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Some large trucks will be banned from using the Rozelle interchange to try to speed up the morning commute. Drivers continue to suffer through gridlock. One of them, a Hollywood star, has vented her frustration.

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00:00 A car crash, an oil spill and wet weather - all ingredients for a nightmare commute.
00:07 I was just thinking, like, this is not OK. It's actually really unsafe. It's a horrible
00:12 interchange. And just as I was thinking that, I felt the impact on the side before the car
00:17 flipped.
00:18 Despite signage improvements, the Rosehill interchange continues to confuse.
00:22 It's taken me 40 minutes to get out of Balmain just to get to the Anzac Bridge. It is a disaster.
00:29 It's dysfunctional, basically.
00:30 I mean, I've never seen anything like it. Living here my whole life, I've never seen
00:34 anything like it.
00:35 Comedian Rebba Wilson wasn't finding anything funny in it, now making a 15-minute trip into
00:40 the city 90 minutes.
00:42 But the transport boss insists travel times through the new motorway maze are improving.
00:47 It was 59 minutes from Haberfield to the Anzac Bridge on Tuesday during the peak. Today's
00:53 average was about 44 minutes, 45 minutes.
00:57 From tomorrow, large trucks from nearby tunnelling works will be barred from the interchange
01:02 during the morning peak.
01:03 They've been mixing it with commuter traffic in the peak hour, and that's one of the things
01:08 that has made this worse.
01:09 And the minister has again ruled out a toll-free period for drivers to get used to the Spaghetti
01:14 Junction.
01:15 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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