Contra lane on F3 still needs work.

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Another thread prompted me to post this one. Last Saturday at 330am a truck travelling south towards Sydney at near the top of the hill after Ourimbah lost a 45ft concrete pilon. We were travelling north at approx 11am. From before we entered the F3 at Waroongah the overhead signs said long delays, during the next half hour or so heading towards the area we were checking iphone for alternate routes but we decided to continue. We were held up for about an hour and a half in a 7km traffic jam. No probs there, our fault, but when we were in that jam the news reports were saying our side was 7km long and only 100mtrs on the crash side WTF? When we got to where the lanes were changed we found no traffic on our side comming from the other side, our side reduced from 3 to 1 lane. Whilst in the jam I also noticed the southbound traffic was seemingly flowing quite well. Why was our side reduced to 1 lane? Why were we being penalised so much when we could have been given 2 lanes of 3 not 1. Why had our side been allowed to bank up for 7k when little or no hold up on the other side? The radio reports from the helicopters above were all saying less than 1k southbound and 7k northbound during that hour and a half. I have travelled the F3 many times and have found that when the signs say long delays or expect delays that this isnt always the case. Nowadays they give travel times for sections of the freeway so why can't they say approx how long the delay is. It's obvious the contra lane system still needs work.