Airport traffic woes over?

I like the Light Rail ideas. I also wouldn’t mind seeing it funded federally. But how much chance of that is there ?????????????????????

Fair point fnaah – it’s about tipping points and foresight (or lack thereof) isn’t it?

Add in pig-headed stubborness by certain Ministers who didn’t want to do anything that would support Snow in any way.

I think that the 2 stoopid little roundabouts at Brand Depot have exacerbated things too – that’s where the Majura Road congestion starts. What fool approved roundabouts on such an unbalanced flow?

Kramer: Russell is already chockers, with parking spilling into surrounding Campbell. Making people walk to Brindabella Park would require safe crossings and pathways for the entire route.

Gunghalin Al: 5000 people work at BBP, yet 30000 cars per day use pialligo avenue.

So up to a third of that traffic is BBP staff. Given that the road should have been duplicated at 20000 cars per day, i’d say the government should have been looking at it *before* people started working out there.

As someone who works out there, i’m glad that the airport is ponying up the dough to help fix the problem, and i certainly agree that BPP traffic has exacerbated the problem, but i disagree with the argument that BPP is the *cause*.

How about they take away all the parking at Snowytown, and get all the workers to park and shuttle (or walk – I’m sure some of the employees could use it) from Russel or the city?

It’s a mess, and as someone else said, it won’t fix the problems… the bottlenecks will just move, but their effects will be spread.
Hopefully the CT still has real journos, who might shine a brighter light into this very interesting partnership between an aggressive private entity, and a government of elected representatives.

I can guarantee one thing: no curfew will ever be imposed. Believe it.

I think one way to speed up the trip to Qbno from Canberra past the airport would be to prohibit heavy vehicles from travelling along there during peak periods – the number of times I have seen traffic crawling along stock behind a semi-trailer – ahh; so frustrating!

As a regular user of Majura Rd (up to 6 times daily) I find the biggest nuisance slow drivers are the interstate visitors to Brand Depot, not truck drivers.

Fnaah: the airport DID cause this through development of Brindabella Park, in disgregard of all local planning regs, purely because their federal land status meant they could. And Stephen Byron may have been coming across all magnanimous on 666 yesterday about their funding contribution, but the fact is any other development not of federal land would have had to contribute to such infrastructure costs caused by their development, so it is only fair that the airport should cough up – should have a bloody long time ago!

And roundabouts do not work well in situations of heavy unbalanced flows. That is why Brand Depot entry should have been lights not roundabouts, and why the Kings Ave one causes so many problems at peak times.

Sepi, the airport hasn’t created this traffic disaster. Most of the delays getting to/from the airport are caused by northbound/southbound traffic between the Monaro and Majura Ave blocking any east/west flow on the roundabouts. Roundabouts work fine when there is a “normal” amount of traffic passing through, but to move larger volumes you need lights, or better yet, grade differentials so traffic can pass in both directions unimpeded.

Caf is right. What bugs me is that a perfectly workable solution was proposed over twelve months ago, and nothing has been done as yet.

It’s good that the airport is kicking in some money to fix the traffic disaster they have created.

I hope this doesn’t give them extra bargaining power against introduction of an airport curfew.