Epping Road, North Ryde

Despite this being a six lane, well maintained road, it still becomes gridlocked during peak times – frustrating commuters heading to the city. Quite often traffic from feeder streets are unable to break through the line of traffic. While there are some homes built facing the street, many more have been built facing the street behind, to achieve some respite from the traffic noise. There is a huge number of commercial buildings now on the Macquarie Park side of the road, with Optus having moved there in 2008, bringing 3000 workers (and more traffic). Petrol stations, home furniture stores and Officeworks all live on Epping Road.