The World’s Longest One Way Freeway: Rise and Fall
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2021
- The Southern Expressway in Adelaide took the title for the world’s longest one way road. Why was it built? And why did it its reign end?
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Back when it was one way, almost everybody in Adelaide joked that the Southern Expressway would be great once it was finished.
Yep like all liberal government ideas and liberal themself one huge joke
@@southaussiegarbo2054 Lol I love how in some replies down here there's people blaming labor, and now I've seen someone blaming the liberals xD I don't have a dog in this fight at all it's just hilarious to me
@@4bidn1 well liberals are in power now and have made it worse then it was under labor....after all liberal did get allot our tram system ripped out in like 2000 lol. Labor put it back and liberal already plan on ripping it out again 😂😂😂😂
@@southaussiegarbo2054 No need to convince me! As I said my friend, I have no dog in this fight. The whole system is corrupt and was built on a foundation of sand. I conscientiously object from voting for that exact reason, it would be morally wrong for me to put my name on a vote I don't believe in, so I don't bother at all :^) Whoever fucked it up, they suck. And whoever fixes it probably sucks too. fuck politics, quit society, return to monke
One thing that nobody mentions when it comes to the "One Way Freeway" is that South Australia has the Ultimate Benefit of not having money hungry Private Toll Road Companies that just increase the tolls whenever they like, FOREVER, anywhere in the state. This is one of the best things about South Australia. All of our Highways, Freeways etc. are FREE to use and always will be, due to the states laws. I am proud that SA hasn't sold it's soul to the Toll Road Devils.
tollways suck so much
I loved the idea that we had it. It worked. I was proud of it. I knew that it was going to cost more to make it 2 way many years later. If anyone didn't realise that then they were naive.
Bankrupt Government Bankrupt builder what do expect.
@@dingosharp8353 Yep and the Labor Government built it but Liberals bought the land years earlier and that other piece of land stayed there for decades doing nothing. Government should made accountable.
@@Mav_F agree with you just look at the South Rd. South of the Anzac Hyway. The land has been purchased from all the business owners BUT they can't decide to go underground or do the same as the Torrens extension of South Rd.
Going to stand by what I wrote on another video. You're the Tom Scott of Australia.
You're actually inspiring me to want to create videos like this -- specifically for South Australia, at least. Although I'm still quite nervous about my on-camera presence and filming outside isn't something I've tried before. It all takes practice :)
Give it a go! - Do send me your video when you get one up. Thanks, mate.
Definitely the Tom Scott of Australia
Have you applied for a slot in Tom Scott's holiday period? I think you would be a good fit.
Ah, a fellow South Australian here.
Didn't expect to see you here Leigergaming. A big coincidence. Didn't know the Southern Expressway had so much background story.
Mate, get out there and do it! You don’t necessarily have to have an on-camera presence as long as you have the content. But either way, there’s only one way to find out. So give it a burl.
The more Aussie content, the better….even if it is from South Australia 😏
I lived in Adelaide 2002/3 - it was as much of an oddity and embarrassment as you say. Imagine my confusion on returning in 2020 when trying to work out which way it was open and missed the entry and went the long way. Still seems odd it goes both ways.
I think they made a mess of the new one entry and exit.
As a southern suburbs resident who worked just south of the city(2002-present day), the one way road worked perfectly for me. In fact, when the duplication was first completed, for about a fortnight, I kept missing the Sheriff's Rd exit coming home in the arvo. This was because I was so used to exiting the the expressway from the right hand lane. Being peak hour, I couldn't get across and had to got to the next exit at Noarlunga/Christie Downs, then cut back to Morphett Vale. As odd as the one way road was, it served it's purpose until times were better and the extra money(lots of it) could be made available to progress the project.
I remember driving on it in years ago as a tourist. It seemed a bit odd visually, but did the job OK.
To be fair it sounds lie a good idea providing its recognised as a commuter route. What is probably more embarrassing than a one way freeway? Spending double on a two way freeway but only one way of it is used the other is mostly empty for half of a day....
