It’s absolutely atrocious now; was going it might be temporary due to roadworks elsewhere, or bus replacements due to train works.
Makes my commute cancer, and I don’t even have the option to take public transport instead 😭
Comment on Discussion Thread: Thursday, 20 March 2025
just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 weeks agoMore return to office mandates is my guess.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’ve been going down a good length of the Monash counter peak a couple days a week the last 3 weeks for work, and I always look at the peak direction hellscape with a mix of horror, pity, and depression. It’s horrible. Even at 7:30am it’s backed up in Dandenong…
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s what I’ve been experiencing as of late, too. Inbound, where the Gippy Hwy joins onto the Monash is slows to a crawl, then picks up until the Eastlink merge, where it slows to a crawl and continues until around Warrigal Rd where (thanks to the added lane?) it opens up again.
Now I’m to try and avoid the impact I have to either leave at before 6am or after 9:30am in order to have a somewhat decent (sub-45 minute) run into the office; but at least I’m lucky enough to have that flexibility!
just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Definitely milk that flexibility as much as you can. Spending all that time and energy stuck in (and causing) traffic is not how we were meant to spend our lives as humans 😭
SituationCake@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s economically rubbish all round. More costs for government: More wear and tear on roads, more road accidents; Bad for environment: more petrol burnt, more pollution; Bad for employers: Less productivity, cranky staff, more leasing costs for offices, less access to talent because geographical restrictions; Bad for the employees: less personal time and family time, bad for kids, bad for community, and cost of commuting mean less money to spend elsewhere so cost of living impact. It’s completely ridiculous anyone would try to claim it has net positives, it’s nothing but a power trip for shitty employers. But this is the world we live in. There’s no sense to it.