Geelong - Bypass to a bottleneck
Submitted: Monday, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:40
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Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses
Acting bell ringer for Victoria Minister John Thwaites announced last Friday that the
Geelong Bypass will make it easier to get to the coast and west of
Geelong cutting out 29 traffic lights. Site Link in The Age.
One of the biggest things will be that you travel at the 100kph on the new bypass I guess to end at the end of the bypass right into the Waurn Ponds 80kph section that is dangerous - but not of course those going to the coast and their
Anglesea holiday homes.
The danger of the Waurn Ponds section has been apparent with deaths but I guess it heads to Western Victoria and has industrial traffic - semi trailers and B - doubles and of course residents cars. No doubt the
Anglesea people will be glad to get away from that but will the locals like traffic the back way to the coast down residential streets
The state government has taken the option rejected by local councils and the community organisations and ignored it all. For those that know the area it will come in next to the caravan
park motel complex.
No planning to the future at all unfortunately, but it will avoid 29 traffic lights. Not happy John Thwaites.
Reply By: Mr Fawlty - Monday, Jul 10, 2006 at 14:02
Monday, Jul 10, 2006 at 14:02
Ahhhhhhh Yes
Geelong is a town on the move.... I hope the Bypass is stuctured to accept the new generation of Trams that are supposidly being reintroduced....
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Reply By: arthurking83 - Monday, Jul 10, 2006 at 20:20
Monday, Jul 10, 2006 at 20:20
That just about sums up the last 10-15 years of transport
infrastructure in Vic doesn't it!! ;)
Absolutely no thought process involved in the long term structure of the development.
Only half@$$ed attempts to create the illusion that some of the petrol excise revenue(possibly only 5% of it :p) is going into "safer roads"
Their only goal is to minimise the cost, and to maximise the illusion that something is being done!
look at how the Tulla (toll section) turned out!
If they had any foresight (or evenjust asked a few motorists!!) any brain dead monkey could have foreseen the bottleneck at the Calder interchange!
Now they need to disrupt traffic once again(for another 6 months) to fix the lame attempt with the citylink project.
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