Traffic bank-up on the Kings Meadows Connector

City of Launceston councillor Tim Walker navigates queued traffic on the Midland Highway near the Kings Meadows Connector. Video by Tim Walker

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00:00 So here we go, the Kings Meadows interconnector.

00:06 Stuck on the side of the highway.

00:07 It's 110km in our zone.

00:08 Cars behind me, cars in front.

00:09 I've asked the state government to do something about this.

00:10 For the last 12 months I'm on Cessna Council and we've got nowhere so far.

00:23 If I'm elected to state parliament in three weeks time this will be one of my first priorities

00:31 as far as road works go.

00:32 There you go, a car going past.

00:34 Now someone is going to get slammed from behind here sooner or later.

00:39 This is only 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

00:42 Nowhere near as bad as a bit after 5 o'clock.

00:47 This queue stretches back about 800m up to a kilometre along the highway, along the 110km

00:55 in our zone.

00:56 Here we are, just managed to get off the highway.

00:59 There's another 50 or 100 cars behind me.

01:03 All trying to get down, off the highway down to the connector.

01:07 Absolutely ludicrous.

01:08 It's time the state government did something about it.