Lanyon Drive to get upgraded

I’m at a bit of a loss as to why a lot of the diverted traffic has chosen the Manaro Highway – I drive home from Civic to Curtin along Lady Denham drive most days (which is the most obvious bypass around the Glenloch shemozzle), but I haven’t noticed it being horrendously busier than it was before the Glenloch came along…

Sammy what time do you take the Monaro? I am travelling from Chisholm to Barton either in the car around 7:50-8am, or on the bus around 8:15am. Definitely ten mins longer – and the difference is Monaro Hwy traffic, most mornings. The bus has also had to detour a couple of times through Narrabundah due to bottlenecks.

The commute along Monaro Hwy is ten mins longer this year than last year

I assume this is meant to be hyperbole. The commute along Monaro Hwy, from Chisholm to Fyshwick, takes me little more than ten minutes every morning. Does this mean this trip took 0 minutes last year?

id also like to see tollgates on the qbn/act border

There already is, sort of, in the form of a red-light- and speed-camera at the intersection of Canberra Avenue with Hindmarsh Drive at Fyshwick.

This is definitely about Tuggers. The commute along Monaro Hwy is ten mins longer this year than last year. Probably partly to do with extra stops like the prison lights and merging traffic at Lanyon Drive , but also people are using it instead of the Parkway at the mo because of the horrors at the Glenloch.

if the states were rid of their own govt, a lot more money would be efficiently spent.

all i see in nsw is infrastructure money sucked to the capital while statewide schools, roads and hospitals go unrepaired and underfunded.

so lets hear your wonderful justification for this oh wise kimba.

id also wager that the value to the states of work performed in the act is well above what it recieves in revenue from the commonwealth.

only fiscal dullards think that splitting the pie on a state contributon basis is a good idea. thats not how you build a nation, its how you build resentment, poverty and entrenched barriers to reform.

of course most state premiers and treasurers come from the norman lindsay school of economics.

well it actually is true….the NSW Government directly pays the ACT Government for services such as health.

GST….well the ACT Government gets more GST than the territory generates while NSW helps subsidise the ACT and other States.

so you people who live in this little pimple on a map should be grateful for NSW.

The ABC has a story today about the fed govt thinking of taking any responsibility for the airport away from the NCA.

This will mean they don’t have to abide by teh Capital Plan as the rest of Canberra does. It seems wierd, as Northbourne AVE and the Federal HWY come under the NCA as ‘the gateway to Canberra’ so surely the airport is also a ‘gateway to Canberra.’

Anyway – the NCA seems desperate for an expensive and time consuming project – they have so far dreamed up totally redoing the perfectly good National Library frontage, and redoing Rond Terrace.

Perhaps they could have a go at fixing up the roads around the airport, and actually do something useful with their time and money.

The Kings Hwy runs for a fairly significant distance through the oft forgotten north easter arm of the ACT anyway. And Lanyon drive in the NSW is a dual carriageway, it only becomes a bottleneck when it crosses the border.

How about fixing up the airport/russell nightmare?