Sounds like the only embarrassment here was the politicisations couldn't line there mates pockets for 20 years building the other side.
Yeah, I found this a really cool idea.
In WA we're in the process of making our freeways "smart". From what I can tell, this involves traffic lights telling idiots how to merge, and reductions in speed limit when the traffic gets so bad you couldn't get close to it anyway.
But a freeway where the barrier dividing the directions moves to allocate more lanes to the busier side? That would be smart!
@@thegreentimtam They have roads that change directions in Melbourne. Electronic signs overhead tell you which lanes are open. There’s no physical barrier in the middle.
@@thegreentimtam They have roads that change direction by lane all over Arlington Texas. Directionality at any given time indicated only by digital signs. It's honestly confusing. They also have HOV lanes that shift direction on the east part of I-30 in Dallas. I'm not convinced either does a ton for traffic unfortunately though.
Must be confusing for some viewers who think Julian should keep his eyes on the road while driving! 😁
Self driving Tesla.
@@JulianOShea Oops, I thought you were sitting on the passenger side! I knew you were going to talk about the Southern Expressway (despite the thumbnail) because I live in Adelaide. Cheers.
@@TheEqualizer-iw1bz Just kidding, you were right - on passenger side. 😂
@@JulianOShea you should have edited the film, making the leftside right and rightside left. It would have been fun to see your fans flip...
I don't really see it as an embarrassment. While yes it is odd, it just shows that times weren't great. The government didn't have the funds to build the best road and the one everyone wanted, so they compromised on another design that served it's purpose with the budget given. To be honest I would feel more embarrassed about the fact that the other half of the final 2-way road costed 6x the price of the original 1 way. That's like making fun of somebody for buying a pre-owned car when they are on hard times, then being satisfied when the person buys a newer model of the same car for 6x the price.
This is the most informative channel...love it!
And let us not forget Flagstaff Hill Road which is just a stone throw away. A two direction road of basically three lanes, on which the direction of travel in the centre lane changes from morning to night. In the morning two lanes flow towards the city and in the evening two lanes flow away from the city. Just remember to always check those overhead traffic lights to know which way the centre lane is meant to be flowing.
This is the reason no one designs a one way road this video sums it up perfectly.
Great video as always! Keep it up!
Glad you liked it! Took a few takes driving up and down the freeway to get it right… :)
Can you do M1? It has a similar thing where the westmost stage of the Monash Freeway was build at-grade to save costs, as well as belatedly. It was badly adapted to the surrounding roads especially north, and caused massive traffic jams.
Also there was a bridge collapse, staggered tollway, Australia's first freeway iirc, and lack of a south-east ramp out of Gisborne to save costs plus staggered expressway out of Philip Island and Hastings.
Appreciate your videos mate.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks, mate. Glad you’re enjoying them!
Ah, right in my backyard! I grew up in Reynella, and watched this unicorn of a project from day 1! All I can say is - only in Adelaide 😆
Nice work on the story!
I grew up in Reynella too, but then we moved to Melbourne
@@danamummabear9799 it was a great suburb back when I was there. I loved it.
@@jakerubino3233 I agree there. When we lived there we lived in a quiet cul-de-sac and everyone was friends, it was amazing
Thanks for doing local content! Brilliant
I wonder how many foreigners are watching not realising that we have a right wheel drive, and how Julian is doing a bang job driving while not even looking at the road
Queens Road in South Melbourne/St Kilda area along the outside of the Albert Park Lake Golf course has one lane in the middle that changes direction depending on the time of day
Pretty cool videos my bro. Keep it up.
Thanks mate!
Thanks for not driving while recording, like many RUclipsrs do.
Was hard enough to do it in one take without driving. 😅
@@JulianOShea who was driving?
I grew up in Canada and it still causes confusion at times. Until I read this comment I thought he was driving.
I had no idea this was real. Keep up the good work.
it worked.... except for the stuff up with the Panatalinga interchange that meant you couldn't (and still can't) enter the expressway from the north without doing a big loop. You also STILL can't turn Left exiting onto South Road to head into O'Halloran Hill.
