Comments on: The City Ring Road that Melbourne never built

By: Roads & Maps

Roads & Maps — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:24:59 +0000

In reply to Marcus Wong. Broadmeadows, Camberwell and Ballarat too

By: A history of Melbourne's St Kilda Road underpass - Waking up in Geelong

A history of Melbourne's St Kilda Road underpass - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:32:37 +0000

[…] Melbourne was in the middle of a road building spree, including the City Ring Road and the Swan Street Bridge – completed in […]

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:45:56 +0000

In reply to Rohan Storey. There are a few town centres in Victoria with similar arterial roads rings around them - Footscray and Mornington come to mind.

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:44:18 +0000

In reply to Andrew S.

The ‘not quite freeway’ seems to be a common theme throughout the 1954 plan – I wonder what caused later plans to go for full controlled access?

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:52:32 +0000

In reply to Jacob.

As for Personal Rapid Transit systems – it’s a future that never seems to arrive…

https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/24/11094524/prt-transit-history-self-driving-cars-alden-starrcar-tomorrowland-1960s

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:50:36 +0000

In reply to Jacob. It is enough of a strugle to take a single lane from Hoddle Street to create a full time bus lane - what makes you think that if Melbourne had a ring road that the public would accept losing road space to create a cycleway and orbital tram route?

By: mich

mich — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:10:55 +0000

“Dodged a bullet” ?? That ring road would have been excellent ! Better than what exists now, where there is no limited access road around the north or east side of the CBD.

By: Stop Option A

Stop Option A — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:38:23 +0000

Meanwhile, the effort to pave Melbourne continues…

https://www.facebook.com/NoNorthEastLinkA/

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:27:06 +0000

Well, the benefit is we could have converted it into a fantastic cycleway and orbital tram line later on.

Do you know about PRT at Heathrow airport? I thought that would be the future of transport – 1470 mm wide pods that drive themselves and use up not much space at all.

ie, convert a 3 metre wide road lane into 2 PRT lanes that are fenced-off from normal cars.

By: Rohan Storey

Rohan Storey — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 01:08:36 +0000

That 1954 plan looks exactly like the ring roads proposed and generally built for every UK city and town – you can look at Google Maps for any town, and see some kind of wide arterial with various roundabouts, usually lined by 50s / 60s slab or tower blocks in open space. Though mostly they just ploughed through ‘slum’ inner city or even actual commercial areas rather than bothering with any tunnels.