There's no denying Maitland has a few traffic bottlenecks.
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In fact, we sent our reporters at the Mercury in to work from a different direction at peak-hour a few weeks back, and timed how long it took each of them to reach High Street.
More recently, an NRMA Rate Your Road survey revealed Maitland's worst roads and the results likely would not come as a shock to locals.
In the Maitland electorate, 79 per cent of commuters travel to work by car, with only 1.91 per cent using public transport to get to their day job.
While all this should be thoughtfully considered, perhaps we should take a moment to realise there are still some roads in the world with longer waiting times than the Maitland station roundabout.
Case in point, this 50-lane highway in China, shown below.
