Notice to those who travel South along Kwinana Freeway Home

[miss_petepie]

Long story short, there is burst water main at mill point road that has eroed the freeway and freeway is closed at this point.

Suggest you call transperth as we've just heard that some bus routes are getting through whilst others have been cancelled.

Traffic is litterally parked atm and they are trying to divert onto Mill Point Road... we all know at the best of times its not really a nice intersection...

suggest taking another way home tonight.

-miss pie

[skyzerr33]

To all who are unaware, there are major traffic problems that have occurred because of two burst large water mains.* One is on the Kwinana freeway at the intersection of Mill Point Road which is causing major traffic congestion.* The Freeway is closed and will be all night as traffic is diverted into South Perth.* Traffic at last report was banked up past Glendalough Station on the Mitchell.

The other is in William St in the City which is also closed.* The combination of these has created havoc with the transport system as a whole throughout the outer City areas and personnel are advised to consider their best alternative route home.

and

Service Deviation notice: Bus Routes 30, 31 & 34

Message timed at: 2.30pm Friday 13 May 2005

Please be advised that due to a burst water main the Kwinana Freeway has been temporarily closed to general traffic. Bus routes affected by this closure are as follows:

Routes: 30, 31 & 34

UPDATE: these routes are currently being diverted along Canning Hwy and ARE NOT travelling through South Perth.

For those passengers wishing to travel from the city to South Perth please consider the following alternative public transport options:

Bus Routes: 32 & 106

Ferry - departing Barrack St.

and

Service Disruption Notice: William St

Message timed at: 12.45pm Friday 13 May 2005

Due to a burst mains water pipe, Transperth services that travel along or stop in William St in the city may be diverted or delayed. Please refer to the following notices for information relating to specific routes:

ALL SERVICES RUNNING EAST ALONG WELLINGTON STREET (28,81,84,85,91,92,95,220,213 etc):

Running normal route however delays expected.

ALL SERVICES RUNNING WEST ALONG WELLINGTON STREET (28,81,84,85,91,92,95,220,213 etc):

Running normal route however delays expected.

ALL SERVICES DUE TO DEPART THE WELLINGTON STREET BUS STATION HEADING SOUTH (30,31,34,185,78,23,107 etc):

Will operate from WSBS then deviate R Wellington St, L Milligan St, L St Georges Tce, R Mill St into Busport to resume normal route. The William St stop will NOT be serviced until further notice due to burst water main.

ALL INBOUND SERVICES ENTERING THE CITY VIA WILLIAM STREET:

Travel normal route to William & Roe St, then deviate R Roe St, L into Busway into WSBS (set down on A road), then exit WSBS, R Wellington St, L Milligan St, L St Georges Tce, R Mill St into Busport. The Horseshoe Bridge & William St stop outside McDonalds will NOT be serviced until further notice due to burst water main.

RED CAT WESTBOUND:

Continuing normal route along Wellington St, then deviate along Wellington St, L Milligan St, R Hay St. Stops missed include:

Stop 17 Central Park

Stop 18 His Majestys

Eastbound CAT per normal route however massive delays.

BLUE CAT:

The only stop affected is Stop 17 on William Street. Please expect delays.

enjoy ur trip hope u have a good book.

[miss_petepie]

Kwinana Freeway heading south at Mill Point Road is flooded. All

southbound lanes are blocked to traffic.

All northbound lanes open.

We are advising motorists to exit at Great Farmer Freeway or Mill Point

Road.

Restricted access vehicles are not approved to use the Graham Farmer

Freeway.

It would be prudent to divert Restricted access vehicles off the freeway

prior to the flooding at either Hutton Street or Leach Highway.

Traffic is extremely heavy on the approach to the flooded area.

Emergency crews are on site directing traffic.

there is a semi trailer caught in the middle of the flooding, right at

the mill point road exit southbound. It is fully laden with bricks and

stones etc and is sinking into the road due to the waterlogging of the

road surface.

[caminperth]

pics at south perth..

[dan_the_man]

South Perth

[caminperth]

wiked! where is that photo taken dan?

[skyzerr33]

photoshop lane como

[dan_the_man]

I dont kno but the guy in the red jacket looks like a giant

[caminperth]

with a hunchback... moo...

[Driver]

whoa

you never get to hear any exciting out here cos its closed off to the rest of the world

Oh and thanx to our sauWA's own news team - miss_petepie, skyzerr33

hehe

[ix9]

hahah sux2bu if you live south of the river and need the freeway

[Pva_Glue]

no south bound traffic bahahah

[uneekwahn]

it's nice to be able to walk home from work

it only takes 15 minutes ! hahahahah wellington street is backed RIGHT up.

[caminperth]

driving north was great... compared to driving south..

[miss_petepie]

watching it all from my building was fun too

[SeriesIIGTST]

two friggin hours diverting down to freo and then back towards applecross was NOT fun. (and I left before 5pm to try and beat the rush - HA). Good thing I got TV in my car...and all those people who thought i'd never get a chance to watch it...I'll have you know I watched the entire 5pm news on 10, all of the channel 7 news at 6 and still caught a bit of neighbours...

[R31 POWER]

I went thru that water at around @1pm today and was only crawling thru traffic for like 4mins.Everybody was going single lane style closest to the wall.Funny to see but not for the peeps houses.

[Pva_Glue]

damm I just got to 2nd home (applecross)

It was fun drving.. there was couple of cars on south bound...

[tigeryas]

there was also a bit of a pileup near UWA, intersection of Winthrop ave and Stirling hwy... i had to detour and take a scenic route thru Kings park just to get thru to Subiaco. I came out on the other side of Rokeby rd and cars were piled up to there. So that means the line on Winthop went from Stirling hwy up past Sir Charlies and past Rokeby rd. that was awful.

[33Spec2]

yeh i spent 2hours aswell it was complete chaos i didnt get anywhere so i got off on stirling which was really bad 2 and went the long long way home

i can honestly say that was the worst traffic i hav ever been in