Congestion has been eased around one of the capital's leading private schools with the opening of a $2 million second entrance.
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Secondary school students, parents and staff have led the use of Radford College's entry off Haydon Drive in Bruce after minor delays extended the work beyond the expected late April finish.
The new driveway began to be used on June 2 and allows a left and right entry off Haydon Drive and a straight entry off Battye Street, which leads to the Australian Institute of Sport and Canberra Stadium. The public shared pathway has also reopened.
Radford principal Fiona Godfrey said the response from drivers and cyclists using the entry had been favourable and congestion had been cut.
"The feedback has been enormously positive, with people talking about how travel times coming in and out of the college have been greatly reduced," she said.
"Good traffic flow and traffic management has implications for safety for our students."
Ms Godfrey said the works, fully funded by the school, were on budget, despite what she described last month as "what seems to be an inordinate number of delays and setbacks" to the opening.
Rainfall was credited as the main reason for the delay.
Surface landscaping was expected to be completed in spring, with about 10 mature plane trees to be planted to line the entrance together with gabion (caged rock) walls and precast concrete blades.
An application for approval of revised landscaping plans was still to be made, following an internal review related to the gradient of the roadside banks.
Gates will be installed about 50 metres up the new road to block entry ahead of major events at Canberra Stadium.
A temporary barricade will go up for the first time before the Brumbies' game on Saturday.
The approved plans for the driveway involved the clearing of about 30 trees in November.
Ms Godfrey said landscaping would return some of the native bushland.