[talk-au] "Bad" directions on Outback roads

[Ewen Hill]

Back in 1990, Cyclone Joy (note to BOM - please check names first!!!) hit
central Queensland and as the water washed down the catchments, roads
closed and then reopened at various times. The coastal highway reopened
about 22 days after closing with traffic using a single lane. The year
before had been relatively quiet compared.

   During this, we were told by locals  naaah - don't worry 'bout the
runway mate, it never floods. The next morning 25% of it had disappeared
under the wet stuff and lost our emergency airdrop aircraft as they were
all parked there and couldn't take off. Things can take a dramatic turn
very quickly

  The key issue is that we have main roads where there maybe the dynamic
ability to close roads but perhaps after the event and then we have
councils which do not normally and have more pressing issues. Routing in
the outback is probably not real-time due to lack of mobile coverage and
the roads are still displayed.

   The city dweller, finding that the Highway is unpassable may still
choose the route less travelled called "Nine Creeks Road" and not suspect
there is a reason why no one else is on that road. Commonsense is not
something we can distil. The access conditional is good but has to be on
all roads outside towns for this to work.

Then there is climate change!

Ewen


On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 13:29, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> No argument at all from me!
>
> Just thinking of possible options :-)
>
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 11:55, Dian Ågesson <me at diacritic.xyz> wrote:
>
>> A further thought,
>>
>> Tagging permissions that open the road in certain times, rather than
>> close them, could also lead to better outcomes with less sophisticated
>> routing software/offline connections.
>>
>>
>> access=no
>>
>> access:conditional=yes @ (May-Nov)
>>
>> access:conditional= discouraged @ (Dec-Apr and dry)
>>
> & that's an interesting idea!
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
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Warm Regards

Ewen Hill
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