Illustration: Ron Tandberg

Average morning peak travel times on CityLink have slowed to a sub-20km/h crawl over the Bolte Bridge, making it Melbourne’s equal-worst stretch of freeway.  Speeds on the toll road are as slow now each weekday morning as they are on the Eastern Freeway between Chandler Highway and Alexandra Parade…

VicRoads’ 2010-11 Traffic Monitor report showed the problem had improved slightly but the 2011-12 report, released on Friday, reveals traffic speeds have slowed again to 2009 levels…

Luke Donnellan, Labor’s shadow minister for roads, said the state government’s commitment to building the east-west link would leave no money for other transport projects.

”The Napthine government will spend more than $8 billion part-constructing the east-west link, leaving little to no money to spend on improving other major arterial or regional roads, let alone being able to fund public transport improvements, which are desperately needed,” Mr Donnellan said… Continue Reading…