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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 3 Hansard (10 April) . . Page.. 858 ..

MS TUCKER (11.55): I move:

That:

(1) the inquiry by the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment into the future route of the John Dedman Parkway include an examination of:

(a) the existing traffic levels on Ginninderra Drive and Mouat Street, Lyneham;

(b) the impact on the traffic levels on these roads of any transport proposals arising out of the Maunsell Study or the Committee's Inquiry; and

(c) the benefits and costs (including the impacts on other North Canberra suburbs) of extending Ginninderra Drive to Northbourne Avenue as a means of alleviating current and predicted future traffic levels on Mouat Street;

(2) the Government not proceed with the installation of traffic lights at the corner of Mouat and Brigalow Streets, Lyneham, or other associated roadworks on Mouat Street until the Standing Committee has reported on its Inquiry and the Government's response has been debated in the Assembly.

I put forward this motion because of the concerns that have been raised over a prolonged period by Lyneham and O'Connor residents about the terrible traffic conditions that exist on Mouat Street in Lyneham, most recently at a public rally that was held next to that street last weekend. Most members of the Assembly would be aware of this issue, as it has popped up regularly over a number of years. I first became aware of the issue when the Gungahlin external travel study was completed in 1989, but the issue goes back years before that to the development of Belconnen and the construction of Ginninderra Drive. For reasons that are unclear to me, Ginninderra Drive was not joined to Northbourne Avenue, which is the logical end of this drive, but was stopped at Mouat Street. This decision turned Mouat Street into the primary connection between North Canberra and Ginninderra Drive, despite the fact that the predominantly two-lane Mouat Street was not designed to be an arterial road.

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