In New York, NY 878 Nassau Expressway is partly one way from the Belt Parkway to JFK Airport. Basically, it’s just a really long slip road and the other direction goes right to the Belt Parkway. Normally this might be a problem, but parkways in New York State and city do not allow trucks, so this is for cars only.
But the OBahn though, that is rad
Actually gets a mention quite often in innovative public transport discussions
Another reason why the northern suburbs are superior to the southern suburbs.
I was watching this on a TV and switched to PC just to see how many comments are there about not looking where you were driving!
I just knew since 3/4 of the world drives on the right side of the road and 3/4 of them thinks everyone does the same!
*And sure! There they were!*
That freeway was total frustration every time I came from interstate & visited my family in the southern suburbs.
Reminds me of roads that lanes changed direction during morning and evening. I do recall them in Victoria as a kid be cant remember where
how was this embarrassing its a genius level idea
All the plans for this road were made for it to ultimately be a 2 way road. Unfortunately by the time they got around to making it dual directional the work needed to be repeated.
And all the land sold for housing to be bought back at a significant price increase (above cpi)
A suggestion for the SA Great videos - the MFP - the Multi-Function Polis - that's all we used to hear about when I was at school - it was the future - out there on the salt pans at Dry Creek. What happened? I'd love to see your take.
I was talking about this yesterday while driving on the northern expressway lol. What the hell happened to it? I know Mawson Lakes is there now as the investors pulled out but a full story on it would be really interesting. I remember the comedy team on Fast Forward did a skit about it back in the 90s.
- description: "A 20-km long one-way freeway"
- German viewer thinks: "Nürburgring ?!"
As a german I got slightly offended that he is looking at his phone and talking into a camera, while he is driving.
@@eLBehmo yes I also thought that it is scary how he reads from his phone... until I realised that in Australia, they probably drive on the *left side* of the road - like in Great Britain- and looked this up. (just watch the animation in the lower left corner at 1:44-1:50). So, this is surely a car with the driver sitting on the right side, therefore he is not driving himself, therefore there is no safety problem here.
@@eLBehmo The driver sits on the right side of the car here in Australia so he’s in the passenger seat. We drive on the left side of the road.
I used it exactly once and only because I had been staying at the southern end and could use to to travel north towards home, all other times I would have used it I was going the wrong way.
Julian, I think you need to do the O-Bahn!
Great idea
Your share a similar style with Tom Scott, I like it
I liked it. Saved money and took the weight of the south road but I guess it's nice it grew up and is a real road now.
I drove the road as a visitor to the state in like 08/09 and it was confusing as shit and added tons of time to my drive as it was the opposite direction to what I always needed
very efficient. Gotta move house ... mmm ... what can I do on the way?
How about a piece on diverging diamonds? Many freeway junctions in Australia would definitely benefit.
Cost that much because the old side was re made, and the highway itself was extended to go further than Noarlunga centre, plus all the riff raff around Flinders.
I had no idea about this as a Melbourne resident! Very interesting (and definitely embarrassing)
No it's not. It worked and there was another road near by that people could use to the same destination.
@@Mav_F Embarrassing for the transport department maybe, I will never get why people get so defensive OR patriotic about shit like this, our gov may have fucked up but it did the best it could at the time and is not a reflection on the people here, no need to try and argue about it my friend!
@@4bidn1 well South Rd wouldn't be a huge mess today if the Labor Government didn't sell the land for peanuts to widen it back in the 1970s after liberals bought it land for a fortune.
@@Mav_F I don't care who's to blame or who did what in the 70's, we are now half a century on... Can we just hurry up and import fifty thousand meth'd-up japanese construction workers? That shit would be done in 3 weeks for probably half the cost of the current DECADES long construction projections...
