Thread: Melbourne "Traffic"!

Yeah its like that in Sydney now, only worse on the weekends with all the kids being taken to sport/shopping,visiting etc.

I'll be glad when I retire in 2 years to get out of the city and down the coast.

Then I'll only have the holiday periods to contend with.

cheers

Sydney (and Melbourne) are shocking. As you say Pickles, it wasn't so long ago that you could depend on being able to get somewhere at a certain time of day within a known time frame. Adjusting for peak hour just meant adding half an hour etc. Not any more, it's chaos pretty much all the time and here's why:

3218.0 - Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2015-16

When I heard this a couple of weeks ago I was astounded at how quickly the last million were added to Sydneys population.

Populations are just growing too fast to allow infrastructure to keep up.

Originally Posted by Pickles2

.... eventually got on to Dandenong Rd,...gridlocked, so did a turn into Grange Rd, to Nepean Highway, which was better, but ....

Almost certain to have been a major accident on the Monash.
Daily occurrence coz people don't know how to drive(mainly merge) and there's always one idiot that NEEDs to do 120k/h when the flow is more like 90-ish.

if the Monash wasn't closed due to an accident, then the Westgate was in opposition.

It's either one or the other!

Fun to be had all when all hell breaks loose and the moon makes everyone looney and they're all closed due to multiples every 500 meters or so!

Strangest one I've ever seen, and buggered if I know how they all did it, but on the Ring Rd(west) heading north where the two lanes open up to five lanes, there was a 6 car pile up just after the 5 lanes began.
How on earth those 6 cars piled into each other going from 2 lanes out to 5 is beyond my ability to imagine such a scenario!

Originally Posted by disco gazza

Yeah its like that in Sydney now, only worse on the weekends with all the kids being taken to sport/shopping,visiting etc.

I'll be glad when I retire in 2 years to get out of the city and down the coast.

Then I'll only have the holiday periods to contend with.

cheers

Yes we did the head south sea change for retirement from Sydney and although we live in paradise holidays times do get busy.

Upside is once Easters over we've basically got the place to our selves and the 45 other permanent residents

Cheers Paul

It is a long weekend so rds usually are grid locked as everyone rushes to escape, nothing new really.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

to escape, nothing new really.

Not in my book, I reckon it's terrible,...and getting worse,..and with all of the building, hi rise etc going on, it's gonna get a lot worse,...quickly.
Pickles.

Originally Posted by SBD4

Sydney (and Melbourne) are shocking. As you say Pickles, it wasn't so long ago that you could depend on being able to get somewhere at a certain time of day within a known time frame. Adjusting for peak hour just meant adding half an hour etc. Not any more, it's chaos pretty much all the time and here's why:

3218.0 - Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2015-16

When I heard this a couple of weeks ago I was astounded at how quickly the last million were added to Sydneys population.

Populations are just growing too fast to allow infrastructure to keep up.

Exactly,...that's the way I see it.....and I agree with you, increased population concentration is a major aspect,...infrastructure is not keeping pace.
Pickles.

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