Belconnen Interchange coming down

I have taken a few of my own pictures & will be taking more of the demolition of Belconnen Interchange/Benjamin Way walkway/Cohen Street Extension

They can be found at http://photobucket.com/belconneninterchange

Oh the shame of it. I am on an “ugly footbridge” (from above comment). Surely I would be better off walking amongst the moving buses and across the six lanes of traffic.

What were they thinking? An off street place to get on an off buses, with overhead access to a number of major sources of employment and a large shopping mall. Obviously a town planner not on the take, or displaying gross competence. Also, this much maligned interchange used to have facilities, such as a warm place to wait for your bus, a ticket and info booth, toilets, a public phone etc..

The way I see it, is that the standard of facilities and the standard of society (or some elements of it) have diverged so far, that in order to be seen to cope with the problem, your elected representatives can only demolish the facility. This decision is in the hope that those of us who missed the giant space arks, will think that grubbiment is a “good thing”

Wasn’t it a ridiculous concept in the first place. Having to walk across those ugly footbridges across Benjamin Way and then being forced to walk through a busy carpark in order to enter Belconnen Mall. What on earth were the planners smoking?

Everyone now the reason behind the smaller is bus shelters is that in all interchanges in Canberra with their big long shelters, Interchange garbage (druggies/crims) hang around there. But you will notice in the 3 bus shelters, Interchange garbage/scum have moved on & the shelters are (relatively) cleaned

housebound said :

Glad it’s gone. It’s so much faster to get through Belconnen now.

If they built slightly bigger shelters at the 3 new stops, it would probably ease the pain for those who likes the cover.

Just take shelter at the local coffee shop!

Good to see the Stanhope Govt repainted it shortly before tearing it down.

Glad it’s gone. It’s so much faster to get through Belconnen now.

If they built slightly bigger shelters at the 3 new stops, it would probably ease the pain for those who likes the cover.

I never knew her when she was new, but by her end she was a tad underwhelming to view.

Therein lies a mystery PM. Something to do with extending Cohen St from vague memory of the original justification but I’m not sure why Westfield couldn’t of got on and done their bit.

I still don’t know why it had to be demolished, though, before the new interchange at Westfield.