New way to do "Road Works" in the 21st Century

[ascottaudio]

1) Do "knee Jerk" road works like putting up the barriers on the West Gate Bridge to stop "jumpers".(I know for a fact they now jump off the Bolty bridge)..
2) Make the road works last for months if not years by using a bear minimum of man power so that traffic can be slowed for a maximum of time.
3) Put up speed signs (40k) even if there is no work being done and its perfectly fine to drive at the normal speed limit.
4) Do road works on Roads that were only just constructed in the last few years to frustrate drivers even more by making wonder why??????
5) Resurface perfectly good roads (like they did to my street) and leave bumpy pot holed roads to stuff up drivers cars.
6) Put in new traffic signals (like the red arrow they put in at my corner) ..that slow the traffic even more rather than speed it up...

ok ....feel free to add some of your own..




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[Drawnnite]

fix up the same pot hole 6 times over about 6 months coz of all the rain
just fix it right the first time!

[aidannn]

once they've built the road, realise they've only made it single lane instead of double, so they have to spend twice the time they just spent building it, to make it 2 lanes

[Acclaimed VS]

I hate how they put a friggin right turn arrow at a intersection I drive through everyday. It's there because last year was an election and I'm in Rudd's electorate so it was time to make themselves look busy with pointless projects like this one. It now takes 5 more minutes to get through an intersection at the easiest right turn ever. Seriously if you ####ed up here you were either blowing a 0.10 on the bretho or just trying to die.

Also basically how we have to accommodate for retarded drivers with speed limits and stupid intersections. Seriously if we keep it up we'll all be walking around soon because driving is too dangerous. Sometimes natural selection takes it place and dumb asses die. #### happens!

[Garth]

qld special
1. do the major works on the gateway motor way, gympie road and all the major aterials, all at once.
2. take so long doing it.
3. make it crapier than it was to start with.
4. have the hide to raise the tolls.
5. make a stupid tunnel that no-one uses. such a waste.
6. employ people to hold up the slow signs during road works for no reason,
7. and my personal fravorite, shut down 2 lanes on the m1 or gate way motor way so they can do road works, only to have no-one actualy doing any work while the lane is shut, driving all the people on the road up the wall at the time.

[CSP]

Jeremy Clarkson's old favourite gripe... Roadwork speed limits (that are there mainly to protect the workers) that are still in place AT NIGHT WHEN NOBODY IS WORKING!!!! Sure, if the roads a bit ripped up and temporary, but if it's for widening or work that doesn't change the condition of the lanes that are still open, why are there roadwork speed limits at night?

[acarmody]

qld special
1. do the major works on the gateway motor way, gympie road and all the major aterials, all at once.
2. take so long doing it.
3. make it crapier than it was to start with.
4. have the hide to raise the tolls.
5. make a stupid tunnel that no-one uses. such a waste.
6. employ people to hold up the slow signs during road works for no reason,
7. and my personal fravorite, shut down 2 lanes on the m1 or gate way motor way so they can do road works, only to have no-one actualy doing any work while the lane is shut, driving all the people on the road up the wall at the time.

I think you hit the M1 nail on the head here Garth. I drove from the northside to Nerang the other day and I am completely confused as to why the largest southside motorway was moving at 5km/h at 12pm. Bloody joke.

[MasterOfReality]

I use the Clem7 regularly on my trips to the airport, when I come from my partners parents house on the southside, and going back again.

I'd gladly pay the tolls to avoid the traffic, wasted time and aggravation. People whinge about a few bucks but would rather spend that money idling in traffic and getting ####ed off.

A couple of weeks back, the morons decided to start roadworks on Moggill Road, on a Saturday morning when Colleges Crossing was closed. Huge traffic jam.

[Coast_Calais]

i think Brisbane should stop ALL roadworks and just develop a trébuchet launch and catch system.. more effective imho

[ari666]

make a road with 4 beautiful lanes that people have to pay to use. make it sleek and a nice drive into the city. then impose a permanant 80kmph limit on it. draw a single unbroken white line in the middle of the 4 lanes (for god knows what reason) so no one can change lanes, then police it heavily with unmarked cars so they can catch offenders, rather than patrolling the neighbouring smack-den that is richmond.

have a long straight 80kmph road to the city (toorak rd). at various random intervals impose 50kmph (school) speed limits, just for good measure change the limit from 80kmph to 70kmph and back again randomly without changing any of the road conditions whatsoever. then for further good measure, add tram tracks, and randomly placed 40kmph speed limits, which mean that no idiot will overtake the tram because they dont want to get busted speeding. once again, heavily police with unmarked police cars hiding in side streets and unmarked speed detection units.

[UFO]

once they've built the road, realise they've only made it single lane instead of double, so they have to spend twice the time they just spent building it, to make it 2 lanes

GDE in Canberra by any chance?
Idiot decision makers .
Road works for what.... 4 years now?

[MySV6]

I have been very close to 2 accidents in recent years, alas both were fatal. In both cases speed or road condition was not an issue at all as we were not even doing the posted limit (I was the car in font once, and behind on the other). What does the RTA do after the cleanup?


Reduce the speed limit by 10 and 20kmh - argh what idiot decided that, and why does it seem like a knee jerk reaction where fatal Accidents happen?

