-patronage

My confusion seems to have stemmed from people referring to Well(s) Station Road when they actually mean Well Station Drive. I had assumed you were talking about what is now Old Well Station Road (which runs along the back of EPIC).

Anyway, I get it now and agree that a Park and Ride facility at the intersection of Gungahlin Drive and Wells Station Drive sounds like a good idea – but it doesn’t solve the issue of the Northbourne Avenue morning carpark, which must be a pretty big deterrent to potential bus users.

m_ratt said :

m_ratt said :

dvaey said :

Pretty much a southern bypass of Mitchell.

You mean Northern, right?

I’ve worked out why you said southern, but the proposal on that map is not Well Station Drive. Well Station Drive already from Horse Park Drive, and across the top (northern end) of Mitchell to Gungahlin Drive.

My mistake, it is actually crossing Old Well Station Drive, not Well Station Drive.

SnapperJack said :

Isn’t it strange how the road was always called Well’s Station Road – that was the spelling on all the maps and signs – but since Gungahlin was developed it has lost the possessive and become Well Station Road. Does anybody know why this happened?

All the well’s got s***ty houses built on them. Now there’s only 1 left.

SnapperJack said :

Isn’t it strange how the road was always called Well’s Station Road – that was the spelling on all the maps and signs – but since Gungahlin was developed it has lost the possessive and become Well Station Road. Does anybody know why this happened?

Illiteracy.

m_ratt said :

dvaey said :

Pretty much a southern bypass of Mitchell.

You mean Northern, right?

I’ve worked out why you said southern, but the proposal on that map is not Well Station Drive. Well Station Drive already from Horse Park Drive, and across the top (northern end) of Mitchell to Gungahlin Drive.

dvaey said :

Pretty much a southern bypass of Mitchell.

You mean Northern, right?

SnapperJack said :

Isn’t it strange how the road was always called Well’s Station Road – that was the spelling on all the maps and signs – but since Gungahlin was developed it has lost the possessive and become Well Station Road. Does anybody know why this happened?

Explained in the Gazettal of Well Station Road: http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/di/2006-242/current/pdf/2006-242.pdf or here by LDA: http://www.lda.act.gov.au/?/home/residential/wells

The homestead’s proper name was always Well Station, though it became commonly (and incorrectly) known as Wells Station. The housing estate is called Wells Station, however the road named after the station has been correctly (re)named.

You have to realise that that apostophe ‘s’, and the word ‘Flat” after Dairy on Dairy Road cost real money to include on the signs.

Should move the local budget into surplus in double-quick time.

Isn’t it strange how the road was always called Well’s Station Road – that was the spelling on all the maps and signs – but since Gungahlin was developed it has lost the possessive and become Well Station Road. Does anybody know why this happened?

Keijidosha said :

I must be looking at the wrong maps, because I can’t figure out how Wells Station Road will (or could) be connected to Gungahlin Drive without tunnelling under Mitchell.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113044804882548322551.00044fe6bacd7d4f0effb&ll=-35.247442,149.127903&spn=0.098554,0.150375&t=p&z=13

Pretty much a southern bypass of Mitchell.