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Lane Cove Tunnel Rocks, then Stops

By Nick Hodge | March 26, 2007

A drive to work nor­mally takes me 45 minutes, and is around 12Kms from home.

Today, with the open­ing of the Lane Cove Tun­nel and onramp from Fal­con Street to the middle of the War­ringah Free­way (which should have been done in the first place) I can get to work within 22 minutes, and 10Kms to work. This was at 8:19am (peak time for Mil­it­ary Road)

Leaving Home at reset 0 on Megan's Clock

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I was into the Lane Cove Tun­nel within 10 minutes of leav­ing home; the bulk of the time on the trip was at the Epping Road/Delhi Road end. Even here, the flow rate was acceptable.

Military Road, Outer Lane, City-bound 5 Cars going onto Freeway Light Traffic Into the Tunnel

There are three lanes head­ing toward Epping Road as the Pacific High­way in-coming traffic gets its own lane until the end of the Tunnel.

3 Lanes of Traffic

Only con­ten­tions are now the 5 traffic lights on Mil­it­ary Road (although the far right lane flowed extremely well) and the two on Delhi Road. Also, the single lane from dual lane just over the M2 over­pass is a bot­tle­neck. So arriv­ing at the inter­sec­tion at 8:32, I was in the Microsoft car park at 8:41am

Exit to North Ryde, not M2 Please Delhi Road Single Lane Issue

From memory, the Delhi Road con­ten­tion was pre­dicted as a poten­tional prob­lem; how­ever it is no dif­fer­ent to norm­ing morn­ing traffic.

PM Update: Even­ing run took 15 minutes for 10.2 Kms. Low traffic in tun­nel, and the free­way and the exit to Fal­con Street. Usu­ally, this trip is at least 40 minutes for 12 Kms.

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2 Responses to “Lane Cove Tunnel Rocks, then Stops”

  1. Vincenze Says:
    March 26th, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    On Sunday mid­day, traffic going into the city was diver­ted away from the tun­nel, some­thing was amiss in their… It was like peak hour.

    v.

  2. hodgenick Says:
    March 26th, 2007 at 12:18 pm

    Accord­ing to the news last night, someone acci­dently opened the gates 40minutes too early!

    Ooops.

    All is good today, tho’

    I won­der what tonight will bring?

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