What is the worst commute in Canberra, and which suburb has the most traffic? | The Canberra Times

The commute from Throsby to Civic was pushed by Lucy Arundell. She drove down Horse Park Drive, turning into Flemington Highway earlier than driving onto Northbourne Avenue.

The route was pretty clear that morning, with a number of inexperienced lights easing site visitors flows. A bicycle owner saved up with the site visitors from the flip onto Northbourne Avenue at Epic to Braddon, the place he outstripped the queued automobiles and continued into town.

The longest delay was turning proper from Northbourne into Barry Drive. Three gentle cycles handed earlier than she was in a position to get by way of the intersection.

In keeping with Chris Dutton, the each day journey from Belconnen to Civic often comes right down to little choices.

“It is simple to get caught within the Belco vortex – a time period between 7.59am and eight.45am when morning commuters appear pleased to take a seat in gridlock,” Chris stated.

Chris stated his navigation instructed him the journey to work can be 22 minutes, which he was sceptical about.

It was fairly clean crusing till simply after the William Hovel Drive interchange, the place site visitors began to crawl.

“Lane selection right here is essential. Decide the unsuitable one and also you’re both caught in idle or drivers in a rush will not allow you to merge,” Chris stated.

“It wasn’t the worst I might seen Parkes Means, however there was an enormous backlog turning onto Edinburgh Avenue – the worst I might seen it in years.”

For Caden Helmers driving from Karabar in Queanbeyan, there are a couple of choices when you “soar behind the wheel in God’s nation”.

He stated driving down Canberra Avenue was comparatively clean crusing as soon as he was previous Lowe Avenue, which had floor to a halt throughout faculty drop-offs.

However Caden stated as soon as drivers attain the sting of town on Commonwealth Avenue, they could as nicely get snug as a result of they will not be sitting down at their desks in a rush.

“Edinburgh Avenue is usually a actual battle, and – relying whenever you get there – the sluggish crawl by way of there would possibly add a couple of minutes to no matter your GPS is telling you,” he stated.

Karleen Minney began at Mawson Woolworths, the place the site visitors moved very well by way of Yarra Glen and onto Adelaide Avenue even when three lanes needed to merge into two.

That was proper up till Commonwealth Avenue.

“If we weren’t stopped fully, we had been chugging alongside at 5 to eight km per hour. I stroll sooner than 5 km per hour,” Karleen stated.

“On the bridge, the very left-hand lane is totally closed to site visitors, and despite the fact that clearly marked, folks had been scooting up this lane to drag in entrance of the queue on the merge level, as if they had been an emergency automobile or a bus with privileges.”

It then took Karleen 5 – 6 site visitors gentle adjustments to make it to the Marcus Clarke Avenue intersections into town, after “begging and pleading along with your fellow man” to merge into the furthest left lane.

Sally Pryor lives in Stirling, and her drive to work through Telopea Park College often takes round 35 minutes. On this event, she stated the commute was greater than 40, primarily due to the epic site visitors jam attributable to “nothing obvious” on Commonwealth Avenue Bridge.

“I’ve observed this one particularly getting worse, and particularly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.”

After all, if Sally did not take the youngsters to high school the commute can be 12 to fifteen minutes, straight down the Tuggeranong Parkway.

For Megan Doherty, her journey from Wanniassa to the Metropolis West automobile park took simply over 51 minutes, minus 11 for the time it took to drop her daughter to high school.

“And it wasn’t the fault of the Tuggers Parkway!” she stated.

“I had an important run on the parkway. If something, there was extra congestion for site visitors heading south, particularly across the Glenloch Interchange.

“Then, after all, all of it turned to custard turning onto Parkes Means the place the city-bound site visitors was very slow-going.”

The slowest commute was from Mawson, with a median velocity of simply 21.5kmh.

And the quickest? Queanbeyan was the quickest commute when distance was factored in, however even then the common velocity solely simply cracked 40kmh.

So which is definitely the worst commute? Any that presently go close to London Circuit, in keeping with our journalists, with the sunshine rail works considerably delaying site visitors circulation.

And if there is a crash on any of the principle roads all of it comes aside in a short time, with site visitors banking up and little room to bypass lanes into town.