If you hate peak hour — spare a thought for the residents of Marsden Park in north-west Sydney.
Not long ago, the suburb was rolling green fields, but now rows and rows of houses are quickly being built.
The local Blacktown City Council expects another 40,000 residents to move in over the next 15 years.
Affordable blocks of land, and houses, make it an ideal place to buy — but the biggest problem with Marsden Park is getting out.
The rapidly expanding suburb currently only has one entry and exit, via a single set of traffic lights at Richmond Road.
"The government has released land and they have been very slow at best to build the necessary infrastructure," said Prue Car, the local Labor MP.
During peak hour, the choke point is leading to huge queues of traffic trying to move only a few hundred metres.
Some residents have told the ABC about waiting for 30 minutes to reach the lights, and then having to go on the rest of their journey.
"It can take half an hour to get out of this road to the main road," one resident told the ABC, while sitting in traffic.
"It's ridiculous this road, it's unbelievable," said a truck driver, also waiting and late for a delivery.
Adjacent streets also become congested as people try to get around Elara Boulevard, the main thoroughfare.
Christine Fuertes sees and hears the traffic every day, and worries it will soon get worse when a local shopping centre is built across the road from her house.
"The traffic here is just ridiculous, the traffic lights at Richmond Road are so quick," Ms Fuertes said.
"Very loud as well with all the trucks honking and blowing their horns and stuff, so it can be quite busy."
During the 2019-2020 bushfire season, father-of-two Matt Biermann discussed with his wife how they would escape in an emergency.
"If the entire estate needed to leave in a short period of time, whether it was for a bushfire or a potential flood, it would be extremely difficult and time-consuming for every resident here to leave by one road, at the one time," he said.
Some relief is on the horizon, with another road and set of lights expected to be opened early next year.
But some fear it won't solve all the traffic problems, especially as more people move in.
"I think it is delaying the inevitable problem with all these people," Mr Biermann said.
"We need the required roads and transport to meet those people," he said.
"What the community fears is that we'll be sitting longer and longer in our cars, clogging up roads that desperately need upgrades, but we're nowhere to be seen when it comes to the budget," Ms Car said.
In a statement, Transport for NSW said it ran a consultation with residents last year to better understand the community's needs.
It said measures to ease congestion along the Richmond Road corridor were also being investigated and prioritised.
It said it could not confirm exactly when the new set of lights to get in and out of Marsden Park would be operating.
