Airport flyover now firing on all cylinders

There’s still big problems at the Fairbairn/Beltana ex-roundabout. One of the local residents gave the airport an almighty serve about how the traffic management of the workmen there is not up to par (cars banked up Beltana Rd, no one could get in or out) and it transpires that this work is being done by contractors to the ACT Gov’t.

Today mid-morning traffic was banked up from that intersection to the airport. Some dangerous incidents have been reported.

SheepGroper said :

… and the new surface makes my tyres give off a weird whistling noise.

That whistling noise is deliberate to scare off any errant eastern greys.

: )

Seems to have eased congestion this morning, and the new surface makes my tyres give off a weird whistling noise.

I just looked at the PDF of the changes (My 3 yr old could of done better) Why didn,t they build on big interchange for all the roads and never had to worry about it again, nar build Australia’s biggest roundabout joining all seven roads, like the one in Jarra (That would of been fun) I,m a sadist really!

They could make a good escape on foot though… no one could catch them unless on foot also!

I wonder how fast they’ll get those two bridges over Woolshed Creek done? To make the roads fatter. I’m surprised how fast they got the 2nd bit of the road from Fairbairn to the airport done, it was a dirt hole last week.

You have to admit though that Canberra Airport is safer than Sydney Airport – no one could be involved in a fatal brawl at Canberra Airport in the middle of the day and then escape by taxi before the AFP arrived!

It’s still a big problem for cyclists getting to Brindabella Park. The cycleway just ends at the edge of the airport.

That said, I’ve managed a quicker trip on my bike than I have my car some mornings.

The ACT Gov didn’t help the situation by getting all those out at Gungahlin to drive down Majura Road…

But yes – this is exactly why we need decent planning controls that are followed by all.

Is it just me, or is this going to end up one hell of a mess, with multiple roads all taking you to the same place, and yet where the largest congestion occurs (aka the road to the airport \ qbn) we’re still only looking at a single access road.

Yep, it’s just moved the bottleneck. And this will continue to happen, as the haphazard road work continues. Russell Roundabout (at Kings Ave) was at peak capacity last year during the rush hours, and that hasn’t changed.

Around this time last year, it took me LONGER to get from the airport traffic jam to Barton, than it took me to get from midway on the Captain’s Flat Road, to the traffic jam at the airport. That is, it took longer to go 5 kms, than 25 kms.

All this lost time, and then all the public money spent to try and fix the problem caused by one family cheerfully exploiting a loophole in order to make squillions. I wonder what other things weren’t done, becuase tax money had to be diverted to fix the Snowtown mess?

And now we have traffic lights all along a road that had none, and needed none until this situation happened.

I’m certainly a lot happier that I won’t be crawling along in 1st gear and brakes, and when the Russell roundabout is fixed, things’ll be even better. But it should never have happened in the first place.