... This brings to light another interesting topic - "gapped" highways, like the section mentioned above. There is indeed a definite gap in the continuity of ...
Just thought I'd add how Melbourne's roads have a strange tendency to be extremely wide in the city, and as soon as you hit the inner suburbs, you are stuck in...
I've been studying Brisbane's State Routes recently and thought Id comment on a couple of oddities I found. SR 22 is odd in that originally it began its...
On my way to Melbourne earlier this year, I saw a sign on the Hume Fwy (somewhere between Seymour and Melbourne) saying "VIEW AT LEAST 2", and arrow markings...
Hi there, it's Josh. Just telling you that for a while there have been plans to link the Eastern Freeway to Tullamarine freeway by a tunnel, and discussions...
... Good point. And why the change from modern high-efficiency high pressure sodium vapour with well-designed reflectors, to HP mercury vapour in crappy ...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone thought poles and lighting differences in each state was interesting. They make up the road scape. For instance, Victoria's power...
Hello All, Recently I've been trying to think of all the "dead" highways I can think of in Australia. The two most prominent ones I've seen personally, and...
... Fwy (somewhere between Seymour and Melbourne) saying "VIEW AT LEAST 2", and arrow markings are on the road. I assume it's to keep cars a safe distance...
On Brad's site, it mentions that the Gwynneville interchange on the Wollongong Northern Distributor is one of only three freeway to freeway interchanges in...
I recently wrote to the Federal Government (the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Transport and Regional Services) on the possibility of...
Hi all, Has the Pacific Hwy Brisbane - Gold Coast upgrading finished? Last July when I visited Brisbane, the speed limit on that highway is 100km/h. Now I...
Herald-Sun Link tunnel set to stroll RACHAEL HODDER THE Burnley tunnel - CityLink's centrepiece - will open on December 16 with a public walk through the...
Hey all Noticed when I saw the pics of one of Brad's site's road trips (the June 21 one) the "The National Highway" sign looks a little deficient. The Sturt...
Tuesday's Herald-Sun -- Scoresby plan goes nowhere The long awaited Scoresby freeway link between Ringwood and Dandenong is yet to secure Commonwealth funding....
WIN News reported tonight that the Helensburgh Interchange on the F6 (Southern Freeway, about 45km south of Sydney) was opened today by Hon. Carl Scully MLA,...
From today's Herald-Sun, page 2: "The proposed $950 million Scoresby Freeway linking Ringwood and Frankston should edge closer to reality today. The Federal...
Note from Herron Tod White's 'The Month in Review' -- "The State Government (the Springvale Rd/Maroondah Hwy extension of the Eastern Freeway)...will meet the...
Jamie Henderson wrote -- ... or still on the agenda?< Very much on the agenda. Vicroads is currently lobbying to have it recognised as a "road of national...
Not really indicative, but interesting. Perhaps I'm a one-eyed Victoria, but I'm generally relieved when I drive back over the border in Victoria. Some...
Thanks for that info, Bernard - I thought the CityLink tunnels had already been opened (I thought I saw the opening on TV) but is it only the westbound tunnel...
DanSPUI, ... That's correct. There are quite a few exceptions, however, generally speaking - N/S roads are odd, E/W roads are even, increasing west and north ...
Hello everyone, I have set up a page of links to transport projects that some of you might find interesting. Although it's not just roads and highways, there...
A hint, now that plague locusts are about to hatch big-time. Last year I drove to Perth and about midway came across a cloud of plague locusts a few kms east...
Last Monday, I took the opportunity of the greatly enhanced intercity CityRail timetables to take a trip up to Newcastle (a major industrial and port city,...
Daily Telegraph (London) ISSUE 1929 Tuesday 5 September 2000 Traffic-calming schemes often have the opposite effect to the one intended. David Rudnick reports ...
