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.
Victoria Road has been turned into a car park during the morning peak.Credit: Louise Kennerley
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.
How planners got Rozelle traffic modelling horribly wrong
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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.
Victoria Road has........
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