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Old 9th March 2011, 04:45 AM
Ash W Ash W is offline
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Think the problem wasn't the barriers but the tightness of the turn to get onto the ramp. But good to hear they have disappeared.

One other thing I have noticed as a twice daily visitor to the airport (owing to my wife now working there and not having her own car yet) that has been poorly done is the exit road, in particular where city bound traffic merges with traffic from QBN. As you leave the airport there are two lane that go beside the fly-over. The left lane continues without merging but the right lane has to merge with the left hand lane from the fly-over. The problem being the merge is so close to where the fly-over ends that it is hard to see what is coming to merge safely coupled with the fact the traffic on the fly-over is coming faster than airport traffic. Of course the sensible thing to do is to get into the left lane, but if you are coming from the terminal then you are funneled into the right lane and if your a first time user, unfamiliar with the road you wouldn't know this, so is an easy recipe for an accident in the future.

Would have though the most sensible thing to have done here is to have the two lanes from the airport merge beside the fly-over and not have to worry about merging with the QBN traffic. It's not like the traffic from the airport is that heavy to actually need two lanes at this point, one would suffice.
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