Roads Minister John Graham says changes to the new Rozelle interchange over the holidays had transferred the problem further up Victoria Road,making the commute worse for some.
More than 16,000 homes and businesses were without power and traffic lights were down on Victoria Road after an unplanned outage.
The speed limit in WestConnex is set to be increased despite chronic congestion on the roads above the interchange.
Amid a chronic shortage of drivers,authorities will need to transport up to 60,000 commuters a day during the shutdown of the Bankstown rail line for its conversion to Metro.
Transport officials and police are bracing for Sydney’s biggest New Year’s Eve celebration in years.
Commuters faced extensive traffic congestion after three cars collided on the bridge this afternoon.
Residents near the Warringah Freeway upgrade have “basically been told to go away for Christmas″.
Chronic congestion on local roads in the last few weeks overshadowed the opening of a 10-hectare parkland on Sunday above the Rozelle interchange.
Missing links continue to plague Sydney’s bike lane network as a new project asks cyclists to name and shame the city’s most unsafe pinch points.
The interchange was built primarily to funnel traffic in and out of the for-profit WestConnex toll road. So traffic approaching Anzac Bridge from Victoria Road was always going to suffer.
Bottlenecks at the base of Victoria Road and City West Link have plagued bus commuters and motorists for a week.