So we are nearly up to 1 year of this so called continuous flow intersection and was wondering what people thought?
Personally I think it has been a massive failure.
Main reasons are (in peak hour):
Traveling from the east on Swan St is now insane, can easily take 25 minutes to get from the Coles to the actual intersection where as this used to take 5 minutes tops. They took 2 lanes straight through and 2 turning lanes onto Punt Road and turned this into 1 P turn lane and 1 lane straight ahead and that 1 lane now extends to under the train line.
Traveling from North to South on Punt Rd to turn right onto Olympic Blvd seems to be completely unchanged, also when you actually get a green light to turn, often the left hand of the 2 lanes is blocked by people who are doing the P turn the other direction (South to North, turning Right into Swan St) or people who tried to fit on the other side of the intersection (that will make sense to those who drive through it).
Traveling West to East on Olympic Blvd is not too bad if you want to turn onto Punt Rd, it is probably a few minutes worse than before the intersection was complete, going straight through to Swan St seems to be much worse though.
Just can't understand why we wasted so much taxpayer money on something that has made little improvement if any. Interested to see how others feel.
Most of the traffic is going North South so that's where they improved it most. Going South to North turning right into Swan street, cars used to build up and block the through roads. I agree though it does suck a bit harder if you are going West down to Alexandra Ave/City road, there's no other way of getting down that way unfortunately.