Gungahlin Drive consultants linked to mass electrocutions

JR: They will probably need to rebuild the old bridge to make it wide enough for the cycle lane (or build a seperate cycle bridge to route the on-road cycle lane over).

Building a single lane GDE is as good an idea as buying a house in a town centre with no arterial roads.

Those who travel southbound down the GDE between the Aranda off ramp and the Glenloch Interchange will be pleased to note that the road will soon be upgraded to dual carriageway or at least a pre-election announcement will be made that the upgrade will occur (the cynic in me is coming out again!).

Earlier this month I was attending a joint Community Councils meeting with ACT Government agencies (and their representatives) and Tony Gill – director of ACT Roads (TAMS) indicated to a number of us that there was money left in the kitty and available for the upgrade.

It sort of makes sense given that the southbound lane was in fact the the original “Caswell Drive”, so I suspect that it will be a simple mater of widening the verge to cater for the cyclist lobby (I think the minimum standard is 1.2m for an on-road cycle lanes) and re-spraying new lane markings. I just do not understand why the didn’t make it dual lane in the first place when they were building the thing!

Regarding the single lane GDE – who the freak thought that would ever be a good idea??? I mean it’s bloody obvious to everyone that it should be double lane. I can’t think of another single-lane carriageway in Canberra… it simply doesn’t make sense to construct it as a single lane road. Whoever made that decision in the planning stages should have lost their job long ago.

The only possible reason I can come up with for the single lane decision is the government trying to engineer congestion so people use their cars less for commuting, but that’s too far fetched.

It should come as no surprise that NCA and KBR are in bed with each other. KBR is the pitcher and NCA is the catcher.

Who said there’s no money to be made from war????

Sounds like a good investment opportunity. By now while the shares are cheap after the electrocutions, and wait for then to go up with the start of the next war/GDE.

KBR have cleaned up bigtime with the Iraq war, being given contracts for pretty much anything and everything. There isn’t much over there that doesnt have their stamp on it. If you look at their company history, they have been in the business of supplying logistics for every war the US has been in for a very, long time. This mob have made a great deal of money out of the Iraq war. Dick Cheny was a president of the company too, which obviously raised a few eyebrows (particularly with his shareholdings).
Cheers
Steve

Fat lot of good you Gungahlinites did convincing Sonic, JR

Haha, Kramer’s point exactly Jon.