can you believe it......a 50 mile traffic jam on the M25 tonight. Can't ever be that bad in Oz????

Don't bet on it chief !!!!!!!!!

It took me 30 mins to get onto the Gateway Highway on Thursday, i only had to travel 3kms to get on it
And guess what, when i eventually did get on it, WHAT WAS THE HOLD UP Dunno ????????
Everything was moving sweet !!!!!

Maybe i was in the Twilight Zone

so how does traffic compare in general to UK?

I must be in the twilight zone most mornings, I travel about 14 mile to work and do an average of 12 miles an hour. yep I know I'm a sad git I actually worked this out!!! Where is my life going!!! I love my car... but not that much!!!

The amount of traffic is not the problem, it's the drivers. Honestly i've seen so many crashes it's untrue!!!!

I thought drivers in the Uk were bad, but over here it's in another league. :scared:

I went back to the UK for a visit in january for 2 weeks, and I had forgotten how busy it was!! my parents live right behind the M25 a few miles from the QE2 bridge and I must say I was taken back by how much traffic there was. It was a constant roar day and night and nobody has any courtesy on the road either. I had got so used to pulling out on people here and getting the 'whatever' sort of attitude, when I did the same in the UK I just got absolute abuse. No wonder everyone seems so stressed back in the UK!!! I must say I was glad to be home (Aus) again, and I live near Sydney!! People that have lived here all their life moan about the traffic around Sydney but to be honest nothing compares to where I come from!!

Apparently a truck lost its load near the Capalaba exit - second one this week. With the amount of traffic on the Gateway, it only takes a mnor hiccup to block things up.

I think you could blame V8 motorsport-mania and Hollywood movies for their attitude.

where exactly is capalaba

Generally the traffic flows a lotter better here, in Melbourne, than it did in London. Although people may be able to pick out specific incidents where the traffic has been slow here, they are nothing in comparison to the stuff back in the UK. A few years back it, on Christmas Eve, it took 2 hours just to get out of the Tesco's carpark :scared: (and that happened 2 years in a row).

if theres more that 12 cars on the nicklin highway (between caloundra and maroochydore qld) then the 'natives' complain about 'traffic jams'. they should try the m5 on a sunday evening!

I once missed a flight from Brisbane airport one sunday afternoon because of traffic over the Gateway bridge (and I had left early so as to arrive at least 1 hour before the departure time).

It actually took me a full hour to drive from the toll gates to the airport turnoff (maybe 3 Km?) and the reason for the hold up? Main Roads had one lane closed off between the Eagle Farm exit and the airport exit so they could change a light bulb on a street lamp.

The repair crew suffered some abuse thast day!

Agreed. If you drive in rush hour traffic it is poor here, but not as bad as the SE. I drove in today for the first time in 3 months and it was particularly bad.

I notice the rush hour in Melbourne is shorter; leave work as 'early' as 6.30pm to avoid the rush and the traffic has died down completely.

We don't get 80k jams in Melbourne, maybe 20k jams.

Or the Bruce Highway to Brisbane on Sunday afternoon. You need to compare like with like - The road you mention is the Nicklin Way, its not a Highway.

Have you got a link to this? I want to have a look at what I left behind! I can find nothing on BBC online.