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Daily Discussion Thread 🥰🛫🏞️🏜️🏙️🌉 Tuesday, August 6, 2024 (aussie.zone)

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[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I travel into Melbourne for work. About an hour and a half drive.

I used to come in via Sunbury Rd near the airport but that route has shit itself getting in or out since roadwork is increasing. So I’ve started using the Calder and Ring Road near Keilor.

I thought the Sunbury Rd area was dangerous. Jesus Christ, if you decide to ever drive on the Ring Road you’re really just hoping you don’t die. Just the short stretch to get back on the freeway out of Melbourne is basically a suicide run.

Has it always been like this?

[–] SituationCake@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. Clogged with tailgating trucks, aggressive drivers, people who don’t know indicators exist, debris on the road, short on ramps, etc. The roads north and west of Melbourne are the Mad Max zones. Source: commuted on these roads for many years, glad I don’t have to do it any more.

[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

They are also quite terrifying when you don't drive them very often - there are a bunch of intersections that are pretty much impossible to navigate if you are not familiar with them. You get in the wrong lane and end up on a freeway going in completely the wrong direction.

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago

It feels like just trying to get anywhere in melbourne completely sucks. I'd say for the last 10 years but probably longer

[–] Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I kind of feel Melbourne’s endless roadworks has made that inevitable.

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The ring road is hell. All roads leading into Melbourne actually lead to hell.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

I’ve been driving in for nearly 3 years from Castlemaine/Bendigo area but avoided the ring road until now. I’d only heard stories…