Lady Denman intersection upgrade

I’ve never been pinged in the V8, usually because I spot them before they can check me. Occasionally I drive at or below the speed limit (usually there’s someone in front of me when that happens).

By the way, VY, The last time I was pinged for speeding, it was down a road that linked Canberra avenue and Hindmarsh drive at 2am. Doing *way over 100K, and I saw a blue light on the horizon, pulled over and waited for the cop. He turned up and the discussion went something like…
“What speed were you doing, Son?”
“About 80km/h Officer”
“What is the speedlimit here?”
Me looks around – “Probably about 80, there are no houses or driveways..”
“Well, the limit here is 60km/h and I turned the light on when I was at 100km/h, and you were still going faster than me. Can you explain that?”
“No officer, I am confident that I was doing 80. This sure looks like an 80 zone. Sorry.”

Well, I got ticketed for the 20km over the limit (and the fine was a paultry $60 or so… Who cares.)

The moral to this story is that my driving hasn’t changed. What has changed is my observation of the road, and the way that the silly little vans have a BIG BRIGHT REFLECTIVE sign above them, means that they are piss easy to spot.

So I don’t get ticketed.

And if I do, then you simply amortise the cost of the fine over the time you have not been fined for. $600 for doing *way way* over the limit – divided by 10 years of not being pinged… $60 / year – Who cares.

By the way, what are points?

Lights? Are there lights there?

I’ve seen quite a few *really cool* dingles, involving lots of crap flying everywhere, simply because the lowast common denominator (The average canberra driver) – who should have caught the bloody bus, but discovered that their ticket had been eaten by the family dog, so they were re-discovering theie long-lost driving skill.

Kind of sad, in that they won’t have the active re-enforcement of ‘Gosh… I probably should have looked… Now, what page of the driving book was I up to… Ohh, I’ve got a SMS… Damm, the kids are complaining…’

Get over it, learn to drive. That means driving both offensively, as well as defensively.

Watch out for the speed camera on the secoond set of lights coming off the parkway heading south. From there your clear, as long as there’s no white van or sneaky cop hiding in the bushes. If you stick mostly to the left or centre lanes there’s plenty of visibility, and there’s generally time to vary your speed enough that they don’t get a proper reading.

driving from belconnen to the deep south can take anywhere from circa 25 minutes to 50 minutes (non-peak hour – travelling the speed limit ) because of the lights you refer to VY.. it’s pretty attrocious

Perhaps some thought given to properly designing a road that actually leads to smooth traffic flow would be a good idea.

When living in Tuggeranong a few years ago it was well known that to get a continuous string of green lights on Drakeford Dr, one needed to travel at about 95km/h from the Hyperdome to the Parkway. This is an 80km/h limited road. Why, then, are the lights not synchronised so that a car traveling at 80km/h gets the string of greens? Just doesn’t make sense.

Speed compliance is touted by govco as being basically the sole solution, but there’s SO much more to it than that.

Shits me, it does.

Arrgggghhh! More traffic lights! Say it isn’t so.

A roundabout here would be a much better solution. It also appears that traffic lights are going in where Lady Denman/Clunies Ross pass under Parkes Way. So 2 new sets of lights along this road.

I seriously dislike traffic lights – To me, putting in traffic lights are an indication that the road planners have admitted defeat. I think they should only be used where absolutely necessary (ie there are 2 or 3 sets I would remove from Northbourne Ave if I were King). Unfortunately that does not seem to be the view of however has been doing road planning in the ACT of late, as they seem to be popping up like mushrooms. I am beginning to wonder if somebody in the ACT govt/PS is getting a percentage!

And it’s actually a stop sign that drivers are shooting through to begin with. The north-bound lane is a give-way sign.

I too have been watching this development and guessing that traffic lights would be the outcome

yes accidents will probably decrease as people are forced to stop at the lights rather than not looking both ways like any sane driver

I’m guessing it will also cause merry havoc when traffic gets backed up and the on/off ramps to the Tuggers Parkway start getting blocked off by waiting traffic

will wait and see