⚡MINI: Debate After 8 - South Road Is The Worst Road! 🚦

Is South Road truly Adelaide's worst traffic nightmare? Max and Hayley dive into a heated debate that will resonate with anyone who's ever white-knuckled their way through Adelaide's infamous thoroughfares. From unexpected weekend traffic jams to construction zones that seem eternal, this episode captures the unique frustration of navigating South Road's challenges compared to other contenders like Portrush Road and Goodwood Road.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
App Haley and Max in the morning. Right now we
are doing not that we're doing this.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
This is Hailey in the Max. After a debate on
Mix two.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Point three Okay one topic, Haley Pierce and Max Burford
head to head sixty seconds on the clock. Today it
is South Road is the worst road in Adelaide.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I hate South Road before we start the debate. I
don't like it. I avoid it. It's hard to argue
against it.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, but you do will every single road in Adelaide
to argue.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
That I debated in high school. It was quite good
at it to be their junior orator.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
All right, South Road's worst road in Adelaide. Affirmative, Max Burford,
you have sixty seconds. Your time starts now.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
South Road is a total nightmare.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
The road was already the biggest traffic magnet in Adelaide
before they dug up the entire thing like they're searching
for buried treasure. The stretch near Castle Plaza, there are
so many traffic lights it feels like you're driving through
a Christmas tree. You've got those giant manhole covers. Why
are they so deep? The one time you do get
to go sixty k's and now you hit one of those,
Suddenly you're like an extra in a Mad Max movie.
There's the trucks, the semis, the vans, the trades and

(01:25):
in practically big uts. These things are like rolling apartment blocks.
You drive next to one, you're praying the bloke doesn't
sneeze or drift off, because that's.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
It for you, mate, Rip in peace. Here's the clincher, though.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
South Road is the only place in Adelaide where you
can get stuck in a traffic jam on a weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
A weekend, the rest of the city is completely empty.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh you want to go on a holiday down the
south coast, Bad luck, you selfish pig enjoy a ten
minute standstill out the front of Bunnings. So yes, future
south Road is going to be great. Current south Road
is the worst road in Adelaide, No contest.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
That was really good.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Everything you said there.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
I was like, yeah, yeah, I agree with that. They
have traffic jams on a weekend. What are we doing anyway? Okay,
south Road is what about going over the overpasses?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, a crossroad?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
It is so annoying there.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Okay, South Road is the worst road in Adelaide negative
Pally Pierce in your time starts now.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
You think South Road is the worst main road of
all time, I'm going to tell you about port Rush Road.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Port Rush chooses violence, trucks, traffic lights, buses, private school
moum with their fancy fall drives and Tesla's all fighting
for a piece of the road.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Then there's Only Road.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh my god, the selfish pigs that park along the
side of Onley Road like a big ugly polyp in
at a norse blocking the park. I've had two car
accidents on Only Road, neither of them my fault.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Crossroad.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, oh, let's stop every forty seven meters guys for
a red light or a train waiting for people to
turn in and out of macas Goodwood Road starts off
really cute in the hills. Then suddenly you're into this
bottleneck trying to merge with seven cafes and a tram track.
And then a selfish pig is trying to parallel park
like it's their first.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Day on earth.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Glen Osmond Road, that funnel of people panicking about which
way and goes, which lane goes where before they end
up in the wrong place. You've got the freeway. All
of a sudden you're in Bridgewater Forever. South Road just
having upgrades. It's outed lanes, they're put in new traffic lights.
It's more efficient. It's definitely not the worst road in Adelaide.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
It is bad.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
South Road sucks, but.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's not the worst outside of Adelaida. Hailey lives on. Yeah,
May North Road. You could have given. You could have
thrown Main North Road.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
I did, but I didn't have time, mate, I cut
that out.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
May North Road's crap.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, I do hate made a lot of those big
straight Northern roads suck.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
They're like one or two lanes and as cars parked
on the side.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I'd like, do you agree is South Road the worst
road in Adelaide? Or maybe you've got another one you
want to throw into the mix? Thirteen one oh two
three help adjudicate this debate and