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Clearway gets you nowhere
02May08
Traffic jams as far as the eye can see. That's the situation confronting peak hour commuters to and from the Central Coast since the closure of Woy Woy Rd.
THOUSANDS of motorists are stuck twice daily in huge traffic jams as the closure of Woy Woy Rd causes gridlock each morning and evening peak period.
Motorists are reporting delays of more than one hour each way and even up to three hours as traffic banks up.
They are being forced on to other already clogged alternative arterial roads.
In the morning, traffic on Brisbane Water Drive banks back to Tascott as commuters try to get through the Central Coast Highway intersection and up Kariong Hill.
School students and workers trying to get down the hill are also banked back because the intersection cannot cope with demand.
Debenham Rd, the back road down the mountain, is also becoming clogged as people with local knowledge try to use it as an alternative.
The problem flows back into Manns Rd, West Gosford, where heavy vehicles and factory workers get caught in the jam at the intersection.
Similarly, motorists who try to use the Ourimbah interchange add to the usual jam trying to get through the Pacific Highway and Chittaway Rd intersection and roadworks.
Cars coming from Gosford queue back to Lisarow and cars coming along Enterprise Drive also queue for kilometres.
In the afternoon, the situation is worse with cars heading in the opposite direction queued back to the F3 entrances at Ourimbah and Kariong.
Those leaving the F3 at Kariong now face a traffic jam stretching more than 5km every night.
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