Bell St Melbourne, speed dropped to 60

[desGT]

Yes, I am amazed at the traffic Bell St carries, albeit slowly.
But, the denser the traffic, the more impossible it is to do the posted speed limit. However, most of my travel is out of peak times, so 70 was a reasonable and safe speed.
Again, I do not see the correlation in Bell St with other "local' 1 lane per direction which are also 60.
Don't start me on the ludicrous Geelong speed limits (imposed because of the amount of traffic it carries - during peak hour!!!!).

[BENT_8]

I tell ya, you can say what you like about sleepy little Adelaide, but i wouldnt give it up to move to Melbourne for quids.

Went over last fortnight as my Daughter was playing Bowls at the Moonee Ponds Bowling Club.
The trip over was fantastic, considering how many trucks use that Highway i was surprised to see how good it was...then i reached Melbourne.

We were staying at the St Georges motor inn in Thornbury and travelling by car to Moonee Ponds.
Well i've got to be perfectly honest when i say it is the worst city i have driven in.
How anyone can concentrate on whats going on around them when you're continually dodging Trams, parked cars, trying to negotiate offset crossroads to allow for trams, yellow lines, run down buildings, a blur of street lights, and the threat of unmanned tolls, fair dinkum i was on edge the whole 3 days.
At one stage i pulled up at a set of lights and there were like 4 trams waiting coming from every conceivable direction, i thought i'd taken a wrong turn and found my way into the main railway station.

I think the distance between the Motel and Bowling club was like 8k's and it took us half an hour on the Saturday evening.
At one stage i pulled up behind a tram at an intersection and everyone else was going around, i thought WTF, then i saw the driver motioning me to go around, im like, awesome, what better place to stop and have a rest than in the middle of a busy intersection in peak hour.
If it wasnt for old mate Tomtom i'd still be trying to find South Australia.

And the carparking at the Airport, a 4 lane freeway terminates at the carpark entrance which conveniently charges an arm and leg for an hours parking, we were there for 65 minutes waiting for the team to arrive by plane and it cost me $24.

Dead set, Adeladians say the best part of Victoria is the road back to Adelaide, well the best part of Melbourne is the on ramp to the Great Western...

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by BENT_8

I tell ya, you can say what you like about sleepy little Adelaide, but i wouldnt give it up to move to Melbourne for quids.............
...............
Dead set, Adeladians say the best part of Victoria is the road back to Adelaide, well the best part of Melbourne is the on ramp to the Great Western...

You obviously haven't driven in Syd

[BENT_8]

Originally Posted by GasOLane

You obviously haven't driven in Syd

Yep, lived there for a while, ran a mobile business in the western suburbs. Never had a drama, mind you that was 20yrs ago.

Driven in Brissy and Canberra too, loved Canberra, felt like home.

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by joolz

Haha used to be an 80 zone no more than 10 years ago... All to protect the children and make it safer to sit speed cameras along that $$$tretch...

Back in the olden days when everything was in black and white and speed cameras weren’t even invented, Bell St was a 75 zone. Anyone remember those signs? lol. The cops in the 80’s wouldn’t even bother pulling you up unless you were doing at least 15 k’s over the limit. Even then half the time they’d only give a ticket if you were a smart ar$e.

I remember one Saturday night in 1987, I gunned my HJ away from the lights at Gilbert Rd heading down Bell St eastbound towards St Georges Rd. Well, the copper who was sitting in the side street opposite the Shell shot me at $117. He let me off with a $135 fine for 15 to 30 over the limit. He said it was because I didn’t give him a hard time.

If anyone here remembers what Victorian cops were like in the 80’s, you wouldn’t really want to give them a hard time. Those who did sometimes ended up with “holes” in them, for extra ventilation.

[danzvtil]

Originally Posted by BENT_8

I tell ya, you can say what you like about sleepy little Adelaide, but i wouldnt give it up to move to Melbourne for quids.

Went over last fortnight as my Daughter was playing Bowls at the Moonee Ponds Bowling Club.
The trip over was fantastic, considering how many trucks use that Highway i was surprised to see how good it was...then i reached Melbourne.

We were staying at the St Georges motor inn in Thornbury and travelling by car to Moonee Ponds.
Well i've got to be perfectly honest when i say it is the worst city i have driven in.
How anyone can concentrate on whats going on around them when you're continually dodging Trams, parked cars, trying to negotiate offset crossroads to allow for trams, yellow lines, run down buildings, a blur of street lights, and the threat of unmanned tolls, fair dinkum i was on edge the whole 3 days.
At one stage i pulled up at a set of lights and there were like 4 trams waiting coming from every conceivable direction, i thought i'd taken a wrong turn and found my way into the main railway station.

I think the distance between the Motel and Bowling club was like 8k's and it took us half an hour on the Saturday evening.
At one stage i pulled up behind a tram at an intersection and everyone else was going around, i thought WTF, then i saw the driver motioning me to go around, im like, awesome, what better place to stop and have a rest than in the middle of a busy intersection in peak hour.
If it wasnt for old mate Tomtom i'd still be trying to find South Australia.

And the carparking at the Airport, a 4 lane freeway terminates at the carpark entrance which conveniently charges an arm and leg for an hours parking, we were there for 65 minutes waiting for the team to arrive by plane and it cost me $24.

Dead set, Adeladians say the best part of Victoria is the road back to Adelaide, well the best part of Melbourne is the on ramp to the Great Western...

Im Adelaide based but my previous employer was in Melbourne, I would head over there 3-4 times a year.
Melb is ok if you know where you are going, drive with a local it doesn't seem to take too long to get around.

The main diff between the 2 cities is in Adelaide, you need the Bunnings up ahead on the left, drive up to it, turn left, youre there. Melb?......up ahead on the left, sure, turn right 4 times THEN youre there...

[tapeworm]

Too many people..stop breeding thanks

[Trump]

So much for the lower speed limit being implemented in the guise of safety, just got to the parentals and what should have taken about 10 mins from where I was working to here took an hour and fifteen minutes, an hour just to get from Sydney Rd eastbound to Preston.

A rather nasty looking three car shunt (all looked like write-offs, including a light pole) on the corner of Bell St and Elizabeth St in Coburg has paralysed Bell St in both directions. I sure hope everyone involved is okay.

VicRoads, you are a pathetic sack of mixed fecal matter.