Police investigate fatal collision on Monaro Highway

rigseismic67 said :

This is certainly a dangerous intersection. Also a few hundred metres South is the best location on the Monaro Highway to run over a kangaroo. Why is there no point to point speed camera from the ACT border to say the Tuggeranong roundabout? it would tie in nicely with NSW’s effort of one between Bredbo and Cooma.

You know, that point-to-point speed camera already on the Monaro does zip – I switch my display to average speed, press “go” as a pass the first camera, and then in between getting held up by idiots doing 80, I zoom along at 140 to make up the difference.
Safety? Get real.

In any case, the intersection of Old Cooma Road isn’t safe for people doing 100 (the speed the stupid point-to-point cameras are “enforcing”) anyway.

Much as I hate roundabouts, Dungfungus is correct.
Alternatively, the Federal government could spend *all* the money collected from fuel excise on building proper roads, like they are supposed to.

rigseismic67 said :

Why is there no point to point speed camera from the ACT border to say the Tuggeranong roundabout? it would tie in nicely with NSW’s effort of one between Bredbo and Cooma.

Because “safety cameras” have nothing to do with safety and everything to do with revenue?

I thought we’d established this pretty clearly over the last decade or so …

This is certainly a dangerous intersection. Also a few hundred metres South is the best location on the Monaro Highway to run over a kangaroo. Why is there no point to point speed camera from the ACT border to say the Tuggeranong roundabout? it would tie in nicely with NSW’s effort of one between Bredbo and Cooma.

HenryBG said :

Why do they always wait until *after* there is fatal accident before addressing poorly-designed roads and intersections.

Since the plethora of new blocks were built on to the East of this intersection, greatly increased traffic coming off Old Cooma Road wanting to head North has made the area very dicey.

On a Sunday afternoon, with the usual unbroken line of traffic heading North, people take chances.

I couldn’t agree more – it’s an intersection looking for an accident.
A roundabout like the one at the HQJOC turnoff between Queanbeyan and Bungendore would be a solution.

Why do they always wait until *after* there is fatal accident before addressing poorly-designed roads and intersections.

Since the plethora of new blocks were built on to the East of this intersection, greatly increased traffic coming off Old Cooma Road wanting to head North has made the area very dicey.

On a Sunday afternoon, with the usual unbroken line of traffic heading North, people take chances.