@@4bidn1 literally what we need right now south road can't go on like this for another 10 years
This video was very stressful to me cos my brain kept thinking you were driving while staring at the camera all the time and reading data, and I had to repeatedly tell myself that in Australia you drive on the opposite side of the road and car (compared to where I live)
Have you seen what the expressway leads to once it ends into Darlington, Adelaide? An architects/engineers drawings when they were high on acid
(I'm not educated enough to know who designs the actual roadways)
Reminds me of the South Eastern Carpark in Melbourne. A bankrupt government building a half-arse solution to needed infrastructure. We needed a freeway we got an arterial road with traffic lights. Specifically traffic lights in an arterial road between two existing freeways. No only did it cost a lot more to finish the job a decade later but people were killed. I grew up in a Chadstone and watched this happen. City bound cars on the Monash freeway doing 100kph would race the lights at Warrigal road and there were many horrific accidents. Now the lights are gone, but the speeds are still low and the freeway hasn’t been free of roadworks in forever. I have always said that the Monash Freeway is always ten years behind on upgrades to meet demand. So it will always be a bit of a carpark. Thanks far thinking State governments….
You're forgetting a Labor Government allowed for it to be a freeway, and halfway through the project a change to Libs and the traffic lights got installed putting a stop light on Victorias progress as usual
Wait the M1 used to go THROUGH WARRIGAL ROAD? Thats crazy!
I hate to think how much it cost to have contractors maintain it twice daily for years on end. 🤷♀️
Imagine taking a wrong turn to the road
Ah yes, the Southern Expressway, where teenagers throw rocks at your car screen.
Back when it was built there was plans for it to latter be duplicated including the ownership of sufficient land along side to do so. Then governments change and they sell off the land to housing and finally later on decide that it should be duplicated spending significantly more to buy back all the land they previously sold off and then as governments do they blamed the previous one for the stuff up.
He never explained how the second half became ×6 more expensive?
Why not around the same as the first half? Or at most ×1.5 with inflation?
I go on it everyday as I'm in norlunga
How much did it cost to pay contractors every day before switching the direction?
Fun fact. All comments on this video are from the past 10 days....yet video is 6 months old
RUclips just found this video, as did many others. :)
@@JulianOShea really lol. How
@@southaussiegarbo2054 The unknown algorithm. 🤷
Well, what did you expect from a state that didn't make a tram turn right and preferred to create a second tram line...
Making it 2 way was the biggest failure of government communication such a waste of money.
Good to hear a politician being honest. He got it right when he put himself before the public. Just goes to show if you wait long enough you'll actually get to hear a politician say what they truly believe and admit to their own importance.
As someone who lived at the southern end of the Expressway and did not have to use it to get to work - it always seemed to be going the wrong way when i wanted to use it. when it eventually did open up to going both ways, everytime I used it, I thought that "this is what they should have done it in the first place".
Yep labor finished it properly. Liberal wanna ruin it all again 😂😂😂😂
@@southaussiegarbo2054 what are you talking about he just said the state run bank went bankrupt in 1991, killing any funding for the project. We had a labour government from 1965 until 1992 (barring two terms) one in the late 60 and one in the late 70s labor literally took the state from being self sufficient with lowest unemployment in the country under Playford in the 60s, and then sent us bankrupt and ran the state bank into the ground.
The libs get in and rightly so after Labor destroyed everything and were stuck with the southern express way project and no money to do it with. They did the best with a an incredibly shit hand. For some strange reason idiots keep voting socialist and central planning into power and keep wondering why we end up with failed infrastructure..... Rolling blackouts, Monarto city, bank SA, etc etc.
@@croweater6814 liberal sold off our infrustructure at a COST TO US tho.
E.g. sa power networks was called etsa liberal privatised it
Sa water was E&WS until liberal privatised it
Busses privatised by liberal
train and trams privatised at cost by liberal.
Labor built things and bring things in that make money liberal get in and cut them
@@croweater6814 atm sa has the worst unemployment rate to under liberal.
Labor has done far less bad then liberal
@@croweater6814
Oh I bet u didn't know this but under liberal we have had around 16million go "missing" from the state gov bank account...
