St Georges Road, OBESRVATORY: JRA SAFETY UPGRADE APPROVAL


Anonymous

/ #19

2015-08-30 09:17

I have seen daily, over more than a decade, how cars speed up and down St Georges Road (13yrs). St Georges Road is a main thoroughfare for many neighbourhoods. The traffic streams are incessant with various peak-hours, especially in the mornings and evenings.

Since 4 June 2015 we have seen thousands of industrial soil-carrying trucks speeding with dangerous momentum down St Georges Road - daily - in both directions - for the full 2.4kms that make up this stretch of St Georges Road - between the Innes and Aida Road intersections.

The obs golf course indicates that there may be as many as 6,000 truckloads of soil that will be dumped (most of it down st georges) - how much more truck-traffic are we in for, for how much longer?  Counted in both directions, that amounts to 12,000 opportunities for soil carrying trucks, only, to get it wrong and endanger others.

Will the golf course take responsibility for the impact of these heavy duty trucks, flying, as if on a highway.

Will the JRA do it?

Will the OERF and the neighbourhood do it?.

There is a lot of foot traffic (including children and adults going to and from school and work) - as well as people doing recreational stuff like cycling, running, walking, etc.  The speed bumps are urgently required as the trucks and other traffic have all but destroyed the road, and in this way we can save the road and the people using it.