Inner-west's bridge of sighs | Australian Herald

Inner-west's bridge of sighs

The Canberra Times Saturday 29th January, 2011

TENS of thousands of motorists will have their peak-hour journeys increased despite the NSW government spending $175 million trying to remove a notorious traffic bottleneck. The government has boasted that the project, which includes the three-lane duplication of the Iron Cove Bridge that opened late on Friday night, could shave up to 18 minutes off city-bound bus journeys along Victoria Road. But traffic experts say motorists living in Drummoyne and on the Balmain peninsula will suffer an average 30 per cent increase in the time they spend in choked residential streets trying to get on to the main road during the morning peak. Road closures, new traffic light sequences to extend green lights on Victoria Road, peak-hour bus lanes, increased clearway times and a tidal traffic flow system (a...

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