Woy Woy rd closed.

Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Location: Empire Bay Australia

Just a note for anybody coming up to central coast , woy Woy rd has
suffered some subsidance in the Bulls hill section ,

News reports sugest monday or so for repairs to be carried out ,

Looks more like at least a weeks worth to me .

Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Location: Found

Meh, I was going to make the trip up to see a mate in woy woy tomorrow - can't be arsed going through gosford.

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:59 pm

dang. that sounds a worry.
by the time they do some geotech think about solutions if it has slid away it will be more then a week hey.
atleast nobody went with the road.

Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Location: Central Coast, NSW

id say they are being very cautious after the somersby one

Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Location: central coast nsw

I drove down that rd on thursday just before they closed it, the gap in the rd was at least 1m wide and half way across my lane i had to swerve onto wrong side of rd and just missed it, if someone had gone into it there was a 30m drop off the edge of the mountain.

Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Location: western shitney

anyone got any pics? or able to take pics?

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:17 am

yeah id say you will have a wait there.
they would have to retain the drop off side.
workout why it happened etc.
then fill it in, put down the pavement (after its designed)
then seal it.
the saving grace is if it is closed you save a heap of time.
atleast doubles the time when you are doing a road thats open.

but yeah sounds nasty hey,
old road, hilly terrain, heaps of rain.
you get that on the big jobs.

Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Location: Found

Where exactly on the road is it?

Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Location: central coast nsw

Froon wrote:

Where exactly on the road is it?

It's about 3/4 up the first big hill when leaving woy woy in the down hill lane allthough from what i herd from some one who walked up and had a look today it's got a fair bit bigger.
We'll see what i can do about pic's J top.

Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Location: Found

Man, thats the worst bit of the road - Can hardly say I'm surprised... All I can say is I'm glad I wasn't going down there at the time... especially the way I drive down there in the commodore. Razz

Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Location: Empire Bay Australia

Shame really , the they just re surfaced the the whole hill section there ,
The old surface was like ice in the rain .

im thinking month maybe two , the thing will need to dry abit before they start probing around .

I came down it about 3.30pm thursday , didn't notice a thing wrong .

Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Location: central coast nsw

Best i could do at short notice J top .

Dozoor, I came down about the same time and it was half as big as that you must have just missed it.

Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Location: Central Coast, NSW

the armco railing looks so fresh, maybe they disturbed it too much ?

Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Location: central coast nsw

As if we need any more delay's heading to sydney in peak hr, im not looking forward to the traffic congestion this is going to cause , i think heading the back way from gosford to somersby then onto freeway will be the way to go especially in the arvo the traffic at the intersection at the bottom of the hill in gosford is gunna suck.

Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Location: Empire Bay Australia

go the luxi wrote:

As if we need any more delay's heading to sydney in peak hr, im not looking forward to the traffic congestion this is going to cause , i think heading the back way from gosford to somersby then onto freeway will be the way to go especially in the arvo the traffic at the intersection at the bottom of the hill in gosford is gunna suck.

X bezillion

Will turn a 40min run to berowra in to an hour somthing Crying or Very sad

I need a tissue .

Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Location: Lost in Melbourne.

go the luxi wrote:

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fuk, wouldnt wanna come across that at 2am on a bike.

Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Location: western shitney

i wouldnt want to come across that at 2am with anything Shocked

Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Location: Central Coast

On Friday arvo i was heading up the Kariong hill from Gosford, from the light intersection at Brisbane water Drive and Pacific Highway all the way up the hill and just past the lights at pacific highway and woy woy road was banked up. That was on a holiday without rush hour traffic, imagine just how bad it will be monday afternoon when everyone who wants to get to Woy Woy has to get home via Gosford.

Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Location: Empire Bay Australia

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr cussing

One Hour Kariong to the Empire .

Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Location: Central Coast

Here are photos I took on Saturday Morning

I would say it's actually only about 1/4 up from the bottom of the hill, it's not close to the top at all.

But it all looks like clay - no rock at all under the road itself!

Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Location: Central Coast

Finally, some actual news about this:
http://www.expressadvocate.com.au/article/2008/04/30/5859_news.html

Gonna take at least 2 months to repair! I'm wondering if it'll take that long because Gosford City Council are going to pull their finger out and maybe actually do it properly?

But then, we can always dream...

Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Location: Central Coast, NSW

gosford or wyong coucil same crap, they think they are big fish in a small pond

Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Location: central coast nsw

There opening up 1 side of the rd ,not sure when but they had a few semi trailer load's of baracade down there today.

Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Location: Somewhere in NSW

I heard the same thing... but really.... goodluck to opening up half the road to traffic.... i can understand why, but seriously... is it really worth it if the weight of more traffic up and down that road collapses it even further.... could end up like another somersby if they do that.
I couldn't imagine that Gosford council would leave itself open to that sort of liability after previous incidents.

But alas, we are talking about Gosford Coucil aren't we!!! Rolling Eyes

Joined: 26 May 2005 Location: Sunshine Coast, QLD

yeh traffics been a bitch lately. its hard to believe that many people travel to sydney especially from the peninsula. But they do, and its a nightmare going through anywhere near gosford.

could be a while, have fun trying to come down thorugh a single lane on bulls hill. worst bit being is that every man and their dog is trying different ways around the brisbane water drive intersection that traffic everywhere is farked.

dean Rolling Eyes

Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Location: Empire Bay Australia

One lane was opened woy woy bound armsup

And a pre 3 pm run was great . Smile