I am severely tact deficient right now, so if I sound angry, it's not at you.
1. What felching "crack"? There is lots of signage point people off towards Flemington, but none whatsoever saying why. 2. If there is a crack, is it an emergency fix, or part of the building works? If the former, then some slackness with notification is allowable, but if it's planned works, then it's inexcusable. There was less disruption and more notification when they were rebuilding the entire roundabout. 3. If it is planned works, seriously, WTF? They have unilaterally closed off one of the main thoroughfares in the city with no warning. If this was planned, then there was not the slightest skerrick of warning, not even a handwritten note at a tram stop. 4. If the block of Royal Pde just south of Grattan St is closed off for works (see points 1, 2 and 3 for what I think of that and how it has been handled), why then has all traffic been blocked from the south who want to go back south again??? Even one lane open allowing traffic to move from northbound Elizabeth and northbound Peel around to southbound Elizabeth would be an improvement. The thing is, there is no works on that blocked-off section of the roundabout (they're [ab]using it as a carpark), and traffic eastbound from Flemington road is allowed round to enter Elizabeth southbound. Why can't the northbound traffic go around? As it is, that traffic still has to turn around, and can still enter Grattan st on the other side of the old hospital site, or go around the south and onto Elizabeth, but now the first place it's possible to do this is at the entrance to the Hospital carpark. Obviously, co-opting the turning lane for entering a hospital is a far better solution than leaving even one lane open of a roundabout designed (hah!) for the purpose. If they were to do that, then they might actually have something for the three slow-sign holders to do besides wave on traffic with nowhere else to go anyway.
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Date: 2012-10-15 12:31 am (UTC)1. What felching "crack"? There is lots of signage point people off towards Flemington, but none whatsoever saying why.
2. If there is a crack, is it an emergency fix, or part of the building works? If the former, then some slackness with notification is allowable, but if it's planned works, then it's inexcusable. There was less disruption and more notification when they were rebuilding the entire roundabout.
3. If it is planned works, seriously, WTF? They have unilaterally closed off one of the main thoroughfares in the city with no warning. If this was planned, then there was not the slightest skerrick of warning, not even a handwritten note at a tram stop.
4. If the block of Royal Pde just south of Grattan St is closed off for works (see points 1, 2 and 3 for what I think of that and how it has been handled), why then has all traffic been blocked from the south who want to go back south again??? Even one lane open allowing traffic to move from northbound Elizabeth and northbound Peel around to southbound Elizabeth would be an improvement. The thing is, there is no works on that blocked-off section of the roundabout (they're [ab]using it as a carpark), and traffic eastbound from Flemington road is allowed round to enter Elizabeth southbound. Why can't the northbound traffic go around? As it is, that traffic still has to turn around, and can still enter Grattan st on the other side of the old hospital site, or go around the south and onto Elizabeth, but now the first place it's possible to do this is at the entrance to the Hospital carpark. Obviously, co-opting the turning lane for entering a hospital is a far better solution than leaving even one lane open of a roundabout designed (hah!) for the purpose. If they were to do that, then they might actually have something for the three slow-sign holders to do besides wave on traffic with nowhere else to go anyway.