Roadsign Recursion on Gundaroo Drive

I’ve ridden under that bridge a thousand times and only noticed it (fixed) this week…

Weatherman – The old Gundaroo Road used to follow roughly the path of the modern Gundaroo Drive right through to the township of Gundaroo. The old road cuts through the suburb of Gungahlin, before heading over what is now a lake to the family park in Forde. It runs the length of the suburb has a walking/riding/skating path on the old road way – you can see it easily on nearmap.

And chill out….

Pork Hunt said :

You really do have a bee in your bonnet. Are you overestimating the number of people actually wanting to visit Gundaroo?
The last time I went (on my way to much more cosmopolitan Gunning) it was not exactly bumper to bumper on that road…

You can’t get to Gunning without knowing how to get to Gundaroo first.

Over the course of a lifetime, there would be a lot of traffic in total. It’s a major rural byway which extends across the border into other townships. It would seem to be a public requirement to have signposts to show which roads lead to other towns. For example, if fire fighters from out of town needed to get to these places urgently in a severe disaster, it would help for there to be appropriate road signage.

It seems that the urban development of the Gungahlin area has resulted in unmarked deviations required to proceed northwards on to Gundaroo. Given the lack of daily traffic, it still seems inadequate to not have appropriate signage.

Weatherman said :

Also, there would be a lot of people getting lost on the way to Gundaroo, as according to Google Street View, there is no road signage to show that drivers must turn left at the end of Gundaroo Drive on the way to Gundaroo, as it would seem the original path towards Gundaroo has been deviated. The authorities should provide adequate signs pointing to Gundaroo under the circumstances.

You really do have a bee in your bonnet. Are you overestimating the number of people actually wanting to visit Gundaroo?
The last time I went (on my way to much more cosmopolitan Gunning) it was not exactly bumper to bumper on that road…

Deref said :

Melbourne has High Street Road. Maybe this is street name envy.

It seems to work for Smith Street Motorway on the Gold Coast too.

Also, there would be a lot of people getting lost on the way to Gundaroo, as according to Google Street View, there is no road signage to show that drivers must turn left at the end of Gundaroo Drive on the way to Gundaroo, as it would seem the original path towards Gundaroo has been deviated. The authorities should provide adequate signs pointing to Gundaroo under the circumstances.

shirty_bear said :

HenryBG said :

Weatherman said :

The name Gundaroo Drive is a farce. The road doesn’t even go to Gundaroo.

Yeah, not to mention Duffy Street in Ainslie, which doesn’t go anywhere near Duffy.
As for Tasmania Circle, in Forrest – I mean, come on, how silly do they think we are?

I noticed some years ago that where a name is both a street and a suburb in this town, that street is rarely in (or goes to) that suburb. Still find it odd.

Not so odd after all. In the majority of cases these streets were named when Canberra was much smaller and the planners thought something should be named after that person. As Canberra expanded and new suburbs were created it was thought that a suburb should be named after that person if they were deemed important enough.

As for Gundaroo Drive, it is roughly where the old Gundaroo Rd was so the old “Road” suffix was replaced with Drive in line with Canberra developmental tradition, the suffix “Road” fell out of favour with the planners very early in the piece. Same with Tharwa Road/Tharwa Drive.

Interestingly though, Flemington Road has managed to keep its old semi-rural name despite now being the major arterial bringing cars from North Canberra into Gungahlin.

shirty_bear said :

HenryBG said :

Weatherman said :

The name Gundaroo Drive is a farce. The road doesn’t even go to Gundaroo.

Yeah, not to mention Duffy Street in Ainslie, which doesn’t go anywhere near Duffy.
As for Tasmania Circle, in Forrest – I mean, come on, how silly do they think we are?

As opposed to those sort of roads which are named after the places. You can see the intention of Gundaroo Drive was to indicate that Gundaroo would be in the general direction of where the road is leading to. However, Gundaroo Drive doesn’t link up with Gundaroo Road.

HenryBG said :

Weatherman said :

The name Gundaroo Drive is a farce. The road doesn’t even go to Gundaroo.

Yeah, not to mention Duffy Street in Ainslie, which doesn’t go anywhere near Duffy.
As for Tasmania Circle, in Forrest – I mean, come on, how silly do they think we are?

I noticed some years ago that where a name is both a street and a suburb in this town, that street is rarely in (or goes to) that suburb. Still find it odd.

HenryBG said :

Weatherman said :

The name Gundaroo Drive is a farce. The road doesn’t even go to Gundaroo.

Yeah, not to mention Duffy Street in Ainslie, which doesn’t go anywhere near Duffy.
As for Tasmania Circle, in Forrest – I mean, come on, how silly do they think we are?

Let’s not forget Adelaide,Brisbane,Melbourne,Perth and Sydney Ave,oh and Darwin and Hobart Pl and i’m not gonna even talk about Fyshwick!

Weatherman said :

The name Gundaroo Drive is a farce. The road doesn’t even go to Gundaroo.

Yeah, not to mention Duffy Street in Ainslie, which doesn’t go anywhere near Duffy.
As for Tasmania Circle, in Forrest – I mean, come on, how silly do they think we are?