Gungahlin Drive now fully open.. Finally!

Written by Dave Bockett Tuesday, 11 October 2011 09:21

After seven years of construction and costing almost $200 million the full Gunaghlin Drive is now open.

"Millions of dollars of ratepayers' money was unnecessarily spent on duplicating the road because ''John Hargreaves, when he was transport minister, wouldn't listen when we said two lanes wouldn't be enough'' said GCC spokesperson Alan Kerlin.

Mr Hargreaves is quoted as saying he couldn't recall the council telling him the road should be four lanes. He said the Government always intended to build four lanes but didn't have the money to do it.

Alan also said he was grateful the road was opened but questioned why it could not be 90km/h to 100km/h on the section from Mitchell to the Glenloch Interchange. ''It's the only four-lane divided road out of Gungahlin and it seems a little counter-productive to have such an important road throttled down to 80km/h,''