Barkers Road, once home to some of the most beautiful properties in Melbourne's inner east has become a mini freeway over the past 5 years. A journey from Burke Road, Canterbury to Kew covers no more than 4 kms but can take anywhere up to 30 minutes in peak hour. Schools go back every year around Feb 1 (after Australia Day) and the commute increases from 5 minutes to 30.

Speed limits of 40km/h have been introduced given the many private schools like Carey, MLC and Xavier which has further increased the bottleneck. Gotta love how a few speeding fools ruin it for the rest of us! For sane drivers, 60km'h is fine.

I don't know why people would want to live on Barkers, it is very busy, I cant imagine trying to drive out my house onto this road in peak hour and the noise must be an issue.