Page 1877 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 2 May 2012
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So the problem is that this street is likely to get worse and we need to have proper consultation. I have an amendment that I will move shortly, but I do not believe it is simply enough to consult with the local residents of Coyne Street and Clift Crescent concerning traffic calming measures, because it is also affects the feeder streets.
In Macarthur you can only get in and out on Carson Street or Jackie Howe Crescent, and they feed straight on to Coyne. Out of Fadden you come off Fihelly Street on to Coyne or you come off Bugden Avenue on to Coyne. So you have to talk to these residents as well; otherwise you are just getting a small fraction of the people who use the road and, unless we understand their movements and where they are likely to be going, we are not going to get a proper picture.
Modifying the street for the safety of the residents of Coyne is a worthy cause; the same with Clift Crescent. The residents of Clift Crescent in a way suffer the feeder traffic that comes on to it. Deamer Crescent at the Richardson end and Heagney Street from the Chisholm end also feed on to Clift Crescent, as well as the local streets that feed off it. So what we need to do is to have proper consultation about the area, because if the government, as recommended, goes ahead and does the further detailed traffic study it will cover most of these issues. Coyne Street is the other route out of Fadden and Gowrie at this time of the morning and the route back in in the afternoon.
My amendment to Ms Bresnan’s amendment would insert the words “and their feeder streets” after “Clift Crescent”. If we are really going to get an understanding, if we are going to make this work properly and we are going to make it work in the long term, let us do the work now and get it right.
On Coyne Street there would be 20 houses, but there would be hundreds, if not thousands, of movements every day on that street: the people that take their children out of Macarthur to go to Fadden primary school; the people of Fadden, Gowrie, Macarthur, Gilmore and Chisholm who take their children to Holy Family; and the people who come from Fadden, Gowrie, Macarthur back into Gilmore and then to Chisholm to take their kids to Chisholm high school. If you do not understand the local traffic movements and the patterns here, you will get it wrong. And that is why it is important that we add the words “and their feeder streets” because otherwise we are going to come up with half a solution. Yes, it will suit the people on Coyne and Clift, but it may lead to greater problems.
I have recollections of traffic calming measures on Learmonth Drive some years ago where we tried so many different solutions because it was a very important street not just to the residents but to the people who used it.
There is a serious issue here and I thank Mr Seselja for bringing the motion on. Coyne is a very important street. It is a small street; it is not a big street by any stretch of the imagination. It is a single lane each way. On the high side there are houses, sometimes with quite steep embankments and driveways, and on the low side it drops down into Fadden pines. This is part of the problem because of the camber and the twists. If you are heading west it sort of twists to the right and then comes back slightly to the left before you are confronted with a stop sign on Bugden Avenue. But, in the wet, with
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