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For any motorist inching their way through part of Sydney’s inner west, the state government’s traffic modellers have seriously miscalculated the flow-on effects from incorporating a massive spaghetti junction into the road network.
It has turned arterial routes and local streets in the inner-west suburbs of Balmain, Rozelle and Annandale into car parks during the morning rush.
For the third straight day, motorists and bus passengers endured bumper-to-bumper traffic on the City West Link and Victoria Road. A trip from Haberfield to the Anzac Bridge on the City West Link averaged an agonising 44 minutes in the morning peak on Wednesday.
Several months ago, Transport for NSW’s modelling had suggested traffic from the interchange would add only five to 10 minutes to trips on Victoria Road through Drummoyne and over the Iron Cove Bridge during morning peaks.
Those travel delays have now blown out.
It has left packed buses, which once offered commuters a quicker ride into the CBD, crawling along local roads as they get caught up in the congestion, turning what was once a 15-minute trip from Balmain to the CBD into a 45-minute journey.
Roads Minister John Graham and senior transport officials have a major problem on their hands.
Residents who have endured years of disruption from construction of the interchange will not tolerate weeks and months of this, let alone wait for relief to congested roads from the opening of the Western Harbour Tunnel in 2028.
The minister offered few tangible remedies on Wednesday. A directive for trucksworking on government construction sites at Rozelle to stay off the City West Link during the morning peak won’t be the magical solution.
While emphasising that “there’s nothing off the table”, Graham and his Transport boss Josh Murray appear reluctant to do what many motorists reckon is the obvious solution.
That is, add lanes or make changes at the pinch-points that are causing the pain. A three-lane to one merge point from Victoria Road onto the Anzac Bridge, along with two lanes merging into one on the City West Link, are proving to be painful bottlenecks.
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GUSNOTE: THE WESTCONNEX AND THE ROZELLE INTERCHANGE ARE CREATIONS OF THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENTS (GLADYS' AND PERROTTET'S). THE NEW GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE FORESEEN THAT SOME OF THE TUNNELS NOT BEING SERVICEABLE YET, COULD CREATE A FEW "PROBLEMS" WITH THE INTERCHANGE... THINGS WILL SORT OUT SOON, AS DRIVERS FIND THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT AND FLY AWAY TO... WHEREVER THERE IS NO TRAFFIC MARMALADE....
- By Gus Leonisky at 30 Nov 2023 - 5:30am
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I avoid the Rozelle interchange like the plague — I drive through public parks, pedestrian pavements, pub gardens and car parks and bypass by Parramatta…. We're saving 10 minutes this morning….
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How many more things can go wrong in Sydney’s transport? We’ve had ferries, trains, buses, trams ... now Rozelle’s spaghetti junction. Letter writers and commenters were not amused by the wasteful use of public money, and the hours they spent trapped in traffic, on the newly-opened “Rozehell” interchange.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/the-rozehell-interchange-a-spaghetti-junction-that-doesn-t-pasta-test-20231206-p5epmm.html
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China is a country that has undergone unprecedented changes. Over the past thirty years, China has modernized more rapidly than any other nation, achieving remarkable feats that have left the world astonished.
China's Mega Projects Shocked The World! American Engineers Call It Impossiblehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGSwZ3BpudU
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... the former premier "left an indelible mark on our [NSW] state"
In short:Former premier Dominic Perrottet is quitting politics, ending a parliamentary career spanning more than 13 years.
It comes a month after another high-profile Liberal, former NSW treasurer Matt Kean, also resigned.
What's next?Mr Perrottet will move to the US with his family to work for BHP, while his party faces two by-elections.
Former NSW Liberal premier Dominic Perrottet has announced he is quitting politics to take up a new role in the United States.
The ABC has confirmed that Mr Perrottet and his family will move to Washington DC where he will head up BHP's office there.
Mr Perrottet will work as the mining company's US head of corporate and external affairs.
His decision to quit politics has been widely anticipated for months, with the former leader-turned-backbencher known to be actively seeking opportunities in the private sector.
The announcement comes just a month after the resignation of another high-profile Liberal, former treasurer Matt Kean, meaning the party will now face two by-elections.
Mr Perrottet's decision brings to an end a parliamentary career spanning more than 13 years.
During that time, he and his wife Helen have been raising seven children — the youngest of whom was born in 2022.
A bumpy ride at the topMr Perrottet's relatively short term in office was rarely an easy one.
He was handed the reins at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns and oversaw the reopening of the state to the country and the world.
Mr Perrottet faced a drawn-out industrial fight with rail workers which caused major disruptions across the network.
His government also faced weeks of damaging headlines over the appointment of former Nationals leader John Barilaro to a plum role in New York.
His trade minister Stuart Ayres resigned over the matter.
He also lost his finance minister, Damien Tudehope, over undeclared shares in a toll-road company held in his superannuation account. He was cleared of knowingly breaching the ministerial code of conduct but resigned to avoid further distraction.
And less than three months out from the election, Mr Perrottet admitted to wearing a Nazi uniform to his own 21st birthday, declaring he was "deeply ashamed".
However, Mr Perrottet won praise for tackling difficult policy areas like poker machine reform.
His government also redesigned residential stamp duty, giving many first homebuyers the option of paying a yearly land tax instead of a lump-sum. The Minns government reversed the policy soon after winning government.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/nsw-former-premier-dominic-perrottet-resigns-politics/104116458
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