[QLD] Drivers: learn to read signs!!

**maca** · 04-11-2009, 12:54 AM

Can't believe how many people are getting caught out by the changed traffic conditions on Coronation Drive leading to the ICB. It's clearly marked by signs and road markings! Even though this is a semi-rant, it's quite funny watching people panic and merge across two lanes to get to the over pass. I can say with confidence though that none of us would ever get caught out; we're far too intelligent and our driving quality and hazard perception is far beyond non-VAG car users

Good job! Limiting inbound Coronation Drive to two lanes surely won't create traffic problems, especially in peak hour

**DionM** · 04-11-2009, 12:57 AM

Tell me about it. My lovely Jetta nearly got cleaned up by 3 clowns darting across from the right lane to the left at the last minute. Idiots.

Personally I think they should have extended a temporary concrete dividing barrier about 150m-200m further back down towards the Riverside Expressway, before you can "see" where the road goes, so that all the idiots who were sailing along unaware didn't try and change lanes at the last minute, and force them to continue driving to Milton and then come back that way.

Like what it looks like they're going to do on the SE Freeway, with the long barrier preventing people trying to dark from Juliette St onramp (inbound) across to the tunnel entry.

**team_v** · 04-11-2009, 07:27 AM

The worst part is the 40 sign at the Margaret Street offramp heading from Stanley Street.
Everyone drops to 40km/h and there is no road work for another km or 2.

Don't even get me started on the "roadworks ahead slow down" sign s with no one working or the guys on the footpath with no restriction to vehicles required

**Greg Roles** · 04-11-2009, 07:42 AM

To be fair Maca, that area is a clusterf#$k at the moment, and has been a challenge for some time, whatever direction you approached it. New offramps etc always produce confusion, and will do so for a while. Lets just hope no-one gets killed in the meantime!

**maca** · 04-11-2009, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by cogdoc

To be fair Maca, that area is a clusterf#$k at the moment, and has been a challenge for some time, whatever direction you approached it. New offramps etc always produce confusion, and will do so for a while. Lets just hope no-one gets killed in the meantime!

You're absolutely right! Living in Toowong, I'm over having to use Coronation Drive everytime I need to go somewhere. And as you've said even before these recent changes, it was a fight to get anywhere in time

I wonder if Michael J Fox is finished with that Delorean yet...?

**Swallowtail** · 04-11-2009, 09:32 AM

I was commenting on this last night - you'd have to be mentally retarded / blind / on another planet (not that there is anything wrong with any of those things) to not see the signs as you come up the Riverside Expressway about the changed circumstances ahead. Unbelievable and scary the drivers that have that little situational awareness.

I actually think they've done a brilliant job of setting the temporary alignment to get 4 lanes around the wrong side of the overpass and then back over to get around the railway bridge abutment.