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