[syd] Lane cove/epping road shitty road conditions.

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:38 am

As the lane cove tunnel progresses they have slowly been making epping road a continual challenge as they divert traffic left & right while they progress with making improvements to the road. in the meantime they leave it a fricking dangerous obstacle course of ground down bitumen and badly marked abrupt changes in road direction. i've had a few close calls in the past, but they have excelled themselves this time.

But the worst i've seen so far was this morning when going north along epping road under the pacific hwy the left lane had about 20+meters of roadplates. The only reason i noticed them was that they had a "caution road plates" sign on the left of the road just before them, the curve in the road hid them until you were right upon them. Also i don't recall more than 1 or two of the 5-6 plates with the anti-slip surface stuff on them.

This was bad enough, but then it'd been raining enough to bring the crap out onto the surface of the bitumen, which had then been dragged onto the plates. Ended up riding the centre track which was the only dry bit. Also some nasty and very uneven bitumen edging on it too.

So watch yourselves if your going to be heading down epping road towards the warringah freeway.

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:34 am

Sounds like you did well to keep it rubber side down Mike. That part of the world is a real shit fight although hopefully it'll all be better in the end, no doubt just in time for the state election.

red_dave · Post by **red_dave** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:01 am

Bloody Lane Cove Tunnel...

MickLC · Post by **MickLC** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:37 am

Isn't there someone that you can complain to about the plates? I'm pretty certain I've read about it in AMCN.

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:50 am

red_dave wrote:Bloody Lane Cove Tunnel...

Suck it up big fella. Us Westies will be able to get closer to you city folk in about 15 minutes less time now.

MickLC · Post by **MickLC** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:46 pm

This months AMCN has a story on the steel plates. As of 1/10/06 Quality Assurance Specification 3368 requires a coloured, skid resistant coating on the plates. They say that illegal steel plates should be reported to http://www.reporthazard.com.au