Oh and after asking for 7 years to get my street resurfaces, a sister of a state polititian moves in and a week later we get the road done - it pays to have good relatives it seems

[CSP]

GDE in Canberra by any chance?
Idiot decision makers .
Road works for what.... 4 years now?

Yeah - you realise if Canberra didn't oust the Coalition government it would have been completed 3 and half years or so ago... Including the Glenloch Interchange.

[azkwazere]

My personal favorite is to spend months and months and months widening a road, impost stupidly slow speed limits and lane closures, make a nice smooth straight freeway... perminately reduce the freeway speed to 80kms... its a 4lane freaking freeway! it should bt 120kms

Other ones include:

performing road works between 7-9am on major roads..during the week and closing a few lanes
reduced speeds at night
reduced speeds on roads near road works..just incase

aZk.

[Asmodai78]

those anti-jumper barriers on the westgate are a joke, last wednesday the missus and my self saw a guy sitting on top of them with about 6 police standing around tryin to get him to come down

[Astranomical]

- Make sure when you fix potholes that they are never sealed properly, so that the next time it rains the fill will drain out and the road will have to be repaired again. (as what used to happen when I was back in the Bundaberg area - Goodwood Road was especially bad for this)

[Trayner]

make a road with 4 beautiful lanes that people have to pay to use. make it sleek and a nice drive into the city. then impose a permanant 80kmph limit on it. draw a single unbroken white line in the middle of the 4 lanes (for god knows what reason) so no one can change lanes, then police it heavily with unmarked cars so they can catch offenders, rather than patrolling the neighbouring smack-den that is richmond.

have a long straight 80kmph road to the city (toorak rd). at various random intervals impose 50kmph (school) speed limits, just for good measure change the limit from 80kmph to 70kmph and back again randomly without changing any of the road conditions whatsoever. then for further good measure, add tram tracks, and randomly placed 40kmph speed limits, which mean that no idiot will overtake the tram because they dont want to get busted speeding. once again, heavily police with unmarked police cars hiding in side streets and unmarked speed detection units.

This ^^^^^

[vsl67]

For Brisbane and Se Qld in anyone night Have 20 manned police cars sitting at various road works on the highway with lights flashing doing nothing and then have the Police force say they are undermaned and under resoureced to fight crime

[ari666]

For Brisbane and Se Qld in anyone night Have 20 manned police cars sitting at various road works on the highway with lights flashing doing nothing and then have the Police force say they are undermaned and under resoureced to fight crime

aww doesnt it jsut make you feel all good inside?


also azk point is a good one. drove to work one day down a regular 2 lane street, have to wait in traffic for 20 mins cos someone had the genious idea of working on the inbound lane in the morning... think, what a bunch of crap... drive back the same road after work only to get tied up on the same street for ALMOST AN HOUR cos' they moved on to the outbound lane!!!! WTF???

[Isaac]

For Brisbane and Se Qld in anyone night Have 20 manned police cars sitting at various road works on the highway with lights flashing doing nothing and then have the Police force say they are undermaned and under resoureced to fight crime

I remember Christmas time I had to goto the airport to pick up my brothers on two consecutive days, first day drove through roadworks and the cop was sitting there lights flashing fast asleep, and then the next day, exact same copper, fast asleep again! what a joke!

[acarmody]

For Brisbane and Se Qld in anyone night Have 20 manned police cars sitting at various road works on the highway with lights flashing doing nothing and then have the Police force say they are undermaned and under resoureced to fight crime

When a cop is doing the roadwork jobs he/she is not on rostered hours. These are counted as specials, paid for by the roadworks companies. Not using any police resources except the cars and most stations have more than enough.

So these jobs are sort of extra shifts for the cops. But yes they can still do extra stuff like speed traps and what-not while doing this.

But I agree that being asleep while doing this is irresponsible.

[ascottaudio]

Another one that REALLY bugs me.

Putting speed bumps in 40 and 50k zones that make you slow down to like 5k's cos they are so ****** big !

Surly it would make more sense to make the speed bump to a height that would slow the average car to the approximate speed of the zone !

[CSP]

Another one that REALLY bugs me.

Putting speed bumps in 40 and 50k zones that make you slow down to like 5k's cos they are so ****** big !

Surly it would make more sense to make the speed bump to a height that would slow the average car to the approximate speed of the zone !

Why? People should obey the law. If they're going faster than the speed limit then they're breaking the law. If there are speed humps it's to FORCE speeders to slow down. I think speed humps in suburban streets are a great idea!

[Stressball]

Why? People should obey the law. If they're going faster than the speed limit then they're breaking the law. If there are speed humps it's to FORCE speeders to slow down. I think speed humps in suburban streets are a great idea!

That's not the point he is making though. He is wondering why, if the limit is 40kmh, do they install speed bumps that force you to slow right down to 5-10kmh, instead of bumps you can take at 40kmh. Of course, if it can be taken safely at 40kmh, it can be taken unsafely at 80 without guarantee of damage or injury, so it wouldn't be much use. I guess this would be the reason. The point ascott is making though is that effectively it's lowering the speed limit for the period before the bump to 5kmh, instead of keeping it at the posted 40kmh.