samuelp
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"Sam Goodard"
Don't move here. The NBN was supposed to arrive in Springfield Lakes. Springfield Lakes was supposed to be a trial site.
NOT ANYMORE!
It is now Goodna that will get the NBN.
Even though the NBN hub is at Polaris, Orion Shopping Town.
On top of that Ipswich City Council will charge you higher rates. That's right...higher rates for crap internet and a crap highway.
How crap is the highway? You might as well get out of your car and walk...actually you'd still be going faster than the cars if you simply crawled on your elbows all the way to Springfield Lakes.
The government doesn't do anything it promises. No NBN. It's unlikely that a highway upgrade or railway line will arrive either.
Living in Springfield Lakes sucks.
Hehehe man you have no idea, its just rubbish - the railway line is on its way. Also health city is on its way with NBN as well.
lol just saw this post... i've got very high speed internet and the highway isn't as bad as you say and yes i do travel on it at the times you suggest.
it's an awesome peaceful place to live and as such an angry little person like you should move out
I have ADSL 2+ syncing at 20mbit in Springfield Lakes (newer area too). The highway is down to 80km / hr at present due to rail works and I can still get to Brisbane City in the morning leaving at 7.10am by 8am (50 minutes) and from the City to Springfield Lakes at 4.30pm in 30 minutes. These times are very acceptable to me and are only going to improve when the rail comes online (meaning less cars will be on the road) and then secondly when they duplicate the centenary highway which lets face it, is going to happen.
There isn't any NBN coming to Springfield Lakes. Springfield Lakes isn't even on the 'within 5 years' NBN list. ADSL1 and 2 are just for the houses right next to Orion shopping centre and the uni. The bulk of Springfield Lakes has wireless that doesn't get any faster than 1mb/sec. Don't just take my word for it - use telstra internet to search for any street address in Springfield Lakes and you'll see the problem. The railway works aren't affecting the highway at all because it only crosses the highway once and they decided to build the railway in the air on great concrete pylons like a monorail and it crosses up and over the highway. So it has had a zero effect on highway traffic. The bottleneck goes all the way back from the highway entrance and up the hill to to the roundabout towards Coles and Carina in the morning because people can't get ON the highway. There was a total lack of planning for the number of people who live in Springfield and access to the highway. In the afternoons there is the same problem...people who are getting off the Ipswich motorway can't get onto the Centenary (just after the concrete pylons) and this backs thing up.
The congested highways would be acceptable if you were living in Brisbane, but Springfield Lakes is just outside of Brisbane and in Ipswich. If you buy here than you would expect that buying out on the fringes would mean minimal traffic problems, but it has been poorly planned.
NBN is available. Ask JB hifi or Telstra. we have ADSL2 and my neighbour have NBN.
Highway is expended, NBN is available, train line opened for 2 or 3 years already. Everything except for the traffic. Not because Springfield Lakes itself.
In the morning, the traffic build up from Mt Ommany till Jindalee bridge. In the afternoon, it from western highway to Jindalee bridge. Not Springfield Lakes fault. If you want to avoid the traffic, leave within 10km to the city, that`s where the traffic start to build up. Live in springfield lakes, only 15 minutes more than people living in Middle park, Oxley, Richland, Mt ommany etc.
so is this meant to be a political rant or a review about a suburb?