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4629
I have a question. When the MABC systems comes to NSW and QLD, will the metropolitan routes remain, like in Melbourne? I'm guessing they will. If they don't...
josh3185
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Jun 1, 2004
8:20 am
4630
In NSW, sydney is being renumbered first, so the metroploitan routes will not stay. Victoria chose to renumber the rural system first, that is why the metro...
sam laybutt
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Jun 1, 2004
9:16 am
4631
Hi all, I have found a good site with pics on the Grand Ridge Road in Gippsland, if anyone is interested. http://206gti.net/grr/index.htm Cheers Josh...
josh3185
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Jun 1, 2004
9:33 am
4632
... wasn't there? Yea, we had Ring Roads 1, 3 and 5 pre-State Route system (Ring 1, and they were converted into SR's 11, 33 and 55 respectively (presumably ...
ltwshark
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Jun 1, 2004
11:38 am
4633
... locals ... mean ... old "South ... I remember North Road used to be Monash Hwy, why? Nobody ever called it that. Hoddle Street and Punt Road are Hoddle...
josh3185
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Jun 1, 2004
11:56 am
4634
... Thanks for that Josh. Talk about an obsession :) Imagine if that guy showed that enthusiasm for *all* routes in Australia.. what a webpage that would be! I...
Karma Police
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Jun 1, 2004
1:36 pm
4635
... Been thinking about this some more... If the F3 corridor in Brissy was the SE Freeway F1 - Gympie Arterial Road? F2 - Western Freeway? After all, the...
Karma Police
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Jun 1, 2004
1:41 pm
4636
... Theres a few along Messinnes Ridge Rd - two nearing the Mt Gravatt campus of Griffith Uni as well. Is there one on the other side of Peronne Rd? ... I was...
Karma Police
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Jun 1, 2004
2:00 pm
4637
Yes, the metroad numbering makes it easy to cross the city, but this is not a "new" feature. I navigated my Dad across Brisbane in pouring rain in 1974...
Phillip McCallum
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Jun 1, 2004
9:03 pm
4638
... artery takes blood from the heart to the remote parts of the body. An 'arterial' ought to be to and from the city. ... Of course the reason why the Gateway...
josh3185
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Jun 2, 2004
12:23 am
4639
I think the Metroads are useful in that they provide routes that radiate and circumnavigate Sydney and Brisbane. I still don't know of anyone who use routes to...
josh3185
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Jun 2, 2004
12:31 am
4640
M is basically defined as expressway grade which means dual carriageway, sealed shoulders, major interchanges grade-separated, minor ones at grade, spaced at...
davis
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Jun 2, 2004
1:30 am
4641
... For sure, my dear old mum who use to live in Adelaide (And now lives in Broken Hill) says she finds the numbers very usefull when she's visiting, because...
darrin_smith1972
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Jun 2, 2004
2:41 am
4642
Do you think the MABC system should be consistent Australia-wide? The metro/state routes weren't. SA's system is different to Victoria's. It is funny that the...
josh3185
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Jun 2, 2004
3:16 am
4643
Talk about routes not lining up. Citylink have stuffed up the route numbering big time. The route numbers on western citylink, MR43 and NR79, have completely...
vissiman_m31
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Jun 2, 2004
6:21 am
4644
Here is just a silly idea for you on national route numbering. We already have numbers that are kind of associated with each capital city, based on postcode...
Phillip McCallum
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Jun 2, 2004
6:43 am
4645
Those names stem from the internal classification. Vicroads has classified those roads as 'State HIghways' and given each one a name, instead of being State...
sam laybutt
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Jun 2, 2004
7:24 am
4646
I don't like it because what happens with say your 224 route - via the Pacific Highway or via the New England Highway? and what do you sign the other route?...
davis
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Jun 2, 2004
9:55 am
4647
Fair enough, but this is the ONLY interstate route between capitals that is in any doubt. And the decision is already made - New England is the national...
Phillip McCallum
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Jun 2, 2004
11:05 pm
4648
Brining this up again, it would appear the the coverplates are plastic, and not self adhesive but nailed (rather shodily) through the sign. That's getting more...
davis
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Jun 3, 2004
5:44 am
4649
Here's a link to an article that was in today's SMH re this issue http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/02/1086058923654.html...
drstg
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Jun 3, 2004
6:21 am
4650
Gday, Drove out to Bathurst today and have a few things to report...... Linden Bends Duplication and reconstruction has been completed and opened, and it looks...
sam laybutt
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Jun 3, 2004
9:15 am
4651
Hey great pictures man. I just read the previous post about a possible motorway (why motorway, we never get freeways!) over the Blue Mountains. I am not really...
Henry Ung
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Jun 3, 2004
11:12 am
4652
Are they nailed? Probably more likely riveted. Lachlan ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger....
Lachlan Sims
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Jun 3, 2004
12:23 pm
4653
You'd expect rivets, but it looks like nails - as far as I could tell, they had flat heads...
davis
towersofhanoi
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Jun 4, 2004
2:00 am
4654
Good afternoon, all. Heraldry is the art and the study of coats-of-arms, those symbols usually featuring shields and animals that are used by governments,...
Bradley Torr
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Jun 4, 2004
3:41 am
4655
... thereabouts. When Australia introduced its numbered system of National Routes in 1955, the shield from the Australian coat-of-arms was used. The National...
davis
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Jun 4, 2004
11:39 am
4656
(which doesn't tell us anything new, other than indicating that the green backlash will probably kill it)...
davis
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Jun 4, 2004
11:41 am
4657
*pedantic mode on* SR-3 is actually the Reid and Roe Highways. The Mitchell/Kwinana Freeway is SR-2. ... aussiehwys@yahoogroups.com, Bradley Torr ... ===== MSN...
Davis Griffin
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Jun 5, 2004
7:09 am
4658
Hi everyone I have just spent over 2 weeks working on and off on the new update for Expressway. I have added a total of 20-odd signs to the sign gallery, added...
Paul Rands
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Jun 5, 2004
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