And oddly each time it seems that a liberal members house has renovations done to a million dollar plus cost.....hummmmm.
Liberal wanna get our state to a point of everything being privatised.
Labor like as much to be owned by state as possible....
State bank was a different thing and our state isnt only one which it occurred to others had it to.
Imagine if they used that money for rail services.
The government could not manage a bank... That is crazy, then they build a one way highway... The people should vote on policy's and projects.
They were underwriting it not owning/running it. Big difference!
Cities skylines roads be like:
What an embarrassment. Another thing that is embarrassing is that Adelaide trains most of them run on diesel not electricity. Let me guess the state government has no money to convert the rest of the train lines.
We had the money but but bc liberal has pushed out gawler line works to much federal pulled the funding now. Who does the state liberal leader blame......he blames labor and covid 🤦♂️
There are always going to be diesel trains in Adelaide. The line to Belair can not be electrified due to the freight line next to it. Something to do with safety, from what has been told to me... Besides, how do you get the sparks back to the barn if they have a problem? And the overhead is down??? Where are the old redhens???
@@111jacare very true
@@southaussiegarbo2054 The Labor government wasted too much money and therefore ran out of it to do it when it was supposed to be done. Then when the following government started to do it the major steel manufacturer in Vic went bust.
@@111jacare I was going to comment about the Belair line. I do though believe that it is mainly do to the number of short historic bridges that don't have the room for the overhead lines required.
Everything in South Australia is done half arsed first time then years later has to be replaced by something elaborately more expensive than if they'd done it properly from the start
Pfft southern suburb problems.
Makes sense they'd cut costs, as back then the reserve bank collapsing was still fresh, and state debt was still insanely high. Then again, as a Melbournian who's spent a decade in europe, all of our roads are an embarrassment. 4000 km distances and 110 kmh speed limits....Especially love the m1/m3 freeways. 12 lanes, at times, of great quality road. WITH 80KMH SPEED LIMITS. Meanwhile rural roads up the hills with 100kmh speed limits where you can barely safely go 70.
Missed my flight because of this road.
This was always such a bad idea. Everyone hated dealing with it at the time.
Pretty sure looking at a camera and reading messages while driving isn't very safe. Also illegal in Australia.
Good thing he wasn't driving, then!
So is driving on the Right-hand side of the road
@@rajrigby8385 Oooh, Nice answer! Love it mate!
@@rajrigby8385 Love it. Though this is an appropriate video for that given that cars basically did that on this road until duplication.
@Va Sr it's not legal, however he's not driving which I mistakenly assumed.
It seems like it wasn't actually that bad, just confusing and embarrassing.
I wonder if they would have bothered building the 2nd half if the one way road was built in the era of ubiquitous GPS.
labor lol, insanity
just taking your plant for a drive eh? Given it's South Australia shouldn't it be a different plant?
sold in small bags... makes you hungry and music sound pretty good?
This guy knows what's up bahahaha
City of churches? More like City of Cheechin' lmao
Christmas gift plant. More legal…
Omg
Rather than looking at the camera maybe you should pay attention to the road while you are driving on a highway.
Ummm, he's not driving
@@enigma5376 He's sat on the left hand side of the car, in America, where the steering wheel is on the left hand side of the car.
@@Nysvarth He's in the passenger side of a car in Australia.
@@kashiichan Thanks for clearing that up :)
@@Nysvarth If you payed any attention you would realise firstly he's Australian, secondly he's talking about and therefore most likely travelling on a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN road and therefore driving on the correct (historically) side of the road. Therefore the actual driver is driving on the Right side of the car.
It's time thi video was removed, this video is a joke.
Why?
@@kashiichan Quite simple it is no longer a one road it is now a 2 lanes each way Expressway and can get you from the Southern suburbs to the in about 15 mli km ninutes with no traffic lights to worry about. That's why. 😊
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@@dingosharp8353 Read the title! The *rise and fall* means how it started and *stopped!*
Who's the joke here?
@@CaptainSpock1701 you are