Page 2132 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 8 May 2012
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Clarrie Hermes Drive the road widens to five lanes. I think there is enough community consensus that roadworks at the Barton Highway intersection was a good time to consider widening Karinga Drive from the Barton Highway to the intersection with Kingsford-Smith Drive.
We hear from the community consistently, and these are some more of their community concerns around roads and the things along roads. Sandra Smith of Macgregor wrote:
How come the ACT Government can spend millions of dollars on an arboretum, a statue of an owl, etc and yet street-lighting doesn’t seem to be of any real concern? Take for instance the Parkes Way tunnel under the ANU precinct where approximately 70 percent of the lights are not working.
Greg Jackson from Kambah wrote:
Bateman Street in Kambah … This street has no speed signs, and therefore it is by default a 50km/h zone, yet it connects two busy streets, Learmonth Drive and Boddington Crescent, each 60km/h stretches.
John Burke, Principal of St Thomas Aquinas Primary School, wrote:
In Lhotsky Street, Charnwood, we have a preschool, an early learning centre, and an afterschool hours care service. We also have a primary school exceeding 230 pupils, a parish Catholic Church and a new Christian school to be established in 2013 … However, with all these facilities being built or established, we are unable to have speed humps in place to slow down traffic on Lhotsky Street.
H Ponting from Greenway wrote:
I would welcome just one speed bump being installed on Florence Taylor Street in Greenway, adjacent to my home, where a group of P-platers cream off Athllon Drive at all hours of the day and night at high speed around an extremely dangerous corner. Maybe when someone is killed, authorities may take action.
We have seen example after example after example. We have seen the comments from Ken Wood in Holt:
The complaints of Spofforth Street having 10 speed humps are not exaggerated, as I counted 13. The three humps every 100m or so are large enough to slow short-wheel base cars but small enough to allow a bus to pass through at 50km/h. … It seems our powers that be will be like the dog that is going around in circles chasing its tail.
And what about road signs? John McMaster of Monash noted:
It’s good to see the ACT Government has found a use for the surplus 80km/h speed signs from the Gungahlin Drive Extensions. It’s put them up on William Hovell Drive!
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