Manly Observer has confirmed that there will be no northbound bus lane because transport expects traffic to ease with the western harbour link...... in 2028 if it is delivered on time...and then how long before more cars use it and traffic is the same?

The good news is that they did say the current northbound Falcon Street/ Military Road bus only off ramp on the western side of the interchange will be maintained, giving buses priority access from the freeway onto Military Road eastbound.  

The bad news is that, buses will need to fight with traffic to actually get to the off ramp, not ideal when more than $2 billion has been spent on this. Adding a bus lane would be a miniscule amount of the total cost - I'm told less than 1% of total cost.

Once a road has been built with no bus lane it is virtually politically impossible to take away a lane for cars to make it a bus lane at a later date! Witness Warringah road....

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PS. I made the image on AI :)