13 May 2013

Leah St 25km speed limit; What's taking so long?


As most of you are aware the request by residents through their Councillor,  Bob Schnell, has been sitting on the Minister's desk. Tom Koutsantonis has now been sitting on this for over 2 months. We were told last Friday that their was a hold up because Council was yet to provide further detail on a particular issue. So after it sitting unread for months Council have now been asked to provide  a Traffic Impact Statement. This would be a major piece of work and could take months to get completed. You guessed it, Council will be unable to provide it until after September when the reduced speed limit would no longer be required. To me this sounds like just another delaying technique. Council CEO will meet with the Minister later this week to further the matter.

6 comments:

  1. Sounds about right! Delay so they don't have to do anything

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  2. Not surprising. Every time there is a request or a concern raised about issues related to traffic in this area we are delayed, redirected, ignored for months. Letters remain unanswered, the project info team refer it to someone else. no one takes responsibility. Yes of course they are delaying until it is all over. Unfortunately for all in the local area the delays in responding will cause us long term issues. Traffic is being re routed into the area and are finding the new rat runs which involve more and more local streets.

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  3. WhY? do we pay these people,when all they do is hide under layers and layers of B...T,quite frankly I have had enough, I am sick and tired of people in government taking the welfare and safety of myself ,my family, and my community for granted.
    Repeatedly they have shown how, money means very little to them,Who ? will bear the cost to Leader St, Leah Street, East Ave,when this project is completed,the damage is their for all to see, yet anyone with enough brains could have foreseen this and reduced traffic flow and traffic speed to minimised the damage to our community streets that I also must point out have only just been upgraded?
    If it isn't in their back yard it doesn't affect them.

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  4. Why is the Minister being blamed for this? Isn't it a council issue? They installed speed humps and resurfaced the roads just before the project was about to ramp up.

    Reducing the speed limit to 25 will not help - I think that if the trucks and buses go slower over the speed humps, the will be louder

    REMOVE THE SPEED HUMPS

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  5. The approval to reduce the speed is the Minister's responsibilty. A report will be tabled, at my request, at the June Council meeting into their effectiveness and effects on alternate streets that people are now using. Council installed the humps at the request of residents and had a lot of support at the time this occurred. However, I'm not sure what they now think. I believe they will be surveyed in the later half of the year. Residents in First Ave have expressed their concerns with a petition requesting further investigation.

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  6. Why are we even talking about reducing the speed in Leah St? Its an arterial bus route for goodness sake, always has and always will be. The council should be removing the speed humps so that traffic can flow normally as it used to - otherwise what was the point in wasting taxpayers money resurfacing just last year. Most commuters now resort to using side streets in order to avoid the rediculous and unessecary speed humps.

    REMOVE THE SPEED HUMPS

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