Geelong Bypass

Bodizephr · 23-11-2009, 08:55 AM

All of you local to geelong would know of our wonderful new addition, the geelong bypass or ring road. I have two questions about this road:

1) What mentally retarded individual decided that visitors to our fair city or passers by, should remember geelong by 12ft pieces of brightly coloured perspex? Is this meant to be geelongs answer to melbournes yella-peril?

2) How is it that after less than 12 months of operation, the ring road is undergoing MAJOR resurfacing works? Surely after they had to dig it up once already since sealing it because they were penny pinching, the man signing the cheques would have said, "you know what, just do it right!". How did we get into this position?

**Polyal** · 23-11-2009, 09:42 AM

1) It is puke worthy

2) Cheap unskilled labour would be my guess

Im going to be shattered when they get around to speed cameras along that new stretch. You feel so free once you go past Nth geelong.

Mark351 · 23-11-2009, 11:09 AM

Those coloured perspex bits bewildered me as well, horrible.

EDManual · 23-11-2009, 11:11 AM

I remember they were saying they would put down a "spray surface" instead of hotmix as it would save some cash?..... I thought it was a dumb idea at the time too!

baboon · 23-11-2009, 11:48 AM

The coloured perspex looks real bad.

I was thinking the same thing about the re-surfacing. Does the council/government have cash to splurge?

Ducati888 · 23-11-2009, 12:02 PM

It was all to do with the politics behind the Federal road grants from the previous Fed government and the state govenrment.

Feds offered money and the state wouldn't take it on their terms, so went cheap and funded it themselves from what I gather.

It's a great piece of road. Anthing that keeps you out of Geelong itself can't be bad. Having grown up in the region, and my family still being there (Drysdale), I detest having to go through it at any time, particularly since every time I do there seems to be a new set of lights in the place. The changes to traffic conditions in central Geelong are retrograde for those wanting to go to the peninsula. I'ts gonna be nutso in summer.

I think they are aiming for one set of traffic lights per head of population soon.

Geelong. The best thing about it is watching it get smaller in your rear view mirror.

EDManual · 23-11-2009, 01:34 PM

Ring road doesnt help people on the bellarine, thats true, however it sure has cleared up a lot of traffic on the old highway so it helps in this way.

Just wish they would sequence the lights instead of slowing down the through traffic by making them catch every set!!

My pet hate is lights that change when no ones there, and give green lights to pedestrians when theres none! Why!!!

Franco Cozzo · 23-11-2009, 03:00 PM

Council - Not enough time to do it right, always time to do it again!

bArNsY · 23-11-2009, 03:44 PM

Road is getting resurfaced as it was a winter coat and the hot weather had stripped the top surface, the resurfacing was put forward a month thats why it is getting done atm.
Many of your questions have been answered in the Geelong Advertiser, grab a copy sometime

Bodizephr · 23-11-2009, 03:56 PM

bARNSY - the addy may have answered that, except it doesnt answer how the city of greater geelong has allowed a road to be put down that is requireing this kind fo work, mearly 12 months after opening? Have they never built a road in geelong? Unsure of what surface to put on it? I have lived on settlement road for nearlly 2 years and it hasnt needed re-surfacing due to "hot weather stripping the winter coat off". WTF is a winter coat neway? Besides the ring road was opened to waurn ponds in decemeber last year was it not? Why would you put a winter coat on a road opening at the start of summer.

Sounds like a load of hogwash, coated in a thin layer of male bovine excrement. Oh thats right you said it came from the addy. Thought it smelt bad.

bArNsY · 24-11-2009, 10:44 AM

Give Vic Roads a call I am sure they will be more than happy to address your concerns.

The issue I have about the Geelong bypass is when are they going to upgrade the back roads like Mt Duneed Rd, Boundary Rd and Whites Rd, the roads are a mess with the sudden increase on traffic. I am just glad I finished up uni before all the roadworks in Waurn Ponds.

Bossxr8 · 24-11-2009, 06:32 PM

The current surface was only temporary, so the road could be opened sooner. Apparently the permanent surface can only be layed in summer, and if the temporary surface was not used the road would have been kept closed until the permanent surface could be layed, so now that summer has come around they will rip the old surface up and lay the new one.