Road closures, rail disruptions coming to Civic
Sections of Northbourne Avenue will close over two weekends in October, with buses replacing all light rail services for another weekend as construction continues on the extension to Commonwealth Park.
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Light rail services between Gungahlin Place and Alinga Street will be replaced by buses for the first weekend of July to allow construction work on Light Rail Stage 2A.
Traffic heading south on Northbourne Avenue through the intersection of Bunda Street will be monitored for speed and red light offences from the end of this month.
A Fisher man allegedly reached 130km/h on Northbourne last night (July 17), drove at on-foot officers deploying stop sticks, and broke an officer's leg.
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Letters
Northbourne speed limit is wrong, wrong, wrong!
Reader GIL MILLER has been fined three times for unwittingly exceeding the new 40km/h limits on Northbourne Avenue. He's having panic attacks worrying if he's been caught again.
"On affordable and social housing on Northbourne Avenue, Rebecca Vassarotti committed to looking at that and having more conversations. How long have the ACT Greens been in government?" asks "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
Amid the uproar of the speed limit of a section of Northbourne Avenue being lowered to 40km/h, planning professional DAVID JONES* argues it's still too high.
"The new towers are collectively delivering a new suburban-sized residential population. It is as if there is a new suburb called Northbourne that includes those living 100 metres either side of the corridor," writes PAUL COSTIGAN.
"Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN casts an eye across three new additions to the Canberra architectural landscape.
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