Sick of traffic

[norm]

Record was 4 hours 13 min.

From Lidcombe to Surry Hills, sorry I find it just too hard to believe, unless your car was out of action. That distance is no more than 20-23km tops. The only way that could happen is if Parramatta Rd, Victoria Rd, Hume Hwy was blocked off and every single major arterial Rd was closed.
I could get to Sydney to Maitland in that time.

Traffic in Sydney IS bad, no denying that and yes at times one bingle can lead to a major domino affect, but lets be realistic.

BTW: I use to live in Sth Granville and travelled to Alexandria in the mid 80's, left around similar times and at worse 45mins tops.

[xelasnave]

This is not entirely relevant but dont you hate when they put up barriers and speed limits for road work and you drive along at the correct speed and there is not one worker in site ... or to sit at an automatic traffic control (lights and genny in a car trailer) whilst its red and notice all the workers are in the shed having a cuppa . But what can you do about traffic increases? building more roads only brings more traffic and that is a fact unfortunately... I know we need a tax .. anyone found in a traffic congested situation shall pay a congestion tax the money raised can go to building more roads .. All you can do it to tell yourself...I dont mind being in a car in traffic stalled situations its a time to relax and enjoy the world on either side of me/you . and comptemplate that maybe somethings are beyonds ones personal control and should not attract emotional input .
alex

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

From Lidcombe to Surry Hills

Other way round, Surry Hills to Lidcombe, coming home from work in the afternoon (4:00) on the Thursday before good Friday with an accident outside the Flemo markets outbound and one on the western freeway outbound. Remember at that time the western freeway didn't start until you got to the old Five Dock turn off halfway along Parramatta road. Don't know what it's like now as I've never been back

Believe me it was that long. Bumper to bumper from the Uni just past Glebe Point Rd.

[Dujon]

I'm with others, Geoff, count your blessings.

Years ago (I now work from home) I used to use public transport to the Sydney CBD - about 65Km away. Good; plenty of time to sleep or read or catch up on a bit of work - but often inconvenient and often disrupted. A twenty minute stroll, downhill, in the morning prior to boarding the train followed by a ten minute walk, uphill, to my office wasn't all that bad. Reverse that for the trip home. The train (in theory) was supposed to take just on the hour from embarkment to disembarkment. So that's three hours to-and-froing plus work time. It would be a rare day indeed to spend less than 12 hours away from home.

Traffic: Worse than public transport in some respects, particularly if you chose or were forced to travel in peak hours. For the last two or three years of my commuting life I was fortunate enough to be able to drive to my 'new' office. This was an IT department some 7Km my side of the CBD. I organised the appropriate access authorisation and left home each day at 05:00. By 05:35 I would be sitting at my desk. OK, while I cannot unequivocally deny that I broke the odd speed limit I'm not prepared to say that I did so. Coming home though was a different matter. Should I stay on for an extra couple of hours (not a rare event) I'd join the caterpillar of steel and rubber heading west. Average time on those occasions? Around an hour and a half to two hours.

That was more than fifteen years ago. I have no idea (and have no intent to check it by doing a run) what it's like these days. I very much doubt that it has improved.

Did I say 'count your blessings'?

[Karls48 (Karl)]

For 15 years I used to drive from Leura in Blue Mountains to Castle Hill, 168km round trip. 4 to 5 hours every day. About 5 years ago I gave up and moved to Western Sydney. But I still miss Leura.

[DobDobDob (Ron)]

Originally Posted by Karls48

About 5 years ago I gave up and moved to Western Sydney.

Your distance reads 84 k's from me, I'm in Western Sydney at Prospect, I didn't think the west of Sydney extended 84 k's

[mickoking]

Originally Posted by rogerg

That's amazing. Surely there's a point at which people would move to a job closer to home, or move home to a location closer to their work?

Probably too expensive to move closer to work and jobs close to home are probably too low paid.

I have lived in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne and I must say many Sydney-siders think nothing of traveling 90 mins each way to work not to mention paying tolls for the privilege.
However, Perth is getting worse. A combination of a high growth rate, lack of urban planning (urban sprawl) and minimal public transport is making commuting here a real pain.
The simple life looks real good

[Karls48 (Karl)]

Tailwag, no more then 15km from Mt. Druitt. But my coordinates are from GPS.

[DobDobDob (Ron)]

okay, how come there is such a discrepancy, I don't get it

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by tailwag

okay, how come there is such a discrepancy, I don't get it

This is what I see about you:

Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Prospect, NSW, 2148
Distance: 332km
Posts: 465

332km..... you are in Prospect (Parramatta area) and I'm near Appin/Campbelltown. Me thinks this doesn't work or your coordinates aren't correctly entered.

[Dujon]

Err, Omaroo, I'm not being combative but: Your coordinates show you as 322Km from me (Blaxland). Are your Cooma references in your profile rather than those of Appin/Campbelltown?

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by Dujon

Err, Omaroo, I'm not being combative but: Your coordinates show you as 322Km from me (Blaxland). Are your Cooma references in your profile rather than those of Appin/Campbelltown?

LOL!! Of course they were. I changed them months ago and intended to change them back to my usual address - Appin/Campbelltown - but completely forgot!

Thanks for the heads-up. Now you're only 44km away!

[Dujon]

Thank the heavens for that. It'll save me filling up the tank when I finally get around to dropping in.

[cahullian]

It takes me about 45 mins to get to work in the morning leaving around 8 am but i have to pick up 2 people who live in the opposite direction and then drop them off about 10 mins out of my way. Getting home is a straight drive with no pick ups and it takes about 15 mins. You gotta love Newcastle traffic.

Gazz

[DobDobDob (Ron)]

I see whilst I slept that all has been resolved with the distance to and from most of us, however, the original GPS issue has not been resolved. I know my coordinates are correct, so I am assuming that Karl's GPS coordinates aren't.

Just to make sure of Karl's Mt. Druitt coordinates, I checked them and they are:

Latitude: -33.76880
Longitude: 150.81884

Is this what you have entered Karl?

[ving (David)]

i am in campbelltown too... it shows that chris and astronut (john) live with me and that mt druitt is 105km away!

[DobDobDob (Ron)]

Originally Posted by ving

i am in campbelltown too... it shows that chris and astronut (john) live with me and that mt druitt is 105km away!

Have you taken into account the rotation of your head spins from that flu medicine you have been drinking

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by ving

i am in campbelltown too... it shows that chris and astronut (john) live with me and that mt druitt is 105km away!

I was wondering what that scratching around in our back room during the night was.........

[Karls48 (Karl)]

Ron, my coordinates were wrong. I converted D.M.S to decimal using calculator for which I got no instruction. I just press keys that had right symbols on it and did no question answer it gave me. I recalculated it manually and it seems to be right now
I’m the type who reads manuals as last resort and sometimes I pay for it.

[Karls48 (Karl)]

I forgot to add that it shows if the coordinates are correct distance calculation on IIS is accurate